COMMUNICATING WITH A POWERSCOUT™ METER
There are a few things to determine before starting to communicate with your PowerScout meter. Are
you using BACnet or Modbus as your communication protocol? Will you use your own logger/controller
to record measurements, or will you use the ViewPoint software supplied with the meter? Is the data
delivered over an RS-485 adapter or via the Ethernet? These determinations figure into how you set up
the PowerScout meter for operation.
BACnet vs. Modbus
Set the network address switches on the meter to either Modbus or BACnet
Customer-supplied logger vs. ViewPoint™
Communication configuration must be set up in the ViewPoint software even if you use a
separate logger to record data
RS-485 vs. Ethernet
The type of connection is part of the configuration set up in the ViewPoint software
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