Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review Vol. 48 No. 2 (June 2011)
52Multilanguage Center Console SC-SL3NAA i r - C o n d i t i o n e r S a l e s D e pa r t m e n t
Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration
S ystems Headquarters

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) center consoles are used for central control ofpackaged air conditioners installed in office buildings and other facilities. They are available in awide range of models to suit many applications, from simply monitoring and switching the on/offstatus to monitoring energy consumption of air conditioners.
This article introduces the features of our new SC-SL3NA series the center console of which
is an integrated touch panel controller with a seven-inch-wide liquid crystal display (LCD) that
supports multiple languages.

|1. Features
The Chinese version of the SC-SL3NA center console uses Chinese for the monitor andoperation screens so that users can readily edit the air conditioner identification names in Pinyin. In
the European version of the center console, users can select either English or Spanish as the default
language. A special PC software utility is also available to extend support to other Europeanlanguages.
[Common specifications]・ Seven-inch-wide color LCD and touch panel screen allows easy operation.
・ Monitors and controls a maximum of 144 air conditioners.
・ Up to 8 two-byte characters or 16 one-byte characters can be used for the air conditioner
identification names on the touch panel.
・ Up to 16 operations per day can be scheduled to ensure maximum energy savings in air
conditioner operations.
・ Eight inputs are provided to receive information from watt-hour meters and gas meters tomonitor energy consumption accurately and efficiently.
・ Help is available for all screens.
[Chinese version]・ All the monitor screens display simplified Chinese characters using fonts that comply withChinese GB standards. Users can edit the identification names of air conditioners by block
and/or group using Pinyin.
[European version]・ Display language can be switched between English and Spanish.
・ Special software utility is available to change the display language to German, French,Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, Greek, or Russian.

|2. Chinese Version Features
The Chinese display uses memory-efficient outline fonts. The device is equipped with aPinyin converter and Chinese character dictionary. This enables users to not only display the airconditioner group (tenant) name in Chinese on the air conditioner monitor screen but also to edit
and change it easily to a user-defined name that is easier to identify.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review Vol. 48 No.2 (June 2011)53|3. European Version Features
While the default language may be set to either English or Spanish, the character strings
displayed on the screen can also be in other languages. When the main unit screen display programstarts, it checks a file containing the character strings and determines which ones to display on thescreen (Figure 1).

Figure 1

Screen display

The character list file is editable. The screen display program for the center console checks the character list fileand determines which character strings to display.

|4. Character Changer Features
We have developed a special PC utility to edit the displayed character strings. Figure 2
shows an example of this utility’s edit screen. The input windows are separated by screen andmessage window so that users can edit the screen title, button names, and messages in another
European language corresponding to the English equivalents provided.

Figure 2

Editor for displayed character strings

The input windows are separated by screen. When a specific input window is selected, the corresponding screen
image is displayed in the upper left. English character strings are listed in the window, and users can enter andedit equivalent text in other language.