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Zlinx™ Radio Modem 

Model BB-ZP9D115RMLR-A 

USER MANUAL

  

Summary of Contents for Zlinx BB-ZP9D115RMLR-A

Page 1: ...Zlinx Radio Modem Model BB ZP9D115RMLR A USER MANUAL...

Page 2: ...B ZP9D115RMLR A Radio Modem i Advantech B B SmartWorx Americas 707 Dayton Road Ottawa IL 61350 USA Phone 1 815 433 5100 Fax 1 815 433 5105 www advantech com Documentation Number BB ZP9D115RMLR A_3919m...

Page 3: ...Class B computing device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial env...

Page 4: ...422 485 4 Wireless Link Failure Output 5 Radio Frequency Information 6 Zlinx Manager Software 7 Installation 7 Set Up 7 On Line Configuration 8 Test Troubleshoot 12 Firmware Update 13 Specifications...

Page 5: ...IN rail mounting Heavy duty wide temperature design handles most industrial power configurations and tough indoor outdoor environments Model Number Frequency Radio Power RF Data Rate BB ZP9D115RMLR A...

Page 6: ...4 wire 2 wire 2 4 wire 2 wire 3 No termination Termination 4 RS 422 RS 485 MOUNTING AND POWER Install on properly grounded DIN rail o Operating Temperature 40 to 85 C o Operating Humidity 10 90 non co...

Page 7: ...Out 3 Transmit Data In 4 Data Terminal Ready In 5 Signal Ground 6 Data Set Ready 7 Request To Send In 8 Clear To Send Out 9 Not used Note The DTR input is used to put the radio into sleep mode The rad...

Page 8: ...BB ZP9D115RMLR A Radio Modem 4 RS 422 485 4 wire RS 422 485...

Page 9: ...Modem offers a source PNP transistor output when the wireless signal strength drops below a critical level link failure or miss packets 40 mA maximum current Note In order for the RSSI LED to continu...

Page 10: ...ange of up to 22 5 km 14 mi These ranges are for line of sight installations using the supplied antenna Performance may vary depending on your particular installation The antenna connection on the rad...

Page 11: ...n included CD Insert the CD into the drive The installation program should auto start Follow the on screen prompts SET UP 1 Connect your PC to the modem using a straight through serial cable 2 Start t...

Page 12: ...uration Button Offline to configure the modem offline Follow the on screen directions Note using the off line configuration button skips the auto modem discovery process ON LINE CONFIGURATION 1 Click...

Page 13: ...dio Modem 9 3 Click the Auto Modem Search button The Zlinx Manager software will find the radio modem If the modem is not found the following screen will appear 4 When the modem is found the following...

Page 14: ...BB ZP9D115RMLR A Radio Modem 10 5 Click OK The following screen will appear...

Page 15: ...tton to save the parameters Click the Restore Defaults button to revert to the default configuration 6 Use the Advanced Modem Setting tab to configure additional parameters When each option is highlig...

Page 16: ...HOOT 1 The RSSI Range Test allows you test your installation Cross connect TD and RD on the remote modem before running the test 2 The basic screen shows test results and signal strength Check the Sho...

Page 17: ...s local drive 2 From the Zlinx Manager Radio Modem launch screen click the Firmware Update button 3 Once connected the software will determine which firmware versions are available on the PC and what...

Page 18: ...2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 230400 Data Bit 7 8 Parity None even odd mark space Stop Bit 1 2 RS 232 Connector DB9F DCE Lines TX RX RTS CTS DTR RI GND Connector Removable terminal block Li...

Page 19: ...pper Wire Only Size Type 28 to 16 AWG solid copper Temperature Rating 105 C 221 F minimum Terminal Torque 0 2 Nm Newton meters Regulatory FCC Part 15 CFR Title 47 Digital Apparatus IC ICES 003 Class B...

