Chapter 3
Hardware and Software Configuration
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4.
Click
Channel Configuration
to access the Channel Configuration
dialog box. In the following figure, an FP-TC-120 thermocouple
module is selected.
Note
Configuration options are module dependent. The options listed here might not be
available for your particular module.
Make your selections in this dialog box as follows:
a.
Select the type of channel to show, then select the channel(s) that
you want to change. To select more than one channel, clear the
One channel at a time
checkbox.
b.
Set the range and output values of the selected channel(s).
c.
Set the deadband for data communication over the network.
The deadband setting is a percentage of the full-scale range.
Note
A deadband for analog or count channels is applied to the data in determining
whether the data is transmitted to devices on the network. The deadband is not applied to
embedded FieldPoint VIs accessing channels on I/O modules attached to the FP-20
xx
.
However, using DataSocket to access channels on the attached I/O modules is considered
a network transmission, and the deadband is applied.