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Data format and input range – ADLINK ND-6017 User Manual

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Data Format and Input Range

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Data Format and Input
Range

4.1 Data Format of Analog Input Modules

There are four types of data format used in analog input modules.

1. Engineering

units.

2. Percent of FSR (Full Scale Range).
3. Two’s complements hexadecimal.
4. Ohms.

Engineering Units

Set bit 1 and bit 0 of data format variable to “00” means the data is
represented in engineering units

This data format including three components

1. sign (+ or -)
2. digits
3. decimal point

Data is composited with a sign (+ or -) followed with 5-digits and a
decimal point.

It does not exceed 7-characters


The different analog input ranges have different resolutions or number
of decimal places. Refer to Table 4-1 for details.