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Using a baud rate of 9600 as a basis in the above example, we can see that by
including the global status, zone status set, and device status set (gas levels and alarm
status) in a sliding window of 50 records per StatCast output, the impact is less than one
second. By examining the loop statistics at the bottom of the screen, we can see that the
actual round trip time on average for gas detection with this configuration has added
about one full second. The discrepancy indicates that the gas detection loop stats used for
a baseline were probably showing a time between 1 and 2 seconds, so the addition of a
fraction of a second causes the total loop statistics to crossover the next whole number to
2 seconds.
The sliding window size can be adjusted by selecting the item “# Records Output
Per Scan Loop” and selected a value between 1 and ALL. A selection of “ALL” will
burst all values per gas detection scan loop, and will typically have the highest impact
measurement. If the impact is unacceptable either because the sliding window causes too
much latency in data split across multiple gas detection scans, or because the impact time
is too large AND all records are desired to be sent per gas detection loop, then baud rate
should be increased. Remember when adjusting RS232 line parameters such as baud rate,
they do not take immediate effect until they are saved.
Once the desired balance of impact and latency are achieved,
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all settings should
be saved permanently to non-volatile ROM by pressing the “No Changes”/”Save Now”
button and allowing the panel to reset.
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Impact is the amount of time that immediately delays the start of the next gas detection data collection
scan loop. Latency is the amount of additional accumulative time (not shown) required to gather an entire
StatCast output of all desired records, measured in #scans required to capture all records multiplied by the
total scan loop time - 1.
Sensor Electronics Corporation Page 14 of 15 SEC 3500 OI- StatCast
5500 Lincoln Drive RS232 Gas Status Text Broadcast
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55436 Configuration Manual
August 2
nd
, 2006 952-938-9486 Revision 1.1