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Third party control protocol – Australian Monitor AMD P Series User Manual

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Third party control is supported via two physical interfaces:

1. RS-232 serial port

2. Ethernet port

The AMD P Series amplifiers provide third party communications when the amplifier is placed in the
power saving mode.

RS-232 PORT INFORMATION

Baud

Rate

Data

Bits

Parity

Stop

Bits

Duplex

Flow

Control

19,200

8

None

1

Full

None

RS-232 Packet Structure

The serial protocol is an ASCII protocol. All characters in the string are ASCII characters.
Binary values ranging between hexadecimal 00 and FF are transmitted as two ASCII characters.

All command strings start with the % character and end with a carriage return (shown as
in this document) and are equal to the single ASCII value of 13 decimal (0x0D hex).

ETHERNET PORT INFORMATION

Port

Speed

Protocol

Receive

Port

Transmit

Port

Duplex

10/100Mbps

UDP

11223

11224

Full

Ethernet Packet Structure

Ethernet messages are constructed using a simple header and data structure:

The message header is either a Master (3rd party) or Slave (AMD P series) Header.

Messages from the third party system:

Messages from the AMD P series amplifier:

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AMD SERIES INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL

THIRD PARTY CONTROL PROTOCOL

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