Generic Instruments

 

The initial Generic Instruments screen has the choice Generic Instrument Editor.  The Generic Instrument Editor is available to customize slave Modbus instruments that are not explicitly supported by the 9010.  To modify generic instrument setups, select this option and press the Edit key.

 

This will display a list of instrument choices from 1-16.

 

The generic instrument’s data will be stored in certain registers on the host instrument, such as the 9010 controller.  Each instrument is allotted a certain set of registers, starting with register 1000.  To determine the beginning register, use the following calculation: (100 * generic instrument’s number (1 – 16)) + 900.  Therefore, instrument 1 would begin at register 1000: (100 * 1) + 900. Instrument 7 would begin at register 1600: (100 * 7) + 900.  Each instrument is allotted 100 registers, therefore, instrument 1’s allotment is from register 1000 to 1099 on the 9010 controller, instrument 2’s allotment is from register 1100 to 1199 on the 9010 controller, etc.

 

The Generic Instrument Editor menu is split into two parts: Coms, and Data.  The screen lists the generic instruments from Instrument 1 to Instrument 16.  Select the desired instrument to configure, then choose Coms or Data.

 

Coms

The three reads can be set up on this screen.

 

 

Read 1 Register, Read 2 Register, Read 3 Register

The Read X Register field will be the register in the 9010 controller that the instrument will read from.  The

range is 0 – 327678. 

 

Read 1 Count, Read 2 Count, Read 3 Count

The Read X Count field will be the number of successive registers to read.  The range is 0 – 100. 

 

Read 1 Storage Offset, Read 2 Storage Offset, Read 3 Storage Offset

The Read X Storage Offset field will be the offset in the generic instruments registers (1000 – 1099 for Instrument 1, 1100 to 1199 for Instrument 2, etc).  The range is 0 – 100.

 

Data

 

 

The button at the top of the Data screen can be changed to modify either the process variable (PV), set point (SP), or the output (Out) for each generic instrument.  For these three choices, the user can adjust the offset, instrument register, the input type and its exponential status and scaler value, and the output type and its exponential status and scaler value.