GE IS200BPIHH1AAA GE Mark VI Bridge Personality Interface Board

Description

Product Model: GE IS200BPIHH1AAA
Product Brand: General Electric (GE Fanuc)
Product Series: Mark VI Speedtronic Control Series

Product Features:
Bridge Personality Interface board for Mark VI Speedtronic automation
Facilitates RS-422 based communication and signal buffering
Compact industrial PCB suited to Innovation Series drive racks
Essential for signal routing between backplane and control boards

Technical Specifications

Product Role & System Fit

Controllers in industrial turbine systems do more than execute logic; they interface with numerous sub-assemblies, distribute signals, and buffer data paths across complex rack architectures. GE IS200BPIHH1AAA serves this central purpose within General Electric’s Mark VI Speedtronic control platform: it is a Bridge Personality Interface Board designed to sit between the control backplane and adjacent functional assemblies, ensuring reliable communication and signal conditioning in high-duty environments.

In large steam and gas turbine installations, Speedtronic systems orchestrate operations that range from startup sequencing and load tracking to protective shutdown logic. Rather than acting as a standalone controller, the GE IS200BPIHH1AAA functions as a robust interface layer. It routes critical signals between the CABP control backplane and other specialized boards like the H-Bridge and fiber-optic interface modules, employing standard RS-422 signaling to maintain clear, point-to-point communication.

This interface board is not typically exposed to plant floor personnel; rather, it lives within the equipment rack, contributing to a modular architecture that facilitates easier servicing, predictable wiring behavior, and fault isolation. In retrofit work within power plants or industrial drives installations, engineers often prioritize replacing or verifying this board first when encountering communication anomalies between backplane devices. Its position in the data flow makes it a critical enabler of system integrity and operational continuity.

Compatibility with GE’s Innovation Series rack systems emphasizes fit-and-function continuity—this board expects to slot into a designated position and work cohesively alongside power supplies, CPUs, communication adapters, and other control boards. Because Mark VI systems often operate for decades, that backward and forward fit ensures that GE IS200BPIHH1AAA can be integrated into long-running control architectures without demanding wholesale redesigns.