Custom serial port messages – Rockwell Automation 5370-UPK CVIM USER-PAK Option User Manual

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Chapter 2

Introduction to the USER–PAK Option

2–3

Text Modification: The USER–PAK option enables the ADMINISTRATOR
to modify the text of menu items, and of on–screen messages such as the
help messages or the power–up title banner. To modify text, you use the

Change Text

feature (accessed from the

Env.

menu).

For communication between the CVIM module and a remote device, the
CVIM module has a serial port (CVIM module series A has one serial port,
series B or later, two serial ports). With the USER–PAK option installed,
you can create your own custom serial port messages for transmission
through the serial port. The messages consist of ASCII characters. These
messages are transmitted automatically by the CVIM module – they need
not be “solicited” (requested by command) by the connected device.

You create serial port messages using the

Config. Output

feature, which

becomes available on the

Env.

menu with the USER–PAK option installed.

Custom Serial Port
Messages