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# Name
Default
Range
Description
1
COMMUNICATION
PROTOCOL
1
1 – Modbus RTU
2 – N2
Protocol
2
SLAVE ADDRESS
1
1…247
3
BAUD RATE
6
1 – 300 baud
2 – 600 baud
3 – 1200 baud
4 – 2400 baud
5 – 4800 baud
6 – 9600 baud
7 – 19200 baud
8 – 38400 baud
Communication speed
When N2 protocol is used
Baudrate
must be set to 9600.
4
PARITY TYPE
0
0 – None
1 – Even
2 – Odd
Describes what kind of parity checking
is used. When N2-protocol is used
Parity
type
must be set to 0 = None
5
COMMUNICATION
TIMEOUT
20
0—OFF
1—300 s
See chapter Communication timeout
below
6
OPERATE MODE
1
1 – Normal
Reserved for later use
Table 5. RS-485 parameters
The parameters of every device must be set before connecting to the bus. Especially the parameters
Communication Protocol
,
Slave Address
and
Baud Rate
must be the same as in the master configura-
tion.
Communication timeout
The RS-485 board initiates a communication error if communication is broken for as long as defined
by the
Communication Timeout
.
Communication Timeout
is disabled when given the value 0.
Communication status
To see the present status of the RS-485 fieldbus, enter the
Comm.Status
page from
Monitor
menu
(G7.5.2). See Figure 12 and Table 6 below.
Figure 12. Communication status
Monitor
READY
I/Oter m
V1
V1
READY
I/Oter m
0.841
Comm. status
Error messages
Good messages