Displaying Messages With Variables - ICP DAS USA iKAN Series User Manual

4.2. Displaying Messages with Variables

The iKAN series device allows data related to items such as the Ethernet configuration, the RTC
value, and other information, to be inserted into a message as a system variable. The format for
using a system variable in a message that has a length of 5 bytes is as follows:
1
Delimiter
Character
y: System variable
a: ASCII string
b: Coil
%
u: Unsigned integer (0 to 65535)
i: Signed integer (-32768 to 32767)
f: Float (-3.4E+38 to +3.4E+38)
The following describes the Modbus register map for the iKAN device that can be used on the iKAN
display.
Coil-type variables (0xxxx, 0 based)
Modbus Address
Decimal Hex.
00000 0000
: :
00039 0027
00100 0064
: :
00227 00E3
iKAN Series Display User Manual
2
Variable Type
Length Description
40 Coil-type variables
Enables or disables the display of
128
common messages 0 to 127.
3 to 5
Modbus Address:
3-digit decimal number
X X
Value
Range
-
0: Disabled
1: Enabled
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X
Attribute
R/W
R/W