BACnet Spyder Training

8:00am - 5:00pm

No Cost - Class is Invitation Only

This 3-day course introduces Niagara certified students to the Honeywell BACnet Spyder series of programmable unitary controllers. The class topics include Spyder Installation, Architecture, BACnet Network Configuration, Control Program and Function Blocks, Check out and Test, Macros, BACnet Objects, Overriding Points, Schedules, ZIO, VAV Balancing, Lon and BACnet Common Applications, Migration, and Application Alarms. Students will get hands-on experience with lab exercises using their own PCs. Students must have previous Niagara and Spyder programming experience to attend.

BACnet Spyder Class Outline:

Discussions include various aspects of BACnet Spyder.

1. Spyder Installation and Architecture

a. Architecture layout (multiple Scenarios)
b. Installation requirements
c. BBMD
d. Foreign Device
e. Routers

2. Platform, Station, and BACnet Network Configuration

a. Bacnet Network config in AX
b. Ip Channel
c. MsTp Channel
d. Routers
e. Set Ip address on PC’s

3. Adding and Addressing a Spyder BACnet Controller

a. Adding Spyder Device Mac Address, Device ID’s
b. Spyder BACnet network Device Manger View
c. Spyder Device Configuration View
d. Set mac
e. Assign mac to database devices
f. Change device id’s

4. Physical Points and Terminal Assignment

a. Control Program
b. Loading / Unloading
c. Physical Points
d. Software Points
e. Simple Logic (Tstat)

5. Control Program and Function Blocks
a. DaTemp Control
b. Logic Not
c. Connector vs Constant vs Setpoint
d. Pin Slots
e. Execution Order
f. Intro to PID Block

6. Validate, Simulate, and Resources
a. Using validation
b. Using Simulation
i. Simulation Settings
ii. Force Values
iii. Overrides
iv. Ranges
c. Resource Usage View

7. Check out and Test
a. Diagnose Outputs
b. Download
c. Debug

8. Creating a Spyder Macro
a. Intro to Macro
b. Pass Thru Block
c. Composite Slots

9. The Spyder Application Block
a. Intro to App Block
b. Control Loop Separation
c. Multiple Apps

10. Spyder Library
a. Importing and exporting
b. SbusWallModuleApps
c. Saving Controllers
d. Saving Apps
e. Saving Macros
f. Using Library Controllers
g. Using Library Apps
h. Using Library Macros

11. BACnet Objects Overview
a. Understanding objects
b. Device Object
c. AI, AO, AV, BI, BO, BV, MSV
d. Assign Objects to AHU Drawing

12. BACnet Object Creation
a. Create objects
b. AI, AO, AV, BI, BO, BV, MSV
c. Discover Online
d. Discover Offline

13. Object Configuration
a. Object Configuration View
b. Advanced Button View
c. Global settings.

14. BACnet Object Linking
a. Spyder to Spyder
b. 3rd party to Spyder
c. Spyder to 3rd Party

15. BACnet Proxy Points
a. Virtual Ghost Points

16. Overriding Points

17. BACnet Priority Array

18. Schedules

19. ZIO

20. Spyder VAV Balancing

21. Spyder Lon and BACnet Common Applications
a. Library BACnet Configuration View
b. Library Lon Configuration View

22. Spyder Migration Utility

23. Spyder Application Alarms

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