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B&B Electronics 232BSS4 - Manual User Manual

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Documentation Number 232BSS4-0812m

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Table 2.2: Send Only and Clear Buffer Control Characters

Ports to Transmit or

Clear Receive Buffer

Binary Value

(x = Don’t Care)

Decimal

Value

ASCII

Character

None

xxxx0000

0 or 64

“@”

A Only

xxxx0001

1 or 65

“A”

B Only

xxxx0010

2 or 66

“B”

A & B

xxxx0011

3 or 67

“C”

C Only

xxxx0100

4 or 68

“D”

A & C

xxxx0101

5 or 69

“E”

B & C

xxxx0110

6 or 70

“F”

A, B, & C

xxxx0111

7 or 71

“G”

D Only

xxxx1000

8 or 72

“H”

A & D

xxxx1001

9 or 73

“I”

B & D

xxxx1010

10 or 74

“J”

A, B, & D

xxxx1011

11 or 75

“K”

C & D

xxxx1100

12 or 76

“L”

A, C, & D

xxxx1101

13 or 77

“M”

B, C, & D

xxxx1110

14 or 78

“N”

A, B, C, & D

xxxx1111

15 or 79

“O”

Note: The 232BSS4 ignores the upper 4 bits of the control byte. If the
Master device is incapable of sending characters outside the printable
ASCII range, decimal 64 can be added to each of the control bytes and the
switch will operate properly.

Ignore Commands – “T” + one control byte specifying the length of time to
ignore commands.

The Ignore Commands command tells the 232BSS4 to ignore all

commands from the Master device for a specific amount of time. This
command is useful if the data coming from the Master device may
contain switching commands. By switching to a port, then sending the
Ignore Commands command, all data received on the Master port of the
232BSS4 will be passed directly to the selected Slave port without
checking for a command sequence until the programmed time has
elapsed. The control byte at the end of the command tells the 232BSS4
how long to ignore commands from the Master device. This byte is
ASCII “0” – “9” (48 – 57 Decimal). Timer values for each Control byte
are given in Table 2.3.