Rice Lake 880 Performance Series Indicator/Controller Technical/Service Manual User Manual
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Using Revolution
®
with Ethernet
1. Use one of the methods shown in Section 9.1.1 or 9.1.2 to connect the 880 to the PC with Revolution III
installed.
2. In Revolution III, after opening the 880 module, select
Tools
, then
Options
.
3. Set the default communications to TCP/IP and click OK.
4. Under the
Communications
menu, select
Connect
.
5. Revolution III will request the IP address and port number. Enter them and click
OK
.
6. Revolution III will attempt to establish communications with the indicator. If the connection is successful,
Revolution III is ready to use to upload and download configuration settings.
When using Revolution with Ethernet, the Timeout setting for the 880 Ethernet Server should be set to 0 to
prevent the 880 from terminating the connection.
If the connection was unsuccessful, re-check all network settings, both on the computer and in the 880. Also try to
‘ping’ the IP address of the 880 to verify the computer and 880 are both able to communicate on the network.
• Only a single connection each to the Server and Client is allowed at one time. If a connection is already established,
other connection attempts will fail.
• The Server and Client ports are independent of each other, and both can have a connection at the same time. This
means it can be streaming out one port, while using a PC to poll data from the other. Data can be streamed out both
ports if desired (for best results, set the End-of-Line Delay on both ports to at least 2).
• Establishing connections - a client must establish a connection to a server. Therefore, the 880 cannot connect to a
Remote Client, and a Remote Server cannot connect to the 880
• Both the Server and Client connections have a Timeout parameter, allowing the 880 to terminate either connection after
the set number of seconds has passed with no activity (0 = no disconnect).
• When connecting to a DHCP network, it may take several seconds before the 880 is assigned an IP address. When a new
IP address is assigned through DHCP, it is stored in the 880 configuration and will remain the IP address used until
reconfigured manually; the indicator settings are reset to default; or a new address is assigned by DHCP.
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