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Thermo Scientific APEX User’s Guide
2) Press the right-navigation button to display the next product (product n+1, which in
our example is product 002, ice cream).
Product Name
3)
Continue pressing the right-navigation button to review all other products.
Retrieving Statistical Information
In any production environment, good record keeping is important because it allows you
to monitor the detector’s performance, keep careful quality-control records, and predict
when future problems—such as a wet product giving false rejects—are likely to occur.
The following registers allow you to retrieve real-time values for the following APEX
statistics.
Description Read
register
No. of
registers
Data type
Current product number 30020 1 unsigned short
Total reject count 30021 2 unsigned long
Contaminant count 30023 2 unsigned long
Quality Test count 30025 2 unsigned long
AuditCheck count 30027 2 unsigned long
Total pack count 30029 2 unsigned long
Detect level 30031 1 unsigned short
Current peak value 30032 1 unsigned short
Understanding Register Formats
All Modbus registers use the “Big Endian” format, which means that the most significant
byte (MSB) is received first when reading register addresses. Thus, when values are
stored in multiple registers (for example, the values for total reject count), the following
rules apply.
• The MSB is received first when reading the starting address of the value.
• The least significant byte is received last when reading the highest address of the
value.