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Chapter 6

Planning Your Application Program

$aaSiCj

Name

Specified RTD Data In

Description

Returns the input value of a specified channel for a

specified RTD input module of a specified system in
engineering units only.

Syntax $aaSiCj(cr)

$ is a delimiter character.

aa (range 00-FF) represents the 2-character hexadeci-
mal Modbus network address of the ADAM-5000/
TCP system you want to interrogate.

SiCj identifies the desired slot i (i:0 to 7) and the
desired channel j (j:0 to 2) of the module you want to
interrogate.

(cr) is the terminating character, carriage return (0Dh).

Response >(data)(cr)

if the command is valid.

?aa(cr) if an invalid operation was entered. There is
no response if the module detects a syntax error or
communication error or if the specified ad- dress
does not exist.

> delimiter character indicating a valid command was
received.

? delimiter character indicating the command was
invalid.

aa (range 00-FF) represents the 2-character hexadeci-
mal Modbus network address of an ADAM-5000/
TCP system.

(data) is the input value in engineering units of the
specified channel for the specified RTD input mod-
ule of the specified system. If (data)=” “, it means the
channel is invalid.


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