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Planning Your Application Program

$aaSiCjS

Name

Read Alarm Status

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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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