Kp-300 overview – Gilderfluke&Co KP-300 Smart Brick Control Panel User Manual
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Kp-300 Overview
The Kp-300 features fifteen safety inputs, plus an onboard
that can be used to lock the system. All the safety inputs are ʻfail safeʼ (they
want to see a closure on them and will be triggered by any wire break). With the one ex-
ception of the
on the Kp-300, each safety input can be in-
dividually set to force the system to:
Enter an E-Stop condition
Pause the show
Turn the HPU off (if there is one)
The
on the Kp-300 always force an E-Stop condition.
More safety inputs can be added if needed using the Kp-300 Expansion.
Safety inputs that trigger an E-Stop condition normally include only critical sensors.
An example of these would be a low hydraulic fluid level sensor. If the motion base is
running low on oil, this would trigger an immediate E-Stop, and as long as the oil level
remained low, the Kp-300 would not let you start the HPU. All E-Stops turn the HPU off.
The show always has to be started over from the beginning after an E-Stop.
A pause input is used for less critical sensors. An example of this is where a seat belt
was opened by a rider. The show would instantly be paused and could only be contin-
ued by the operator when the condition that caused the pause had been cleared. Alter-
natively, if after the pause was triggered the operator deemed it necessary to evacuate
the attraction, he could call up a show that parks the motion base or just E-Stop it to
bring it home.
Door sensors are actually a point where a pause is generally safer to use than a full
E-Stop. If a door is opened, instead of returning to home position the motion base will
just freeze. This is less likely to take a leg off someone who is trying to step through the
door.
are available from the motion profile program. These are used to
temporarily disable inputs that might otherwise cause an error condition to be flagged.
An example of their use is on the door sensors. During the motion base ʻflightʼ, a door
sensor should trigger an error condition (either a pause or E-Stop), but during the Load/
Unload times it should not. For this reason this input would be bypassed during Load/
Unload times by one of the two
.
Seat belt logging allows any input which has been wired to a seat belt to be ignored
once it has been logged as an unoccupied seat. The seat belt logging can be done from
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