Accessing The Meter In Default Communication Mode; Protocol: Modbus Rtu - Electro Industries Shark 200 Installation & Operation Manual

Meter Connection
To provide power to the meter, attach an Aux cable to GND, L(+) and N(-). Refer to
Section 4.8, Figure 1.
The RS485 cable attaches to SH, - and + as shown in Figure 5.1.
Note that you can use EIG's Rs485 to USB communication converter, explained in the
previous section, 5.1.2.2.

5.2.1: Accessing the Meter in Default Communication Mode

You can connect to the Shark® 200T in Default Communication mode. This feature is
useful in debugging or if you do not know the meter's programmed settings and want
to find them. For 5 seconds after the Shark® 200T is powered up, you can use the
RS485 port with Default Communication mode to poll the Name Register. You do this
by connecting to the meter with the following default settings (see 5.2.2: Connecting
to the Meter through Communicator EXTTM Software on page 5-9):
Baud Rate: 9600
Address: 1

Protocol: Modbus RTU

The meter continues to operate with these default settings for 5 minutes. During this
time, you can access the meter's Device Profile to ascertain/change meter informa-
tion. After 5 minutes of no activity, the meter reverts to the programmed Device
Profile settings.
IMPORTANT! In Normal operating mode the initial factory communication settings
are:
Baud Rate:
Address:
Protocol:
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