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Chapter 6 – B&B Electronics ADAM-5000_TCP - Manual User Manual

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Chapter 6

Planning Your Application Program

$aaSiCjAh

Name

Read Alarm Mode

Description

Returns the alarm mode for the specified channel in

the specified ADAM-5000/TCP system.

Syntax $aaSiCjAh(cr)

$ is a delimiter character.

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

SiCj identifies the desired slot i (i : 0 to 7) and the
desired channel j (j : 0 to 7).

Ah is the Read Alarm Mode command.

h indicates alarm type and can have the value H =
High alarm, L = Low alarm

(cr) represents terminating character, carriage return

(0Dh)

Response !aas(cr)

if the command was valid There is no

response if the system detects a syntax error or
communication error or if the specified ad- dress
does not exist.

! delimiter character indicating a valid command was
received.

aa represents the 2-character hexadecimal address
of the corresponding ADAM-5000/TCP system.

s indicates alarm mode and can have the value M =
Momentary mode, L = Latching mode

(cr) represents terminating character, carriage return

(0Dh)




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