User guide

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About Us
HCT was founded in 1983 as an electronics contract manufacturing company, based upon the founder’s
extensive background in high-tech manufacturing, including senior manufacturing positions at several Silicon
Valley companies. Early in its history, HCT began a systematic migration towards proprietary products. The
Company anticipated the need for Electronic Controls for Mobile Equipment and invested more than $2M to
develop the DVC™ family of products, which began shipments in 2001.
HCT’s proprietary products have been designed specifically for the Mobile Equipment Market, taking into
consideration customers’ broad functionality needs, demands of the severe operating environments, and other
customer requirements unique to this market. The groundbreaking modular architecture of the DVC system
allows customers to add functionality, reliability and precision where and when they need it, while preserving all
of their investment in prior application development. Industry-standard communication protocols (e.g. CAN bus)
and HCT’s unique graphical, PC based, programming tool allows our customers to easily implement and
maintain Electronic Control Systems via this fully configurable, modular solution.
The patented Intella™ Software System is the heart of the company’s DVC product line. It was designed to
enable customers and channel partners who are relatively unfamiliar with sophisticated electronic control
systems to customize our products in the field with minimal training and/or support. Intella™ Software is a
comprehensive development environment for the design, development, testing, modification and support of DVC
system applications. Intella™ Application Libraries can be used as templates for application development. All of
this functionality is in a system that allows the application designer, application programmer and maintenance
programmer to operate within a single application development environment.
The DVC master controller module, with its flexible hardware and software, can run many applications as a
single stand-alone module. Combinations of DVC™ modules (10 modules to date, with different functionalities)
enable HCT to support a wide range of machine control applications. All DVC™ modules are packaged in small,
ruggedized enclosures. Each module is encapsulated to withstand extreme conditions in harsh operating
environments. The “hardened” enclosure allows customers to locate the DVC™ modules near the sensors,
valves, etc. they will control. This can significantly reduce the amount of cabling in a system and,
correspondingly, the cost.
We pride ourselves on producing cost effective devices that are rugged, abuse resistant, and easy to setup and
diagnose. We are able to respond quickly to customer requirements due to our in-house engineering and
assembly departments. We also provide turnkey manufacturing services for customers that do not require
engineering services. Our standard product line includes environmentally hardened hydraulic proportional valve
drivers, digital closed and open loop controllers, and user programmable CAN bus controller systems for mobile
off-highway applications.
In addition to our standard products, we develop custom products per customer requirements. Full product
specification from the customer is welcome, but not required. We often work with the customer to determine the
specifications for the product required to solve their problem. Our experience in the industrial and mobile control
markets speeds up the product design time and greatly reduces the occurrence of unanticipated problems.
Customer support after the sale is one of our strong points.
When you need SOLUTIONS for electronic control of mobile and industrial
devices think………. HIGH COUNTRY TEK