Page 20: ...A B C ET D OU DANS DES ENDROITS NON HASARDEUX WARNING EXPLOSION HAZARD WHEN IN HAZARDOUS LOCATIONS TURN OFF POWER BEFORE REPLACING ANTENNA AVERTISSEMENT RISQUE D EXPLOSION LORSQU IL EST DANS DES ENDRO...

Page 21: ...Write to non volatile memory _ ATCN Enter OK CR Exit Command Mode Method 2 Multiple commands on one line Send AT Command System Response OK CR Enter into Command Mode ATDT Enter current value CR Read...

Page 22: ...address to 0x1A0D and save the new address to non volatile memory 1 RT Command must be set to 1 in AT Command Mode to enable binary programming 2 Assert CMD Pin 10 is driven high Enter Binary Command...

Page 23: ...ata Rate 0 8 standard rates 0x39 0x1C9C38 non standard rates Serial Interfacing 4 3 BR 0x39 57d RF Data Rate 0 1 RF Interfacing 1 1 BT 0x04 4d Guard Time Before 0 0xFFFF x 100 msec Command Mode Option...

Page 24: ...rsion 0 0xFFFF read only Diagnostics 2 ID 0x27 39d Modem VID 0x11 0x7FFF user settable 0x8000 0xFFFF factory set read only Networking Security 2 0x3332 13106d KY 0x3C 60d AES Encryption Key 0 Any othe...

Page 25: ...No parameter 0x7D0 Diagnostics 2 RN 0x19 25d Delay Slots 0 0xFF slots Networking Security 1 0 RO 0x21 33d Packetization Timeout 0 0xFFFF x UART character time Serial Interfacing 2 3 RP 0x22 34d RSSI...

Page 26: ...ad only Diagnostics 2 WA Active Warning Numbers Returns string Diagnostics WN Warning Data Returns string Diagnostics WR 0x08 8d Write Special WS Sticky Warning Numbers Returns string Diagnostics Firm...

Page 27: ...Y Command Networking Security AM Command is used to automatically set the MY Source Address parameter from the factory set serial number of the module The address is formed with bits 29 28 and 13 0 of...

Page 28: ...fect until the CN Exit AT Command Mode command is issued and the system returns the OK response When parameters 0 8 are sent to the module the respective interface data rates are used as shown in the...

Page 29: ...meters Stored BD Parameter Sent HEX Interface Data Rate bps BD Parameter Stored HEX 0 1200 0 4 19200 4 7 115200 7 12C 300 12B 1C200 115200 1B207 BR RF Data Rate Command RF Interfacing The BR command i...

Page 30: ...yload Refer to the AT Command Mode section for more information regarding the AT Command Mode Sequence CD GPO2 Configuration Command Serial Interfacing CD Command is used to select read the behavior o...

Page 31: ...ontrol control the TX enable signal for RS 485 or RS 422 operations By default GP01 provides RS 232 CTS Clear to Send flow control AT Command ATCF Parameter Range 0 2 Parameter Configuration 0 Command...

Page 32: ...means an RF packet has not yet been received DT Destination Address Command Networking Security DT Command is used to set read the networking address of an RF module The modules utilize three filtrat...

Page 33: ...FH command is used to force a Wake up Initializer to be sent on the next transmission Use only with cyclic sleep modes active on remote modules ATFH will not send a long header if ATHT 0xFFFF WR Writ...

Page 34: ...module s memory after a power up sequence Once the Receive Good Count reaches its maximum value up to 0xFFFF it remains at its maximum count value until the maximum count value is manually changed or...

Page 35: ...be longer than the cyclic sleep interval to ensure that sleeping modules detect incoming data When HT time elapses the TX module knows it needs to send a wake up Initializer for all RX modules to rema...

Page 36: ...the duration of time during which the wake up initializer is sent When receiving modules are in Cyclic Sleep Mode they power down after a period of inactivity as specified by the ST parameter and wil...

