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WATLOW Series 988 User’s Manual

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Setup Menus, Chapter 4

Setup-Comm

Communications Prompts

When you are in the Setup menus, the Series 988 displays the menu
selection (

[InPt], [OtPt], [GLbL] or [COM] ) in the upper display, and

[`SEt] in the lower display.

The Up-arrow > or Down-arrow key < selects another menu. Press the
Mode key µ to display the first prompt in the lower display and its value
in the upper display. Use the Up-arrow > and Down-arrow < keys to
change the value in the upper display. The new value will not take effect
until after a five-second delay or until you press the Mode key µ.

Baud Rate

Select the communications speed.

[bAUd] This prompt appears only on controllers equipped with communi-
cations hardware (98_ _-_ _ _ _-_R_ _, 98_ _-_ _ _ _-_U_ _ or 98_ _-_ _ _ _-
_S_ _).

Default

[9600]

[`300]

[`600]

[1200]

[2400]

[4800]

[bAUd]

[bAUd]

[bAUd]

[bAUd]

[bAUd]

[bAUd]

Data Bits and Parity

Select the communications format (start bit = 1, stop bit = 1).

• Setting

[Prot] to [Mod] automatically sets [dAtA] to [``8n].

[dAtA] This prompt appears only on controllers equipped with communi-
cations hardware (98_ _-_ _ _ _-_R_ _, 98_ _-_ _ _ _-_U_ _ or 98_ _-_ _ _ _-
_S_ _).

Default

[``7o]

[``7E]

[``8n]

[dAtA]

[dAtA]

[dAtA]

[bAUd]

[dAtA]