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CHAPTER 6
— COMMUNICATION
MODBUS Protocol
The
Elnet Pico
Energy Powermeter
has
a serial interface
port allowing direct interface with an external communication
network supporting the MODBUS Protocol.
MODBUS is an Industry Standard, widely known and commonly
used communications
protocol.
Using
MODBUS
provides
communication between a PC and up to 247 Powermeter slaves on a
common line - the PC being the
master
and the powermeters the
slaves.
The PC initiates the
transaction (either a query or broadcast)
and the Powermeter/s responds. Powermeters respond to the
master
PC’s request, but will not initiate any transmission on its own. The
PC sends a single Query transaction and the Powermeter responds in
a single response frame and is capable of only one query and one
response at a time.
6.1
MODBUS Framing
6.1.1 RTU Transmission Mode
MODBUS uses the standard Remote Terminal Unit (RTU)
transmission mode. RTU mode sends data in 8-bit binary EVEN
parity or 8-bit binary NO parity data format. For the
Elnet Pico
Energy Powermeter
to successfully communicate, choose one in
the communication Set Up.