Page 37: ...ally ANDed bitwise with the Address Mask of the RX receiving module The resulting value must match the Destination Address or Address Mask of the RX module for the packet to be received and sent out t...

Page 38: ...prevents all listening modules from transmitting at once upon conclusion of a multiple transmission event when RN 0 Note The actual number of forced transmissions is the parameter value plus one For e...

Page 39: ...ling Remote responds by sending the data from the Data In buffer following the RB RO parameters When there is no eligible data to send the Polling Remote will not respond The Polling Base will move to...

Page 40: ...s The Polling Base MD 3 cycles through a sequential range of addresses polling each Polling Remote MD 4 The base then waits for a response proceeds to the next Polling Remote Each Polling Remote respo...

Page 41: ...K If PK is changed to a value that is less than the current value of RB the RB value is automatically lowered to be equal to PK When BR 0 9600 baud the maximum PK value is 0x100 256d When BR 1 115 200...

Page 42: ...DI Buffer and either of the following criteria is met RB characters received by the UART RO character times of silence detected on the UART receive lines after receiving at least 1 Byte of data If PK...

Page 43: ...ort power levels on all channels If no parameter is given the channels are scanned one time If a parameter is given the channels are repeatedly scanned for that number of seconds The maximum power lev...

Page 44: ...eceiving at least 1 byte RB characters have been received by the UART RB and RO criteria only apply to the first packet of a multi packet transmission If data remains in the DI Buffer UART receive aft...

Page 45: ...is shared between PWM output and Config input When the module is powered the Config pin is an input During the power up sequence if RP parameter is a non zero value the Config pin is configured as an...

Page 46: ...used to set read the serial number high word of the RF module AT Command ATRT Binary Command 0x16 22 decimal Parameter Range 0 2 Parameter Configuration 0 Disabled 1 Enable Binary Programming 2 Enabl...

Page 47: ...varies Number of Bytes Returned 2 Related Commands SH Serial Number High AT Command ATSM Binary Command 0x01 Parameter Range 0 8 3 is reserved Parameter Configuration 0 Disabled 1 Pin Sleep 2 Serial P...

Page 48: ...parameter is not non volatile and is reset to zero when the RF module is reset TT Streaming Limit Command Networking Security The TT command is used to set read the limit on the number of bytes that c...

Page 49: ...in four significant digits A B C D If B 2 the module is programmed for operation in Australia only WA Active Warning Numbers Command Diagnostics The WA command reports the warning numbers of all activ...

Page 50: ...ive The warning is deactivated when the temperature falls to 100 C 5 Power reduced This is caused if the transmit power has to be reduced from the level programmed by PL Command due to insufficient su...

Page 51: ...on If the non volatile user configuration is not correct WR will re attempt up to 3x If all three attempts fail the command will return an ERROR alert WS Sticky Warning Numbers Command Diagnostics The...

Page 52: ...ilable API operation requires that communication with the module be done through a structured interface data is communicated in frames in a defined order The API specifies how commands command respons...

Page 53: ...Frame Delimiter 0x7D Escape 0x11 XON 0x13 XOFF Example Raw UART Data Frame before escaping interfering bytes 0x7E 0x00 0x02 0x23 0x11 0xCB 0x11 needs to be escaped which results in the following fram...

Page 54: ...specific data Refer to the sections that follow for more information regarding the supported API types Note that multi byte values are sent big endian RF Module Status API Identifier 0x8A RF module s...

Page 55: ...cket was transmitted successfully or if there was a failure TX Status Frames Note STATUS 1 occurs when all retries are expired and no ACK is received STATUS 3 occurs when a packet is purged due to a P...

Page 56: ...BB ZP9D115RMLR A Radio Modem 52 TECHNICAL SUPPORT USA Canada 1 800 346 3119 Ottawa IL USA location Email support advantech bb com Web www advantech com Documentation Number BB ZP9D115RMLR A_3919m...

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