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The turbine simulation software (it could be a steam turbine or a gas turbine) is very, Very, VERY basic. OR, the site needs the UCVx card for their running turbine(s) and it gets taken and never replaced.

Usually, someone (who hasn't made proper back-ups!!!) downloads something and causes it to 'break' and then because they don't have proper back-ups they can't recover and get back to a known, good configuration and then it's really just a dust-gathering piece of hardware. Hope this helps! They're fun for a while, but, really, they just sit around gathering dust for the most part. The harder part is configuring CIMPLICITY (and that's a whole 'nother task and story in itself). I don't have access to the Toolbox turbine simulator configuration (to simulate a running turbine-not just a Mark VI turbine control panel), but if I did it would have been an easy download. I have purchased a VME rack (from Schroff) and had access to a UCVx and a dongle and made my own hardware-based Mark VI simulator-time-consuming but a good learning experience. GE sold hardware Mark VI simulators to Customers, but I never saw a virtual simulator outside of a GE facility.Īs to how or where to obtain a Mark VI simulator, I don't think GE still sells them, so someone who has one and wants to sell it would be the about the only way to get one. And those dongles were rarely allowed to get out of GE factories and offices and into the field.

The BIG difference between the two types of simulators (hardware-based and PC-based)-to my personal knowledge-is that a special dongle (USB Protective Device) is required for the PC-based simulator. The PC-based simulator can also have the turbine simulator configuration downloaded to it (to simulate a running turbine-not just a Mark VI turbine control panel) which can be controlled and monitored from CIMPLICITY. As with the hardware Mark VI simulator, the configuration software downloaded to the virtual UCVx card can have a simulation function included that simulates speeds and temperatures and pressures and load and such, and CIMPLICITY is required to send the commands to the virtual UCVx and graphically observe data and manage alarms. Toolbox, and even CIMPLICITY, can be installed on that same PC and used to configure and monitor, send commands to and manage alarms of the software-based 'virtual' UCVx that has the turbine control configuration software downloaded to it from Toolbox. In this simulator there is a 'virtual' UCVx card that is in software that runs on a PC. The second kind of Mark VI simulator is a PC-based simulator. CIMPLICITY is only used for graphically monitoring a unit's operation, sending commands to the unit, and managing alarms. Toolbox is used to configure the Mark VI (the UCVx in a hardware simulator). That dongle can be the same one used for any HMI that is connected to UCVx in a Mark VI turbine control panel (real turbine control panel or hardware simulator) there's nothing 'special' about that dongle. I have personally used a PC with only Toolbox to configure and troubleshoot and commission a Mark VI, but that did not include CIMPLICITY which requires TCI (and a dongle). Toolbox is used to download turbine configuration software to the UCVx card, and that configuration software can have a turbine simulator function (simulating speeds and temperatures and such so that the unit can be started and stopped and loaded and unloaded just like a real unit to simulate a running turbine-not just a Mark VI turbine control panel) from CIMPLICITY displays.Ī dongle (USB Protective Device) is required in order for TCI (Turbine Control Interface-a GE proprietary MS-Windows background service that allows communication with a Mark VI) to provide full HMI functionality (data display, unit commands, alarms and events).

(But UCVx cards are expensive-more expensive than a cheap desktop or laptop.) I will call this a 'hardware simulator' or 'hardware-based simulator.' (I have also seen one configuration that used two (2) UCVx cards, one for the Mark VI and the other for the HMI, and that configuration required a separate monitor, keyboard and mouse to be connected to the second UCVx card. To my knowledge, there are two types of Mark VI simulators: One that uses a VME rack and power supply and a UCVx card and requires an HMI with Toolbox and CIMPLICITY to function as a turbine control simulator. I'm going to answer both questions in one response.

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