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Input/Output Channel Configuration
Step 1 : Please click on the “6051W” to go to the ADAM-6051W configuration main page.
Step 7 : Please go to “Communication WDT” to set up the communication watchdog timer setting. This
function is used for security protect, it means sometimes, noise or other reasons will cause the
communication fail, and the host PC won’t control the modules anymore, but the modules will keep the
latest output status, and this status may cause dangerous, so while this situation happen, the
communication WDT will detect it till timeout then reset the module and set the output to safety value to
prevent the dangerous, user can set the safety value by themselves.