Communications
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Infra-red Port
The infra-red port is located on the front panel of the instrument. The infra-
red port uses the Infra-red Developers Association (IrDA) physical layer
format of signal encoding and decoding.
The nature of the infra-red port requires the communicating device to be
located close to the front of the instrument. Therefore, its main use would
probably be for reloading the instrument application software, or occasional
collection of data, rather than continuous communications.
Protocols
The communications protocols can be assigned to the communication ports
on the instrument as follows:
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ASCII
- Simple ASCII
available for all ports
•
RTU
- Modbus RTU
available for all ports
•
PRN
- Printer Protocol
available for RS232 and RS485
•
NONE
- If a port is not being used, set the protocol to NONE.
Note:
The Printer Protocol is only available if the option with Real Time
Clock is installed. Also a protocol cannot be assigned to more than
one port at a time as described in
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ASCII
- In this ASCII protocol each command and response is a string
of ASCII characters. This proprietary protocol is developed by Contrec
to allow for simple information interchange. The main advantages of this
mode are that it allows extended time intervals to occur between
characters without causing a timeout error and that messages can be sent
and monitored easily with a simple ASCII terminal.
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Modbus RTU
- Modbus RTU is an industry-standard protocol which
allows the instrument to be easily connected to computers running
supervisory software systems. The main advantage of this mode is that
its greater character density allows better data throughput than ASCII
mode, however each message must be transmitted in a continuous
stream.
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Printer
- In the Printer protocol there is a selection of printer types.
Please refer to the
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