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A Sierra Monitor Company Driver Manual (Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual) FS-8700-87 SDD16 APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1, 2001 Driver Version: 1.03 Document Revision: 6...
Page 3 of 10 SDD16 Description The SDD16 driver allows the FieldServer to transfer data to and from devices over RS-485 using SDD16 protocol. The FieldServer can only emulate a Client. The SDD16 driver is used to communicate with a digital I/O module model 485SDD16. The current driver only supports reading the status of all sixteen digital input lines.
Page 5 of 10 Hardware Connections The FieldServer is connected to the RS-485 SDD16 module as shown below. Configure the RS-485 SDD16 module according to manufacturer’s instructions. Note that the module auto-detects valid baud rates as defined in the client side connections.
This section documents and describes the parameters necessary for configuring the FieldServer to communicate with a SDD16 Server. The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order to enable the FieldServer for SDD16 communications, the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the “Data Arrays”...
Data_Type* Length Address 4.4.3. Timing Parameters Column Title Scan_Interval FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web:www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262-2299 Fax: (408) 262-9042 Toll_Free: 888-509-1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Function Name this Descriptor Name of Data Array where data is to be stored in the...
Descriptor. be updated for this Descriptor. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web:www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262-2299 Fax: (408) 262-9042 Toll_Free: 888-509-1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Page 9 of 10 Digitals_0, Array Offset into Data Array Descriptor’s...
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