Equipment Touch

User Guide

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Contents
What is the Equipment Touch? ................................................................................................... 1
Equipment Touch screens .......................................................................................................... 2
Viewing alarms ......................................................................................................................... 9
Viewing trends ........................................................................................................................ 10
To view trends ............................................................................................................ 10
Viewing or creating schedules .................................................................................................. 11
To view schedules ....................................................................................................... 11
To create a schedule................................................................................................... 12
To edit touchscreen settings .................................................................................................... 13

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What is the Equipment Touch?

The Equipment Touch is a touchscreen device that you can attach to a controller to view
or change its property values, schedule equipment, view trends, and more, without having
to access the system's server.

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Equipment Touch screens

The Equipment Touch will display the system screens below as well as custom-designed
screens.
Screen name

Description

Standby

If included in the touchscreen file, a custom screen that displays

when the Equipment Touch has had no user activity for the time
specified on the Inactivity Timeout screen. The Standby screen is
not interactive, and as soon as you touch the screen, the Home
screen displays. If the touchscreen file does not include a Standby
screen, the Home screen displays after a period of inactivity.

Home

A custom screen for the Equipment Touch.

Login

Displays if the screen you selected requires a password. Enter your

password, then touch Done.
Each screen is programmed with one of the following password
levels:
A screen requiring this
password level...

Can be accessed by...

User

A user logged in with the

User, Admin, or Factory password

Admin

A user logged in with the

Admin or Factory password

Factory

A user logged in with the

Factory password

No password

Anyone

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You log out on the Setup screen.

You can change passwords on the Touchscreen Setup
> Passwords screen (page 13).

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Screen name

Description

System

Displays the BACnet device instance number, the controller's time,

temperature read from the controller's prime variable, and zone
color. Touch a button to jump to the Module
Status, Alarms, Trends, Schedules, Setup, or Browser screen.
Module Status

Touch a button to see one of the following sections of a Module

Status report: Device Data, Driver Data, Reset Counters, System
Errors, Warnings, Information, Hardware, Database, Network.
For example, the screens below show examples of the Driver Data
and Reset Counters information.

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Screen name

Description

Alarms

Lets you view alarms from the controller. See Viewing alarms (page
9).
Trends

Lets you view trends for points that have trending enabled.
See Viewing trends (page 10).

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Screen name

Description

Schedules

Lets you view, add, edit, or delete BACnet schedules in the

controller. See Setting up schedules (page 11).
Setup

Touch a button to jump to the Module Setup, Touchscreen Setup,

or Login screen.

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Screen name

Description

Browser

Touch a button to see that type of BACnet objects found in the

controller. Each screen shows a list of network-visible BACnet
objects with BACnet Object Name, Current Value, and BACnet Object
Instance number.
Below is an example of AV BACnet objects in a controller.

Touch an object in the above screen to see the details shown below.

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Screen name

Description

Module Setup

Touch a button to jump to the Set Time and Date or Communication

screen.
NOTES

A yellow value on a Module Setup screen indicates the value has

been changed.

IP, Router and Time Master do not apply to this controller.

Set Time and

Date

Touch the time or date field to edit it.

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Description

Communication

Lets you edit the controller's BACnet Device Instance number and
the fields described below. Touch a field to tap in new information.
NOTE Auto Generate Device ID does not apply to this controller.
The following fields pertain to the controller's MS/TP network:
Max Masters - Set this to the highest MAC address (up to 127) on
the MS/TP network. If you later add a device with a higher address,
you must change this field to that new address.
Max Info Frames - Specifies the maximum number of information
messages a controller may transmit before it must pass the token to
the next controller.
CAUTION Increasing this number allows the controller to transmit
more messages while it has the token, but it also increases the
overall time it takes for the token to pass through the network.

For a router, set this value to a high number such as 200.

In non-router controllers, use the following formula to calculate

this value:
[2 - (devices * (.002 + (80/baud))] / [(600/baud) * devices] =
Max Info Frames
For example, if the network has 15 devices at 19200 baud, Max
Info Frames would be 4.
NOTE You may need to increase the result of the formula for
controllers that need to communicate many values to other
devices.

Touchscreen
Setup

Lets you edit the touchscreen settings (page 13).

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Viewing alarms
When the controller generates an alarm, the following actions occur in the Equipment
Touch:

exist.

turns red. The button remains red as long as Active Alarms or Active Faults

An audible alarm sounds if the alarm was set up in ViewBuilder to generate a sound
and if Alarm Sounds are turned on in the Touchscreen Setup screen. Touch
silence the alarm.

to

The alarm is added to the Active Alarms or Active Faults screen. See table below.

To view alarms, touch

are displayed.

Touch
touch...

, then

or touch Alarms on the System screen. The Active Alarms

To...

Active Alarms

See all alarms except those that are defined as Faults in the
control program.

Active Faults

See alarms that are defined as Faults in the control program.

