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General Information Data Library ATC5300 Automatic Transfer Controller Modbus® Communication Protocol Edition 03/2011 A5E02469001-02...
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Note the following: WARNING Siemens products may only be used for the applications described in the catalog and in the relevant technical documentation. If products and components from other manufacturers are used, these must be recommended or approved by Siemens. Proper transport, storage, installation, assembly, commissioning, operation and maintenance are required to ensure that the products operate safely and without any problems.
(SENTRON SOFTWARE ATC), third-party supervision software (SCADA) or through other intelligent devices supporting Modbus®, like PLCs. ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
By moving to another parameter or quitting, the menu the setting will be stored automatically. • Press key H to quit parameters setup. • If no keys are pressed for more than 2 minutes, the unit exits setup automatically without storing the changes. ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
04 = Modbus® function "Read input register" 00 1D = Address of the required register (battery voltage) decreased by one 00 02 = Number of registers to be read beginning from address 30 E1 CD = CRC Checksum ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
MSB CRC LSB CRC The response is always composed of the slave address, the function code requested by the master and the contents of the requested registers. The answer ends with the CRC. ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
The following table gives the meaning of the status byte sent by the ATC as answer: MEANING Operative mode OFF / Reset Operative mode MAN Operative mode AUT Operative mode TEST Error on AC power supply present DC power supply present Global alarm on ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
Data 03 - (Hardware revision) Data 04 - (Parameter revision) MSB CRC LSB CRC ¿ 61h = ATC5300 1.10 Errors In case the slave receives an incorrect message, it answers with a message composed by the queried function ORed with 80 Hex, followed by an error code byte.
LRC field allows the devices to recognize the error and thereby ignore the message. • The message terminates always with CRLF control character (0D 0A). ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
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04 = Number of bytes sent by the multimeter 00 00 01 A0 = Hex value of the phase-to-phase voltage (416 V) 4F = LRC checksum CRLF = ASCII 0Dh 0Ah = Message end delimiter ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
= number of information bits POLY = calculation polynomial of the CRC 16 = 1010 0000 0000 0001 (Generating polynomial = 1 + x In the CRC 16, the 1 byte transmitted is the least significant one. ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
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Carry=1, load polynominal 1010 0000 0000 0001 Execute xor with the polynominal 1001 0010 0000 1000 0100 1001 0000 0100 Execute 6 right shift 0010 0100 1000 0010 Execute 7 right shift ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
0001 CRC Result 0010 0100 0001 |<------- 12h ------->| |<------- 41h ------->| 1.14 Technical Support For further assistance, refer to: Technical Support on the Internet: Internet address of Technical Support http://www.siemens.com/lowvoltage/technical-support ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
Number of operations of line 1 breaker Unsigned long in AUT Number of operations of line 2 breaker Unsigned long in AUT Number of operations of line 1 breaker Unsigned long in MAN ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
Line 1 breaker status à Unsigned integer 2076h Line 2 voltage status  Unsigned integer 2077h Line 2 breaker status à Unsigned integer 2078h Input function status Ä Unsigned integer 207Ah Output function status Å Unsigned integer ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
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Output terminal 1.1 status Output terminal 1.3 status Output terminal 2.1 status Output terminal 2.3 status Output terminal 3.2 status Output terminal 3.4 status Output terminal 3.7 status 7 … 15 Not used ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
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Line 2 breaker trip Line 2 breaker Withdrawn Transfer to secondary line Inhibit return to main line Emergency pushbutton Generator start Generator 1 ready Generator 2 ready Keyboard locked Lock parameters 14 … 15 Not used ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
Á Writing value AAh to the indicated address, the correspondent function will be executed. Â Writing value FFh to the indicated address, the correspondent function will be executed. Ã The following table shows the values to be written to address 2F08h to achieve the correspondent functions. ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
For instance register 2100h holds in the MSB the hours and in LSB minutes. The same criteria is applied to seconds / day and month / year. ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
Mode changed to MAN Mode changed to AUT Mode changed to TEST External generator start (begin) External generator start (end) External transfer signal (begin) External transfer signal (end) Automatic test enabled Automatic test disabled ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
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Line 2 voltage out of limits Line 2 frequency into limits Line 2 frequency out of limits Line 2 phase sequence ok Line 2 phase sequence wrong Line 2 asymmetry into limits Line 2 asymmetry out of limits ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
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End of alarm - Line 2 breaker Trip End of alarm - Line 1 breaker Withdrawn End of alarm - Line 2 breaker Withdrawn End of alarm A15 End of alarm A16 End of alarm A17 ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
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Connection to PC failed SMS sent to user 1 SMS sent to user 2 SMS sent to user 3 SMS sending ok SMS sending failed E-mail sending E-mail sent ok E-mail sending failed Incoming SMS commands ATC5300 Modbus Communication Protocol, Edition 03/2011, A5E02469001-02...
2.10 PC-ATC Connection via RS 232 Cable 2.10 PC-ATC Connection via RS 232 Cable The cable can be ordered with the SENTRON SOFTWARE ATC Order number: 3KC9000-8TL70 2.11 PC-ATC5300 Connection via RS 485 ATC 5300 ATC 5300 1st or last device in network DANGER DANGER...