Chapter 4
Installing and Using the FieldPoint Software
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make sure that you have selected the COM port to which you have
connected the FieldPoint system. If FieldPoint Explorer reports that
it cannot bind the COM port, make sure that you have selected a
COM port that is properly configured in your computer and is not
being used by any other program.
6.
After the FieldPoint modules are found, click on the + sign next to
FP Res in the DNH window to expand the device hierarchy and
display the modules found on the network.
The hierarchy should include all of the modules you had connected
to the communications port. Figure 4-1 shows an example of an
expanded device hierarchy. The default name of each device found
includes the model number of the FieldPoint module, followed by
the @ sign, then the address of the module—for example, “FP-1000
@0”. For each I/O module found, one I/O Item is created for each
channel of the module, and one I/O Item is created to represent all
of the channels on that module collectively.
7.
To configure the hardware settings of a particular I/O module,
select the device in the DNH window.
a.
Right-click on the device name and select Edit the device from
the pop-up menu.
b.
Click on the Channel Configuration button to bring up the
channel configuration dialog box shown in Figure 4-5. In this
example, an FP-TC-120 thermocouple module was selected to
configure.
c.
To configure a channel, select the channel in the Channel
Number list.
d.
Set the attributes of this channel from the Attributes tab by
selecting the desired Attribute Value from the list.
e.
Set the data range for this channel by clicking on the Ranges
tab and selecting the range from the list.
f.
Continue this for each channel in the Channel Number list that
you want to configure.
g.
Click the OK button when you are finished.
h.
Click the Yes button when asked if you want to write these
settings to the device.
