The Basics
Issuing Commands to the Sensor
SKF Wireless Machine Condition Sensor
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Service Manual
Software Commands
After the Device Manager software is installed and operational, you can issue some
standard procedure commands to the sensors with it. Select a sensor item in the
hierarchy, and then go to the
Device
tab.
Figure 3
.
Sensor
/
Device
Tab, Commands to Sensors.
Flash LED
– Click this button to cause the connected wireless sensor’s LED to flash ten
times. This can be useful if you need to identify a device in the network or check
communication.
Reset Device
– Click this button to reset the sensor. If the sensor is connected to the
Device Manager software, resetting the sensor is similar to rebooting a computer; it
helps to clear issues with the device. Note that the sensor will drop off the network, and
then rejoin the network, which takes some time
- more time the larger the network.
Reset Pipe
– If the network manager fails to reassign the
function, you can
click this button to de-allocate the fast pipe from this sensor so the gateway can
reassign the resource to other sensors as needed. However, the preferred method is to
set the fast pipe on the P+F gateway’s Operating Modes web page.
IMPORTANT:
You can verify a sensor’s fast pipe assignment on the P+F gateway’s
Operating Modes
web page. A failure of fast pipe assignment is indicated when a
sensor directly connected to the gateway takes more than two minutes to complete
collecting a waveform.
IMPORTANT
: Also on the
Sensor
/
Device
tab, entering the
Machine Speed
for
the sensor is recommended. The value is exported to Analyst for the FAM overlay and it
does not have to be entered in each FFT plot in Analyst.