National Instruments FieldPoint FP-1600 User Manual page 34

Chapter 3 Hardware and Software Configuration
Note When you configure the FP-1600, wait for the message
configuration was confirmed
might not be properly configured.
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. If this message does not appear, the FP-1600
4. You can now try to read from the FieldPoint devices that you have
configured. Select one of the devices in the DNH frame, and then click
on the Start Monitoring button (green arrow icon) in the toolbar to
start monitoring the items of that device.
The tag symbols of the items in the List View frame turn blue to show
that they are being monitored. The Value column in the List View
frame shows the current value of the I/O channels defined by the
I/O Items, and the Status column shows any error conditions received
while communicating with the FieldPoint network.
5. Click on the Stop Monitoring button (red square icon) in the toolbar
to stop monitoring the items.
6. You can also write to output channels of I/O Items that you have
configured.
a. Select a device with output channels in the DNH frame.
b. Select the I/O Item in the List View frame corresponding to
the channel you want to write to.
c. Click on the Write Value button (pen and paper icon) in the
toolbar to write to the I/O channel(s) represented by the I/O Item.
d. Enter the value you want to write in the Value box and click on
the Write button to write the value out. The value must be in the
range of the channel that you configured in step 3. For example, if
the channel was configured for a range of 0.0035 A to 0.021 A,
and you want to write a value of 0.010 A (10 mA), enter 0.010 in
the Value box. For discrete I/O channels with a Boolean range,
enter a 1 or a 0 in the Value box.
7. When you are satisfied with the hardware configuration of your
FieldPoint system, you can save this configuration as the new
power-up state for the hardware.
a. To edit the device configuration of the FP-1600 network module,
right-click on the network module entry in the DNH frame, then
select Edit this device from the pop-up menu.
b. Make sure that the factory configuration checkbox is not
checked.
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