Maple Systems Silver Series Installation And Operation Manual page 72

68 Sil ver Se ries In stal la tion & Op er a tion Man ual
Aux Set tings Con fig u ra tion
The Aux tab is used to configure the Aux port.
For more information on this feature, see Using the Aux Port at the end of this chapter.
PLC Block Pack
This feature allows the OIT programmer to enhance the update rate of data received from the PLC when the PLC
registers displayed on a screen are 'blocked' close together. The default setting is 0. This means that the OIT sends
a command to the PLC requesting data for each register that is displayed on screen. For instance, if you have five
data fields configured on the OIT to monitor %R1, %R2, %R3, %R4, and %R5 of a GE PLC, then the OIT sends
five separate commands to the PLC to update these fields.
This is the slowest method of updating the registers, but it does have the advantage that the update rate does not
depend on having the PLC registers all together, (R1-R5). In other words, if monitoring %R1, %R10, %R65,
%R156, and %R2048, the update rate would be exactly the same as monitoring %R1-%R5.
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