Bronkhorst FlowDDE - Manual (Page 3)

BRONKHORST ®
Table of contents
1 GENERAL PRODUCT INFORMATION ................................................................................................. 4
1.1 I NTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 4
1.2 R EFERENCES TO OTHER APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS ..................................................................................................... 4
1.2.1 Manuals and user guides ............................................................................................................................ 4
1.2.2 Technical drawings ..................................................................................................................................... 4
1.2.3 Software tooling.......................................................................................................................................... 4
1.3 S UPPORTED INSTRUMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 4
1.4 S YSTEM REQUIREMENTS ..................................................................................................................................... 5
1.5 I NSTALLATION AND START UP .............................................................................................................................. 5
1.5.1 Start up options ........................................................................................................................................... 5
2 INTERFACES..................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 RS232/FLOW-BUS INTERFACE ......................................................................................................................... 6
2.1.1 D-connector for RS232 ................................................................................................................................ 6
2.2 RS232 ON MULTIBUS INSTRUMENT ...................................................................................................................... 7
2.2.1 Applications, e.g. EL-FLOW ......................................................................................................................... 7
3 PARAMETER INFORMATION ............................................................................................................ 8
4 OPERATION ................................................................................................................................... 10
4.1 B ASIC : COMMUNICATION TO INSTRUMENTS AND SERVING CLIENT APPLICATIONS ............................................................10
4.1.1 Communication settings ........................................................................................................................... 10
4.1.2 Open communication ................................................................................................................................ 11
4.1.3 Close communication ................................................................................................................................ 11
4.2 C ONFIGURATION .............................................................................................................................................11
4.3 S ETTINGS ......................................................................................................................................................12
4.3.1 Poll time .................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.3.2 System settings ......................................................................................................................................... 12
4.4 V IEW AND EDIT PARAMETERS .............................................................................................................................13
4.4.1 View parameters and values ..................................................................................................................... 13
4.4.2 Edit parameters ........................................................................................................................................ 13
4.5 T EST COMMUNICATION ....................................................................................................................................14
4.5.1 Test FLOW-BUS and DDE ........................................................................................................................... 14
4.5.2 Test ProPar ................................................................................................................................................ 15
4.6 S ERVICE LOG ..................................................................................................................................................15
5 DDE COMMUNICATION BY CLIENTS ............................................................................................... 16
5.1 B ASIC PARAMETER COMMUNICATION ..................................................................................................................16
5.2 S PECIAL OPTIONS ............................................................................................................................................16
5.2.1 Channel 0 .................................................................................................................................................. 16
5.2.2 Parameter 0 .............................................................................................................................................. 16
5.2.3 Server topic ............................................................................................................................................... 17
6 FLOWDDE TECHNICAL DETAILS ...................................................................................................... 18
7 SERVICE ........................................................................................................................................ 19
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