BCMS Setup: Accumulator Application
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Warning: Connecting more than (32) devices for monitoring on a single bus
run may render the monitoring PCBs inoperable.
2.
Devices are listed with these characteristics (Figure 9):
a)
Device type (INP PM or IBUS)
b)
ID = unique device ID (this is not the MAC ID), used to identify the device on the bus run
c)
Modbus address
d)
Comm: Good or Lost (showing whether the Accumulator can communicate with the device)
Figure 9 Setup Tab: Device Characteristics
3.
Set Modbus parameters (Figure 10) for the bus run and the upstream network using boxes in the top
row of the Setup tab.
a)
The Modbus Base Address is assigned to the first device in the device list. Other device addresses
increment up from this address.
b)
Set network parity and baud rate using drop-down boxes or take defaults.
c)
Addresses are fixed if the bus run is monitored by the PowerWave 2 Bus System 7" Local Display.
See the Setup Screen on the display for address requirements. See section
4.4 Modbus
Addresses with Local Display
.
Figure 10 Setup Tab: Modbus Parameters
Device
Type
Unique
Device ID
Device Modbus
address
Unique physical device ID is
associated with Modbus address.
Comm: Lost
indicates that the
Accumulator cannot
communicate with the device.
Modbus address of
first device in bus run
Network parameters
