Rain Bird WS-PRO, Installation, Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

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type, on the screen then the Short
Haul Modem has a problem or the
COM port and needs to be replaced.
FIGURE 25 - TEST OF SHORT HAUL MODEM
Second: After having determined, with
the test above that the RAD modem
at the computer is “Good” - you
can then check to see if the
communication path, between the
computer and the weather station is
“Good”.
•
Re-connect the field
communication wires to the RAD
modem output terminals, of the
RAD modem at the central
computer location.
•
At the Weather Station, disconnect
the communication wires from the
MSP-1 pipe surge arrestors and tie
the wires together as shown in
FIGURE 26 below.
•
With the Rain Bird Weather
Software, go to the Main Menu and
set the “capital lock” on the
keyboard of the computer.
•
Be sure to configure a direct connect
weather station.
•
Press a capital [ W ] from the Main
Menu screen.
•
If a security number is asked for use
[
6275 ].
•
Choose a direct connect station and
the screen will go “BLANK”.
•
Assuming you have connected the
communication wires correctly at the
weather station end, as shown in
FIGURE 26 below, what you type at
the computer will be echoed back to
the computer screen. Testing in this
way will verify that the
communication wiring is “Good”.
If you so not see the characters on
the screen, that you have typed,
then you know that there is a
problem with the communication
wiring.