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Driver Manual (Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual) FS-8704-12 GE-EGD APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after April 2010 A Sierra Monitor Company Driver Version: 1.02 Document Revision:...
As a Client the FieldServer acts as an EGD consumer. As a Server the FieldServer acts as an EGD producer. The IC697CMM742 Ethernet module supports both GE SRTP and GE EGD.
This section documents and describes the parameters necessary for configuring the FieldServer to communicate with a GE-EGD Producer. The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order to enable the FieldServer for GE-EGD communications, the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the “Data Arrays”...
Not all ports shown are necessarily supported by the hardware. Consult the appropriate Instruction manual for details of the ports available on specific hardware. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Legal Values characters Nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn...
Descriptor for the 2nd, 3rd ... Map Descriptors associated with one data packet will be non-zero. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Page 8 of 23 Legal Values One of the node names specified in Section 5.2...
This and the exchangeID uniquely identify a produced data packet. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Page 9 of 23 The node name...
Not all ports shown are necessarily supported by the hardware. Consult the appropriate Instruction manual for details of the ports available on specific hardware. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Legal Values N1,N2...
Each produced data packet contains raw packed data. This keyword is used to tell the driver how to pack the data into the message. Thus data can be read from a BIT array in the FieldServer and sent as words Ge_data_type for storage in %R (register memory) in the GE-PLC.
PLC that will produce data for the FieldServer. Since the EGD data packet is not structured, the FieldServer cannot decode the data ranges without the Map Descriptors. It is therefore important that the data ranges in the produced exchange correspond to the Map Descriptors in the CSV file.
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A second screen image shows that this exchange actually has an additional range at offset 8. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com This is the producerID.
An example is shown on the following page. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com You will need this adapter’s IP address. It...
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EGD_STATS FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Page 17 of 23 This is the IP address of the producing port. You can obtain this by using the Versapro HWC program and double clicking on the Module with the adapter shown in the EGD configuration.
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IP address of the producer port. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Page 18 of 23 , Function , Node_Name...
4 -> Length of produced and consumed exchange not equal - Different messages with the same exchange ID. 6. -> Timeout. Appendix B.4. Error Messages Multiple protocol drivers may exist on a FieldServer. Each driver may produce its own error messages and the FieldServer itself may produce error messages. Message EGD:#1 Error.
The driver stores the following data. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Action An illegal data type has been used.