User Manual

Doc ID: BSEN
Date: 07-15-19
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4. General
4.1 Very rst start
Aer the installaon and the very rst start of the soware, the GUI language is set to English as default. This seng can be changed
to German, Russian or Chinese. In case the USB license dongle is not plugged or the USB dongle driver is not installed, the soware
will come up with a warning which can be ignored for the moment. However, you should consider to check if the dongle driver is
installed and the dongle is plugged. Without a dongle, the soware would enter demo mode which only allows to have a look on
the UI.
4.2 Soware start
Aer every start, a requester will come up and ask to select the connecon to your power supply. The conguraon can either be
modied or simply conrmed with the “Connect” buon.
Figure 1 - Conguraon window
The drop down selector should at least list the USB COM port of your device, if connected via USB cable. In case the device has not
yet fully started or has been connected aer the soware, the buon can be used to refresh the list. Aer clicking the “Connect”
buon the soware will try to connect the device via the selected port and if that fails, pop up an error message.
Demo buon: When clicking this buon, the soware won’t aempt to connect to the device, but instead open the main user
interface in demo mode, with a dummy demo device, even if there is a valid license dongle present.
In case the connecon aempt fails there are several possible reasons:
• If the device shall be controlled via USB cable:
a. The device is connected via USB, but the USB driver is not or not correctly installed (see secon „3. Preparaon“).
b. The USB cable is not plugged at all or not plugged correctly.
c. You have a device of a brand-new series and the currently installed version of EA Baery Simulator doesn’t support it yet.
Updang the soware should help here.
• If the device shall be controlled via Ethernet:
a. The Ethernet port which is set on the device does not match the one in “Conguraon”.
b. One or more double IPs have been assigned or the default IP of the device has not yet been changed to meet the local re-
quirements (all devices are shipped with the same standard IP).
c. The PC’s network adapter can’t access the device’s IP due to wrong sengs
d. The port in “Conguraon” is accidentally set to 502, which is reserved for ModBus TCP messages, but the soware uses
only ModBus RTU, so any other port must be chosen