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A Sierra Monitor Company

APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY 

Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1, 2001 

 

Driver Manual  

(Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual)

 

 

FS-8700-115 General Purpose ASCII 

 

Driver Version: 

1.00

Document Revision:   4 

Summary of Contents for FS-8700-115

Page 1: ...pany APPLICABILITY EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1 2001 Driver Manual Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual FS 8700 115 General Purpose ASCII Driver Version 1 00 Document Revision 4 ...

Page 2: ...rdware 4 2 2 2 Required 3rd Party Configuration 4 3 HARDWARE CONNECTIONS 5 4 CONFIGURING THE FIELDSERVER AS AN GPA DRIVER CLIENT 6 4 1 Data Arrays Descriptors 6 4 2 Client Side Connection Descriptions 7 4 3 Client Side Node Descriptors 8 4 4 Client Side Map Descriptors 9 4 4 1 FieldServer Related Map Descriptor Parameters 9 4 4 2 Driver Related Map Descriptor Parameters 9 4 5 Map Descriptor Exampl...

Page 3: ...converts each space delimited string of characters numbers into a number The numbers so formed are stored in consecutive elements of a Data Array Referring to the example above the driver will store the value 57 in the 1st element of the Data Array DA the value 44 3 in the next element the value 1 in the next the value 2 in the next etc The driver can process negative numbers This driver has signi...

Page 4: ...dServer Technologies PART Description FS 8915 10 UTP cable 7 foot for Ethernet connection FS 8915 10 UTP cable 7 foot for RS 232 use FS 8917 02 RJ45 to DB9F connector adapter FS 8917 01 RJ45 to DB25M connection adapter FS 8705 96 Driver Manual 2 2 Provided by the Supplier of 3rd Party Equipment 2 2 1 Required 3rd Party Hardware Part Description None 2 2 2 Required 3rd Party Configuration Consult y...

Page 5: ...om 3 Hardware Connections The FieldServer is connected to the vendor device as shown in connection drawing Configure the ASCII Passive Client according to manufacturer s instructions Ethernet Network ASCII Data Source Eg Scale Connection via std networking interfaces such as hubs switches routers Use 8917 02 or a 3 wire cable where you connect the remote device Xmit to RJ45 01 the remote Receive t...

Page 6: ...le the FieldServer for GPA General Purpose ASCII Driver communications the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the Data Arrays section the destination device addresses need to be declared in the Client Side Nodes section and the data required from the servers needs to be mapped in the Client Side Map Descriptors section Details on how to do this can be found below Note th...

Page 7: ...e device is connected to the FieldServer P1 P8 R1 R21 Protocol Specify protocol used ASCII Baud Specify baud rate 110 115200 standard baud rates only Parity Specify parity Even Odd None Mark Space Data_Bits Specify data bits 7 8 Stop_Bits Specify stop bits 1 Handshaking Specify hardware handshaking RTS RTS CTS None Example Client Side Connections Connections Port Protocol Baud Parity P8 ASCII 9600...

Page 8: ...meric characters Node_ID This commonly used node descriptor parameter has no special meaning for this driver Incoming messages could come from any node A Node_ID may be allocated and any value may be used Protocol Specify protocol used ASCII Connection Specify which port the device is connected to the FieldServer P1 P8 R1 R22 Example Client Side Nodes Nodes Node_Name Node_ID Protocol Connection PL...

Page 9: ...iguration information for more information Note that passive client means that the map descriptor owns the Data Array elements and no other active Map Descriptor can address the same data Server passive 4 4 2 Driver Related Map Descriptor Parameters Column Title Function Legal Values Node_Name Name of Node to fetch data from One of the node names specified in Client Node Descriptor above Data_Type...

Page 10: ... xxxxxx to learn how the driver knows when a stream has ended and it should process and strore data Map_Descriptors Map_Descriptor_Name Data_Array_Name Data_Array_Offset Function Node_name Data_Type Length Store_Weights DA_Scale 0 Passive Node_A Float Reg 10 Map Descriptor Names do not need to be unique but making them so may facilitate trouble shooting The name of the Data Array where the incomin...

Page 11: ...ilpitas California 95035 USA Web www fieldserver com Tel 408 262 2299 Fax 408 262 9042 Toll_Free 888 509 1970 email support fieldserver com 5 Configuring the FieldServer as a GPA Driver Server Driver cannot be used to serve data Contact the Sales group at FST if you are interested in this functionality ...

Page 12: ...he WebServer Driver This driver is specially configured to watch for registry changes that are initiated from the WebServer driver It is possible to configure the connection settings of the port without changing the configuration file as follows Create web pages to change the registry settings Browse to the web page Change a setting When the WebServer sees that the new settings have been updated i...

Page 13: ...fieldserver com Tel 408 262 2299 Fax 408 262 9042 Toll_Free 888 509 1970 email support fieldserver com Appendix B Troubleshooting tips Appendix B 1 Timeouts If the end of stream character has not been received in the default timeout period of 0 5 seconds the driver clears the incoming buffer and waits for the beginning of the next stream ...

Page 14: ...ndix A 2 ASCII 2a b FYI Port s Setting Changed Remotely New Setting s You can safely ignore this message if the setting reported match your expectations The driver is reporting that connection settings have been changed The change resulted from a change to the FieldServer registry settings and this driver has been notified to start working with the new settings ASCII 3a b FYI Port s Initial Settin...

Page 15: ...Manual Page 15 of 15 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas California 95035 USA Web www fieldserver com Tel 408 262 2299 Fax 408 262 9042 Toll_Free 888 509 1970 email support fieldserver com THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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