Port Definitions - pro bel Freeway Manual

Freeway Range Pro-Bel ltd
• 4.2 Port definitions
Freeway has 4 ports available. The ports are defined below:
• 2 x RS485 General Remote ports
• 1 x RS232 Editor or RS232 General Remote port 3.
• 1 x Serial Inter Processor Comms (lPC) port
The IPC port is an internal link and has no external access.
The RS232 port is switch selectable to be either an Editor port (used to configure
the system) or a General Remote port.
Each of the General Remote ports can be configured to support one of a number of
protocols from the following list:
• SW-P-02 General Switcher Protocol
• 5W-P-06 Multi-drop Comms Protocol:
• SW-P-08 General Remote Control Protocol
* General Remote port 3 (RS232) does not support multi-drop comms protocol.
These protocols are described in the next section .
Port characteristics
The characteristics for each port are defined in the table below:
QUART
Port Name Standard Protocol Baud Data Parity Stop
port no. rate
bits bits
lA Gen Remote 1 RS485 Configurable
IB
Gen Remote 2 RS485 See CP command Chapter 9
lC IPC Serial SW-P-08 38400 8 N
1
10 Editor/Config
RS232 ASCII
9600 8 N 1
Gen. Remote 3 Configurable
See CP command Chapter 9
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