Return-To-Normal

See alarms that returned to a normal state.

Manually cleared

See alarms that you cleared using the Clear Active button.

Clear Active

Clear all active alarms and faults.

NOTES

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The Equipment Touch can hold up to 100 alarms.

The Equipment Touch does not display alarms for ZN line controllers.

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Viewing trends
A controller can read and store point values for any point in the control program that has
trending enabled. On the Equipment Touch, you can view trend data for up to 4 points on
a trend graph.

To view trends

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On the System screen, touch Trends.

The Trend Selector screen shows any points in the control program that have trending
enabled. To select the points you want to see on a trend graph (up to 4 points), touch
the appropriate box for the point. For example, for the zone_temp_1 analog point,
touch the Analog box.
Touch Next.
The Trend Scaling screen displays the Date/Time of the oldest and newest trend
samples in the controller for the selected point(s). Touch a field to enter a new date or
time.
Analog points only: The Min Y and Max Y fields show the range of the Y axis based on
the lowest and highest trend sample values for the selected point(s). Touch either
field and edit the value to define a new range for the Y axis.
Touch Display Trends.

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Viewing or creating schedules

To view
schedules

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On the System screen, touch Schedules.

If the controller has multiple control programs that have a time clock microblock,
touch the schedule object that you want to see.
Touch View Schedule, then:
Select...

To see...

Month View
(default view)

Which days in the current month have schedules (indicated

by green boxes).

Week View

Which days of the week shown have schedules (indicated by

green bars).

NOTE If you see Schedule editing disabled at the bottom of the screen instead
of Add Schedule, scheduling is being done through another application and is
disabled for the Equipment Touch.
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Touch a day to see the schedule(s) for that day.

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In the screen below, touch a schedule's name or green bar (not the Effective
Schedule bar) to edit or delete the schedule. See To create a schedule (page 12) for
field descriptions.

NOTES

The Effective Schedule is the combined result of the day's schedule(s).

You cannot edit a schedule's Type (Dated, Weekly, Continuous),

its Priority (Normal or Override), or whether the schedule is an ON
Schedule or Off Schedule. If you need to change any of these settings, delete the
schedule, and then make a new one.

To create a
schedule

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On the System screen, touch Schedules.

If the controller has multiple control programs that have a time clock microblock,
touch the schedule object that you want to add a schedule to.
Touch the plus sign to the right of Add Schedule.
Touch the Schedule Name field, and enter a name.
Select one of the following:
ON Schedule for an occupied period
OFF Schedule for an unoccupied period that is to override an ON schedule. For
example, a holiday schedule that is to override a weekly schedule.
Touch the Type field, then select one of the following:
Select...

To use the schedule...

Dated

For a specified period of time between a start and end date. For
example, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm every day between July 1st and
July 22.

Weekly

Every week on the specified days. For example, every Monday

through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Continuous

Continuously between 2 specified dates/times, For example, a

non-stop schedule that starts June 1st at 12:00 am and ends
August 31st at 11:50 pm.

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ON Schedule onlySelect one of the following:

Normal for a typical occupied period
Override for a occupied period that is to override an OFF schedule.
Touch Next to define the criteria for the type of schedule you selected in step 6.
Touch Save when finished.

To edit touchscreen settings

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On the System View screen, touch Setup > Touchscreen Setup.

Touch a button to jump to one of the following screens:

Screen

Description

About

Displays information about the touchscreen firmware.

Inactivity Timeout

Lets you define how long the Equipment Touch can have no
activity before returning to the Standby screen and logging
out the user. Set to 0 to deactivate this feature.

Sensor Setup

Lets the installer set up the Equipment Touch's temperature

and humidity sensors.

Clean Screen

Displays a one-minute countdown timer so that you can clean

fingerprints from the display window without touching
something that would affect equipment operation.

Key Click Off/On

Touch Key Click Off to turn off the sound when you touch a
field or button. Touch Key Click On to turn on the sound.

Alarm Sound Off/On

Touch Alarm Sound Off to turn off the alarm notification

sound or touch Alarm Sound On to turn on the sound. An
alarm will generate a sound only if it is set up in ViewBuilder
to do so.

Reload Firmware

Lets the installer update the firmware through the USB port.
See "To update the Equipment Touch's firmware" in
the Equipment Touch Installation and Setup Guide.

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Screen

Description

Language

If optional languages were defined when the touchscreen file

was created, this screen lets you select which language to
use for Equipment Touch system screens. If custom screens
were included in the touchscreen file, they will display in the
language that they were created in.

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Passwords

Lets you change the User or Admin password, if allowed.

Calibrate Touch
Panel

Lets you recalibrate the Equipment Touch by touching targets.

The device is calibrated in the factory, but time, temperature,
or handling could affect the calibration. Recalibrate the
screen if you touch it in one location and it responds as if you
touched it in another.

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