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Tank monitor (serial port) – Gasboy CFN Series SCII Start-Up Manual User Manual

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CFN Series System

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03/07/03

TANK MONITOR (SERIAL PORT)

If you have a tank monitor connected via one of the serial ports and not the RS-485, use the
following to verify communications. The tank monitor must be set up with the following
parameters:

TLS-250 or generic

TLS-350 only

Baud rate

9600

Baud rate

Match SC

Data bits

7

Data bits

8

Parity

Odd

Parity

None

Stop bits

1

Stop bits

1

RS232 Security Code

Disabled

End of message character

Enabled

1. The site controller port must be jumpered asynchronous To DTE (Terminal) as shown in

section 5 of this manual and cabled as shown in the Installation manual.

2. Be sure the tank monitor is on and set up.

3. At the site data terminal, sign on to command mode.

4. You will need to record a command file. Type REC TMTST.CMD and press ENTER. At the

Data? prompt, type in the following and press ENTER at the end of each line. In the second
and third lines below, substitute the port number for the X. Use only the PORT OPEN
statement that applies to your tank monitor type; do not use both: (NOTE: Text below must
be typed in uppercase; do not type text in parentheses.)

*TM PORT TEST
PORT OPEN X BAUD 9600 DATA7 PARITY ODD
(This line for TLS-250 or generic)
PORT OPEN X BAUD xxxx (This line for TLS-350 only)
PORT SEND ~01
PORT SEND 200
LOOP
PORT RECEIVE QUIET 2 FILE TMTST.DTA
IF \%E = 1
RETURN
PORT CLOSE
TY TMTST.DTA
.
(period; must be on a line by itself)

5. At the command prompt (A*, C*, E*), type TMTST and press ENTER. Once the command

has completed, you should have a printout similar to the one shown below:

VEEDER-ROOT
TLS
TANK LEVEL SENSOR
- - - - - - - - - -

AUG 9, 1999
2:25 PM

TANK PRODUCT

GALLONS

INCHES

WATER

DEG F

ULLAGE

1

UNLEADED

3858

34.60

0.0

72.9

1142

2

DIESEL

7331

66.01

1.0

60.2

2669

6. Once you have verified the communications are working, you can delete the files. Type DEL

TMTST.* and press ENTER.

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