Hessen Comm Port Configuration; Table 6-4: Rs-232 Communication Parameters For Hessen Protocol - Teledyne T300 Operation Manual

Teledyne API – Model T300/T300M CO Analyzer
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6.7.2.1. HESSEN COMM PORT CONFIGURATION

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instruments are regarded as slaves of the host computer. The remote instruments are
unaware that they are connected to a multidrop bus and never initiate Hessen protocol
messages. They only respond to commands from the host computer and only when they
receive a command containing their own unique ID number.
The Hessen protocol is designed to accomplish two things: to obtain the status of remote
instruments, including the concentrations of all the gases measured; and to place remote
instruments into zero or span calibration or measure mode. API's implementation
supports both of these principal features.
The Hessen protocol is not well defined, therefore while API's application is completely
compatible with the protocol itself, it may be different from implementations by other
companies.
The following sections describe the basics for setting up your instrument
to operate over a Hessen Protocol network.
For more detailed information as well as a list of host computer
commands and examples of command and response message syntax,
download the Manual Addendum for Hessen Protocol from the Teledyne
API web site: http://www.teledyne-api.com/manuals/.
Hessen protocol requires the communication parameters of the T300/T300M Analyzer's
COMM ports to be set differently than the standard configuration as shown in Table 6-4.
Table 6-4: RS-232 Communication Parameters for Hessen Protocol
PARAMETER
Baud Rate
Data Bits
Stop Bits
Parity
Duplex
To change the baud rate of the T300/T300M's COMM ports, see Section 6.2.2.
To change the rest of the COMM port parameters listed in Table 6-4, see Section 6.2 and
Table 6-1.
Ensure that the communication parameters of the host computer are also
properly set.
The instrument software has a 200 ms latency before it responds to
commands issued by the host computer. This latency should present no
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