Product And Functional Overview - ABB i-bus KNX Product Manual

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ABB i-bus KNX
General
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Product and functional overview

The group-orientated KNX DALI Gateway DGN/S 1.16.1 is a modular installation device in ProM design.
Up to 64 DALI devices can be connected to a DALI output. These 64 DALI devices can be divided into up
to 16 lighting groups. Every lighting group can be independently switched, dimmed and a brightness value
can be set via the KNX. For each group, a KNX communication object is available for indicating a lamp,
ballast or the combination of lamp and ballast fault on the KNX. The fault status of an individual device can
also be signalled or queried via coded communication objects. Furthermore, the functions Scene (up to
14), Staircase lighting, Slave and Sequence are available.
The special feature of the DGN/S 1.16.1 is that DALI emergency lighting converters can also be connected
as DALI devices. A DALI emergency lighting converter is a DALI device, which monitors and tests the sta-
te of an individual battery of an emergency lighting device and that provides the information via standard-
ized DALI telegrams compliant to EN 62 386-202. The DALI Gateway with Emergency Lighting Function
DGN/S 1.16.1 evaluates this information and sends it on the KNX.
A self-contained emergency lighting can have
two DALI devices (ballast and emergency lighting converter) or
one DALI device, which features the function of the emergency lighting converter and the control of
the lighting equipment, usually LEDs.
In the first case, the DGN/S 1.16.1 controls a maximum of 32 emergency lights, as the DALI standard lim-
its the number of DALI devices to 64 DALI devices. In the second case, DALI emergency lighting convert-
ers with two functions as a DALI device can connect up to 64 emergency lights to the DGN/S.
Access to the individual devices for the determined individual functionalities is possible. In the case of mo-
nitoring of individual lamps or batteries, the information is available as coded KNX telegrams that are up to
4 bytes in length.
The DGN/S 1.16.1 does not support overlapping DALI lighting groups. Cross-lighting groups should be
formed by KNX group addressing. Furthermore, it is possible to commonly control all DALI devices con-
nected to a DALI output via DALI output telegrams (DALI broadcast control).
The DALI power supply for the 64 DALI devices is integrated into the DGN/S 1.16.1.
Readdressing of the DALI devices and the assignment of the 64 DALI devices into 16 lighting groups is
implemented in an ETS independent DALI-Software-Tool, so that for example, a facility manager without
ETS knowledge is capable of exchanging and reassigning DALI devices, should maintenance be required.
Furthermore, the error states of the individual DALI devices and/or lighting groups are represented graphi-
cally with the DALI-Software-Tool.
The setting of the parameters and allocation of the group addresses is implemented primarily with the En-
gineering Tool Software ETS. The most up-to-date version should be used. The minimum requirement is
version ETS2 V1.3.
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