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Serial Port Settings and Diagnostics
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Serial Port Settings and Diagnostics
If you want to control the displays remotely with RS232 commands from a computer,
read this section. For more information, see "RS232 Communication" on page 57.
RS232 is also used to upgrade the firmware of the Quad Input Manager Modules.
Diagnostic information is available from the
UNIT STATUS
and
HOURS
menus. For more
information, see "Diagnostics" on page 91.
Serial Port Settings
To access the
SERIAL PORT SETTINGS
menu, press
MONITOR
twice on the remote.
ASCII Response Type
Determines what type of data will be returned to the computer. For human-readable
text in a serial program, choose
SYMBOLIC
. For computer-read data, use
NUMERIC
or
DATA ONLY
.
ASCII Response Terminator
W
ill be determined by what your serial program wants to see at the end of every
transmission from the display.
Baud Rate
Must be the same as that used by the controlling computer. The baud rate is not
automatically set, as it is with modem communications. It must be manually set here
and
at the computer to match each other.
Note: For firmware upgrades, you don’t need to adjust the baud rate.
S e r i a l P o r t S e t t i n g s
A S C I I R e s p o n s e Ty p e S y m b o l i c
A S C I I R e s p o n s e Te r m i n a t o r C R
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