Outback Power Systems MATE Serial Communications Guide - Manual (Page 18)

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Shunt enable flags: ‘0’ enabled, ‘1’ disabled.
Status Flags: ‘00’ to ‘63’ This is an ASCII expression of an 8 bit byte, with each bit representing a
different flag. Relay state is 1 when relay is closed, 0 if relay is open. Relay mode is 0 if manual mode, 1
if relay control is in automatic mode. Referring to Figure 14, a returned ‘009’ would be charge parms
met and shunt 1 values are negative.
BIT # Value Warning
1 1 Charge parms met
2 2 Relay mode:
3 4 Relay state:
4 8 Shunt A values are negative
5 16 Shunt B values are negative
6 32 Shunt C values are negative
Figure 14
Battery temperature 00 to 70 and 99
99 = out of range or no RTS installed
Battery temperature C = reported battery temperature – 10, Range -10C to 60C
Chksum: ‘000’ to ‘999’ This is a simple additive chksum of the decimal values of the Status page.
NOTE: Since the FLEXnet DC address is an alpha character, its checksum needs to be
calculated differently then the FX’s numerical address. Addresses reported for the FLEXnet DC will be
‘a’ (ASCII 97) through ‘j’ (ASCII 106) corresponding to ports 1-10. The value to use for Chksum
calculations should be the received ASCII value – 48 (For the received character ‘a” the chksum value
to be used would be 97-48, or 49.
Example:
c,0000,0126,0000,02,00023,287,099,001,00,33,109
51+0+0+0+0+0+1+2+6+0+0+0+0+0+2+0+0+0+2+3+2+8+7+0+9+9+0+0+1+0+0+3+3=109
c,0583,0596,0000,05,00000,266,099,001,08,35,141
51+0+5+8+3+0+5+9+6+0+0+0+0+0+5+0+0+0+0+0+2+6+6+0+9+9+0+0+1+0+8+3+5=141