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Reference, Installation, and Operations Manual Upgrading a Mark II to a Mark III
3-9000-743 Rev S June 2013
What’s new In Mark III 301
• FEWER BOARDS. The Mark III consists of fewer boards than the Mark II resulting in increased
reliability, easier servicing, and fewer spare parts to keep on hand.
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ASIER FIRMWARE UPGRADING. The Mark III meter offers easy, fast firmware upgrades via the
Daniel MeterLink program and does not require a programming key.
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IRMWARE UPGRADE PRESERVES ARCHIVE LOGS. The Mark III firmware can be upgraded without
deleting existing archive logs.
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MPROVED WAVEFORM VIEWING AND EXPORT. Whereas the Mark II meter offered the ability to
retrieve a single waveform for each chord, the Mark III meter offers the ability to output a
succession of waveforms for each chord. With Daniel MeterLink connected to the meter
via the optional Ethernet, several waveform updates per second are possible.
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YSTEM LOG. In addition to the hourly, daily, audit, and alarm logging capabilities offered by
the Mark II, the Mark III meter adds system log capability to provide more detailed
information on the health and status of the meter.
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OG-OVERWRITE CONTROL. For each log, the user can select whether or not new records can
overwrite older, unread records.
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OMPRESSED XML-BASED LOG FILES. The Mark III optionally exports log data in industry-standard and
highly-flexible XML format. This allows the Mark III log files to be forward compatible with features
that may be added in the future. The files are then optionally transferred to the PC using Daniel
MeterLink in compressed format for fast transfers.
• CONFIGURATION CHECKSUM AND DATE TIMESTAMP. The Mark III meter checksums the
configuration parameters and maintains a checksum change date timestamp for easy
determination of a configuration change. Both checksum value and date timestamp are
audit logged for traceability. They are also Modbus-readable for remote monitoring.
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MPROVED PARAMETER CONFIGURATION FEEDBACK. When using Daniel MeterLink to configure a
Mark III meter, informative messages are displayed when trying to set an invalid
parameter configuration. For example, when trying to set a data point to a value outside
the point’s valid range, a message is displayed identifying the data point, the valid range,
and the invalid value.
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ONITORED SYSTEM TEMPERATURE AND VOLTAGE RAILS. The Mark III monitors the internal
enclosure temperature and voltage rails and generates alarms when out of preset limits.
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RY-CONTACT CLOSURE INPUT. The Mark III provides an uncommitted dry-contact closure
(configurable for logic polarity) that can be monitored via Modbus.