
Orbit 60 vs 3500: What Changes for Machinery Protection Engineers
What Orbit 60 changes compared with the 3500: architecture, configuration, alarming, self-diagnostics and cybersecurity, and when to choose each platform.
Configuration, verification and data-acquisition software tools for setting up, testing and maintaining Bently Nevada 3500 protection racks.
The 3500 software suite provides the tools needed across the life of a protection system. The Rack Configuration Software defines channel types, measurement parameters, setpoints, time delays and relay logic, and downloads the verified configuration to the rack.
Test and utility tools support commissioning and periodic proof testing, including setpoint verification, relay logic checks and documentation of as-found and as-left results in line with API 670 and site procedures.
Data-acquisition components stream transient and steady-state data from the 3500/22M module to System 1 or ADRE for diagnostics, ensuring that protection and analysis share a consistent view of machine behavior.


What Orbit 60 changes compared with the 3500: architecture, configuration, alarming, self-diagnostics and cybersecurity, and when to choose each platform.

How to set up thrust protection: float zones, two ways to set zero, setpoints from babbitt thickness and five field checks for when the alarm trips.
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