Gasboy Site Controller III Start-Up - Manual (Page 84)

Communication Tests
Page 72 MDE-4375 CFN Series Site Controller III Start-Up Manual · June 2005
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.
1 Be sure the tank monitor is on and set up.
2 At the site data terminal, sign on to command mode.
3 Type REC TMTST.CMD and press ENTER.
(This starts recording a temporary command file named TMTST.CMD.)
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 (
Figure 10-1 ); 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 (the special character appearing before the percent sign is a back quote)
RETURN
PORT CLOSE
TY TMTST.DTA
. (period must be on a line by itself)
TLS-250 or generic TLS-350 only
Baud rate 9600 Baud rate Match Site Controller
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