Troubleshooting Options - Trane BACnet MS/TP Installation, Operation And Maintenance Manual

Wiring and link performance, best practices and troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting Options

Use
practices section of this document for information on fixing the problem.
Table 7.
Troubleshooting quick reference
Symptom
Intermittent communication or communication is down
Device not found
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All down-stream devices not found
Two devices not communicating
Communication time-outs, slow data response to query
(a) In the UC400 and UC600 controller design, there is a female terminal connector that the MS/TP and IMC communication buss share. It is common to miss-align the MS/TP
connector and connect one line of the network to an IMC terminal.
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Table 7, p. 39
to quickly identify the symptom and some possible causes, then refer to the best
• Using the wrong type of wire.
• Wire run is too long.
• Too many devices on the link.
• Wrong wire topology.
• Problem with Terminators (i.e., missing, too few, too many, not powered, etc.).
• Improper wire connections at the terminals on the device.
• Bad ground connection at the device.
• Both ends of the shield wire not grounded.
• Open connection of shield wire.
• Short in communication wire to ground.
• Short between communication wires.
• Baud rate mismatch.
• Duplicate rotary switch address.
• External electrical interference.
• Non-conforming third-party device, or device is not using BACnet
• Reverse ground at a device (swapped 24 Vac wire with ground wire with a common power transformer)
Transformer shared with device and other non-controller devices in an enclosure.
• Reverse ground at a device (swapped 24 Vac wire with ground wire with a common power transformer)
Multiple unit controllers sharing a transformer.
• Bad ground connection at the device.
• Loose terminals.
• Device not configured for BACnet
• Rotary dial error (address set to "0" with dials).
• Trane rotary dial value set to zero.
• Max Manager property set to low.
• Device powered down.
• Too many devices on the link.
• Break in wire (both wires).
• Break in wire (one wire).
• Loose terminals.
• Bad wire connection at the device.
• Reverse polarity of +/- communication wires.
• Incorrect connector placement
• Duplicate rotary switch Address.
• Link data traffic overload.
• TGP2 data requests are too frequent.
• Data log requests are too frequent.
• Too many data logs gathering information.
Possible Causes
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