Efficient Device Management for our Thermal Mass Flow Meters & Controllers

Vögtlin offers a wide range of accessories, so that the devices can be operated directly via a PC with very little effort. In detail:

» Cable accessories for the red-y smart series

The free software get red-y offers a wide range of possibilities in context with the digital communication:

• Configuration of the serial computer interface
• Setting the program language
• Scanning and depicting the bus structure
• Integrating individual devices into the bus structure
• Reading the device-specific hardware and software versions
• Displaying the measuring value, the totalizer and the temperature of a device
• Setting the set values
• Resetting totalizer
• Selecting or changing the regulating parameter sets
• Setting the PI control parameters and checking performance
• Selecting the corresponding calibration data set (multi-calibration)

In addition, the following functions can optionally be unlocked:

• Data logger
• Mixer

The mass flow meters and controllers of the red-y smart series and red-y industrial series have a very large dynamic range and can be converted to a certain extent on site.

A measuring device can be reprogrammed with the help of our service department by means of the get-red-y software. You will receive a password (valid for one day) for enabling this advanced function. Please contact our service department for more information.

The device parameters will be configured in the factory prior to delivery according to the data provided by you.
The following parameters can be set changed with the help of the get-red-y software:

• Selecting the regulating parameter sets slow/medium/fast
• Establishing your own control parameters (PID)
• Converting the flow unit
• Converting to a different reference temperature
• Setting a start-up set value and/or a set value delay (soft start)
• In the case of the option of a configured display: setting the displayed measured variables
• For service purposes, additional parameters can be accessed by means of a (temporally) password

Open get red-y and after your device has been recognized, select the menu “Overview”.

In the above example the device has FW version 6.1.09 and the hardware board version 6.0.03 (often documented as 6.0.3).

More to release note device firmware versions:

https://www.voegtlin.com/data/vog-release-notes-smart-series-firmware.txt

1. First of all, make sure you have installed the latest get red-y version, see: Is the latest get red-y version installed?
2. Open get red-y and after your device has been recognized, select the menu “Extras” and “Firmware update”.

3. The latest compatible firmware, available for your device version, will be automatically displayed as follows:

Note: Only the latest compatible firmware available for your device version will be listed (in the above example it is version 6.1.11).

To update your instrument with the “New Available Firmware”, simply click on “update”.

Warning: A firmware update/ downgrade only support a 4-wire connection.

The following firmware/manuals become valid for your device version:
History
smart/industrial 3 – (beginning with SN 109999) – No update
smart/industrial 4 – (beginning with SN 110000) – smart_4.4.12.rfw
smart/industrial 5 (4s) – (beginning with SN 150000) – smart_5.4.15.rfw

from November 10, 2021
smart/industrial 6 (beginning with SN 160000) – smart_6.1.12.rfw
Software get red-y – Operating manual get red-y Software

More on release note device firmware versions.

1. Make sure you use the latest get red-y software version 5.7.0.5 or higher.

2. To downgrade you need to activate the “expert mode” on a Basic Get red-y License*, with a daily password, by contacting directly our Voegtlin Instruments Service and Support at service@voegtlin.com
*Your licence right is shown at the bottom right of your Get red-y window

3. Enter your one day password at :

4. Make sure your device has been recognized, then select the menu:
Extras > Firmware Update

5. Select “Expert Mode”, and in the Firmware list, e.g. select FW version 6.1.09 and click “Update”.

Warning: A firmware update/ downgrade only support a 4-wire connection.

Please keep in mind that the serial settings of your device and the get red-y  software (or your PLC) must be set identical to allow communication between them.
Parity and stop bits settings, in addition to the baud rate configuration, are only available for smart6 device from the firmware v6.0.14, and supported by get red-y software from v5.7.0.6.

Settings on your device:
First, change the settings on your device with the help of the Register Tool from get red-y 5 software. For the release of this Register Tool function, you will have to ask a daily password from our service department.

1. Start get red-y and select the question mark (?)

2. Click on “password for one day” and enter the daily password received from the customer service

3. Click on “Password for one day” and enter the daily password you received from us

4. Click on the right mouse button within the device list to open the context menu for a specific device:

5. Select “Register Tool”

6. Within the Register addresses filed select “Baudrate” (=register 0x5200)

7. By selecting the “Read” button the default value “5” will appear.

Note: To change Baud rate, parity and Stop bits, you will have to select a unique value with 3 ditigs with the desired setting from the table below.

8. Now you will have to enter a 3 digits value, and select “Write”

As the changes are not anymore only done on the Baud rate, we will have to use 3 digits that will always operate a change on all three parameters.

The register now has three digits, which control the behaviour as given in the following table:

9. As the default communication settings under the get red-y software are now different from those on your device, the Error message “interface change” appears.

Settings get red-y software (or PLC):

Note: In order to find the device via the get red-y software, the serial settings of the software must match the settings of the device.

10. Open get red-y software

11. Select Settings

12. Set “Stop bits”, “parity”, “baud rate” according to the device settings and confirm with Ok.