GE IS200BICIH1ADB GE Mark VI IS200 Automation Control Board

Description

Product Model: GE IS200BICIH1ADB
Product Brand: General Electric (GE) Industrial Automation
Product Series: Mark VI IS200
Product Features:
• Bridge interface controller designed for GE Mark VI turbine control systems
• Integrates multiple auxiliary modules for analog comparison and signal conditioning
• Compatible with integrated gate commutated thyristor (IGCT) switching bridge systems
• Rugged construction with PCB conformal coating for industrial environments

Technical Specifications Table

Product Role & System Fit

The GE IS200BICIH1ADB serves a niche but critical role in heavy industrial automation — most notably as a bridge interface controller board within GE’s Mark VI IS200 family of hardware designed for turbine control and other power-intensive applications. This isn’t a generic peripheral; it’s specialized hardware that interfaces between high-speed gate drives (such as IGCT modules) and the larger control architecture that governs turbine operation and protective logic.

In the context of a Mark VI turbine control system — a platform widely deployed for gas and steam turbine regulation across power generation and large industrial applications — the GE IS200BICIH1ADB is mounted on a dedicated backplane alongside other IS200 series boards. Its primary function is to coordinate feedback and control signals tied to bridge converter stages, ensuring that gate commands and analog feedback loops are precisely represented to the control logic.

What makes this controller board more than just a printed circuit board (PCB) is the integration of multiple auxiliary submodules — analog comparators, voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), and FPGA-based logic functions that condition, scale, and interpret signals flowing between high-power electronic switching devices and the core digital signal processors (DSPs) within the control rack. The GE IS200BICIH1ADB becomes the protocol translator and signal arbitrator in what otherwise would be a complex and failure-prone electrical environment.

Compatibility within the broader Mark VI ecosystem is a significant advantage. Engineers working on turbine control systems appreciate that units like the GE IS200BICIH1ADB are designed to collaborate with backplanes, power interface cards, sensor feedback networks, and DSP boards without excessive field rework. This kind of structured hardware integration reduces downtime during commissioning and simplifies long-term maintenance planning, which is essential in power plants and large industrial facilities where outages can be economically damaging.

Beyond turbines, some integrators have found utility for this board type in other converter-heavy applications — for example, industrial drives or power electronics rigs that require coordinated analog feedback and rapid reciprocation with upstream controllers. In these setups, the GE IS200BICIH1ADB performs as the intermediary hardware that keeps high-speed switching and control logic in sync without sacrificing signal fidelity.

Throughout its service life, field engineers have recognized the GE IS200BICIH1ADB not just as another piece of automation hardware, but as a dependable interface layer — one that bridges the high-power electrical domain with the digital control world securely and reliably.