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Chapter 4 Using Power Software
Configuration tool

Setting up Communications

PowerSmart Socket Power Quality Meter

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3. Click on the “IP address” and type in the IP address

your meter got from the GPRS provider when
registering on the GPRS network. You can find the
meter GPRS IP address on the GPRS page in the
Device Info display (see

Device Info Display

in Chapter

3) or via the Dial-Up Networking setup dialog in Power
Software (see Modem/GPRS IP Address in

Setting-Up

Dial-Up GPRS Network

in Chapter 5)

4. In the “Protocol” box, select the communications

protocol for the PowerSmart Socket PQM GPRS TCP
port. The host port is set automatically as you select
the

protocol.

Select

“Modbus

RTU/TCP”

for

Modbus/TCP, or “DNP3” for DNP3/TCP.

5. In the “Wait for answer” box, adjust the time that

Power Software should wait for a connection before
announcing an error and the number of re-tries that
Power Software should use to receive a response from
the device if communications fail.

6. In the “Connection” box, select the Dial-up connection

you created for the PowerSmart Socket PQM. See Dial-
Up Networking for information on how to create a Dial-
up connection in Windows.

7. Check the AutoDial box, if you wish Power Software to

automatically connect to your meter every time you
access it from Power Software; otherwise you must
manually dial your connection.

Manual Dialing your Connection

To manually dial your GPRS connection:

1. Select your connection name from the Start menu ->

Settings -> Network and Dial-Up Connections.

2. Click Dial.

Communicating through a USB

On the Instrument Setup tab, click USB Port, and then click
OK.

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