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TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................V
TABLE OF FIGURES..........................................................................................VII
1 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................. 1
1.1 USING THIS MANUAL ......................................................................... 1
1.2 ABOUT THE DEVICE........................................................................... 1
1.3 UNPACKING ...................................................................................... 2
1.4 SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY................................................................ 2
2 QUICK START................................................................................................ 3
3 INSTALLATION.............................................................................................. 5
3.1 MECHANICAL INSTALLATION............................................................... 5
3.1.1 Base Radio Positioning........................................................ 5
3.2 ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION................................................................ 7
3.2.1 Electrical Specifications ....................................................... 7
3.2.2 Wiring Power to the Base Radio.......................................... 9
3.2.3 Wiring RS-485 to the Base Radio........................................ 9
3.2.4 Wiring the RS-485/232 Converter to the Base Radio........ 10
3.2.5 Wiring the RS-485/USB Converter to the Base
Radio.................................................................................. 11
3.2.6 Daisy-Chaining Multiple Base Radios to Single RS-
485/Power.......................................................................... 12
3.2.7 Terminating Communications Wiring to the Base
Radio.................................................................................. 14
3.2.8 Grounding the Base Radio................................................. 15
3.2.9 High Gain Antenna............................................................. 15
4 GENERAL CONFIGURATION..................................................................... 16
4.1 BASE RADIO DISPLAYED MESSAGES................................................ 16
4.1.1 The Read Only Sequence.................................................. 16
4.2 OVERALL CONFIGURATION MENU MAP............................................. 17
4.3 SETTING THE USER PASSWORD....................................................... 18
5 CONFIGURING THE RF COMMUNICATIONS ........................................... 19
5.1 RF CHANNEL SELECTION................................................................ 19
5.2 RF BAUD RATE SELECTION............................................................. 20
5.3 HIGH RF ID SETTING...................................................................... 21
6 CONFIGURING THE MODBUS COMMUNICATIONS................................ 22
6.1 BASE RADIO SETUP ........................................................................ 22
6.1.1 Modbus Baud Rate Setting................................................ 22
6.1.2 Modbus Device ID Setting.................................................. 23
6.1.3 Modbus Parity Setting........................................................ 25
6.1.4 Modbus Mapping Mode Setting ......................................... 25
6.2 MODBUS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL............................................. 26
6.3 MODBUS COMMANDS ...................................................................... 27
6.3.1 Command 03-Read Holding Registers .............................. 27
6.3.2 Command 08- Diagnostic................................................... 27
6.3.3 Command 11- Get Com Event Counter............................. 28
6.3.4 Command 12- Get Com Event Log.................................... 28
6.3.5 Command 17- Report Slave ID.......................................... 28
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