48VCD-1 - 48V Telecom Battery Monitor (Rev A-101) PDF
48VCD-1 - 48V Telecom Battery Monitor (Rev A-101) PDF
The first step is to connect your 48VCD-1 to the WeatherGoose unit. When you look at the 48VCD-1 device,
youll see a set of wires coming out of each end:
TO ANALOG-SENSOR
INPUT TERMINALS
TO BATTERY
One pair consists of two heavier-gauge wires, one red and one black, ending in ring terminals; this pair
connects to the battery or batteries that you wish to monitor. The red wire connects to the (+) battery terminal,
while the black wire connects to the () terminal.
The other wire pair consists of two thinner wires, also one red and one black, encased in white outer insulation.
This is the signal pair, which connects to the WeatherGooses analog-input terminals or to an appropriatelyprogrammed CCAT interface, depending on your installation and Goose model; this connection will be shown in
more detail in the following sections.
PLEASE NOTE THAT POLARITY IS IMPORTANT! While the device is protected against backwards
connections, you will not get the correct readings from the device if either the battery pair or the signal pair are
connected improperly.
One of the protections included inside the device is a self-resetting fuse; in the unlikely event that an incorrect
hookup results in a short circuit through the device, the fuse will open up to a high resistance to effectively cut
off the current flow. If this happens, the fuse may take several seconds to reset once the voltage is disconnected,
so if you hook up the 48VCD-1 and get no readings (or nonsense readings) from it, disconnect the device and let
it rest for about 10~15 seconds before trying to reconnect it, to give the fuse time to reset itself.
The input range of the device is 16 ~ 60VDC, to provide sufficient overhead for increased voltage across
the batteries during the charging cycle. Note that the 48VCD-1s measurement circuitry is powered from the
batteries it is connected to, so the batteries need to have a charge of at least 16V in order for the 48VCD-1 to
operate; if the battery voltage falls below that level, the device will not operate correctly and will either read 0V,
or give unstable readings that jump randomly between 0V and the incoming voltage level.
The illustration below shows a (much simplified) example of how to connect the 48VCD-1 to a battery bank
and charger. Here, each battery is a 24-volt deep-cycle lead-acid battery, with the six batteries wired in a
series-parallel combination; each pair of 24V batteries wired in series (via the blue wires) provides 48V (with the
positive side going to ground), and the three pairs wired in parallel (via the red and black wires) provide increased
current capacity. The 48VCD-1, connected across the paralleled sets, monitors the voltage of the battery bank as
a whole.
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earth
ground
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TO ANALOG-SENSOR
INPUT TERMINALS
The graph shown below demonstrates the range of displayed readings vs. battery voltage typical of the
48VCD-1 Telecom Battery Monitor when it is connected directly to the Analog Input terminals of a
WeatherGoose monitoring system.
99
90
80
70
60
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30
20
sensor does not
and
thresholds to the
If, for some reason, you wish to only monitor for the over-voltage condition, and not for under-voltage, then
set the
threshold to the desired voltage limit, and set the
threshold to -10 to disable it.
CCAT-48
BK
48VCD-1
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and
thresholds to the
If, for some reason, you wish to only monitor for the over-voltage condition, and not for under-voltage, then
set the
threshold to the desired voltage limit, and set the
threshold to 99. Since the reading on
a CCAT-48 can never exceed 0 (i.e. go into positive voltages), this will disable the High Trip event, which is not
needed if you are only interested in overvoltage.
When setting your thresholds, be sure to take into account the strict mathematics behavior of the
WeatherGoose unit, as described in the section above; this behavior applies to both series-I and series-II devices.
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The Rev.A models behavior is otherwise identical to that of the Rev.B, so the rest of the information in this
user guide can be followed without modification when it comes to alarm settings and sensor-page readings.
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connection via
the built-in
AnalogInput
terminals
connection via
the CCAT-48
CCAT-48
green wire goes into the terminal marked BK or (-)
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