The Power Center 350 is designed to drive up to 16 UVC lamps up to 350 W. 8 ballast cards which 2 lamps each can be plugged into the Powercenter. A common power supply provides the high DC voltage for the ballasts. A bus card connects the ballast with power supply and the processor card. Each ballast card has is own microprocessor which can control 2 lamps. All ballasts have a hard coded, slot depending address, on which the master processor can communicate with the ballast.
All processors on the ballast are connected via a common internal bus (I2C) with the master processor, on the processor card. A serial port on this card provides communication with a PLC or PC.
An Ethernet card can be plugged as a piggy back. It can be configured with a normal webbrowser like MS
explorer.
With this card an Ethernet communication can be established between Powercenter and PLC or PC using
ModBus TCP/IP protocol.