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Chapter 6
Planning Your Application Program
$aaSiCjS
Name
Read Alarm Status
Description
Reads whether an alarm occurred for the specified
input channel in the specified ADAM-5000/TCP sys- 
tem 
Syntax $aaSiCjS(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 analog input channel j (j : 0 to 7). S is the 
Read Alarm Status command. 
(cr) represents terminating character, carriage return
(0Dh)
Response !aahl(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 
Modbus of the corresponding ADAM-
5000/TCP system. 
h represents the status of High alarm. ‘1’ means the 
High alarm occurred, ‘0’ means it did not occur. 
l represents the status of Low alarm. ‘1’ means the 
Low alarm occurred, ‘0’ means it did not occur. 
(cr) represents terminating character, carriage return
(0Dh)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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