GE Industrial Solutions POWER LEADER ModBus Monitor - Manual (Page 50)

POWER LEADER Modbus Monitor
Chapter 7 – Advanced Configuration
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display the screen, only the first 10 blocks will be used
and the rest of the screen display will be discarded.
The creation of these register blocks is a logical exercise
which must be performed by the user; the Configuration
Tool does not offer any special dialog boxes or lists of
register blocks.
To ease the process of creating these blocks of registers,
we suggest that you begin by making a list of the
registers you wish to display, then divide them into a
maximum of 10 groups per register type, with each
group containing no more than 125 addresses, keeping
the extraneous addresses between those you’re interested
in to a minimum. Remember that the addresses should be
sorted by type; all the registers in a single register block
must be of the same type.
With this list of register blocks in hand, go ahead and
enter your registers, including the extraneous ones, into
the configuration.
Step 4. Customize the Display
The screens that will appear on the Monitor are pre-
defined for the pre-supported devices. When you create a
new device type, you have the opportunity to customize
the way you’ll see that device type’s data on the
Monitor’s screen.
If you are creating a generic device type from scratch
you’ll have to define each screen from the ground up. If
you have created the device type by saving a tightly
integrated device type as a hybrid or generic device type,
you’ll have access to all the base device type’s screens to
modify as you please.
To customize the display of a device type, select
MODIFY AN EXISTING DEVICE TYPE from the
Configuration Tool main menu.
The Modify Device Types dialog appears, prompting
you to select the device you wish to modify. Choose the
generic or hybrid device whose screens you need to
create or modify, and click MODIFY.
The Register Map dialog box appears. Click the
Customize Display button.
Figure 49. Customize Display dialog box.
The Customize Display dialog box appears. From this
dialog box, you’ll be able to add or delete screens and
modify their contents.
Assigning Registers to Screens
There are two types of fields available: Label fields and
Data fields. Label fields allow you to enter text labels
which will be displayed on the Monitor. Data fields
allow you to assign a particular register to be displayed.
To assign a label to a field, click in the field and type in
the desired label. To assign a register to a data field,
double click in the field. The Assign/Unassign Registers
dialog box appears, similar to Figure 50. Select the
register for the current field, and click Assign.
Figure 50. Assign/Unassign Registers dialog.
For instance, in the top left field, you might enter the
label Amps Phase A. Then you would double click in the
field next to this label (a data field) and bring up the
Assign/Unassign Registers dialog box.
Select the register you want to assign to this field (in this
case, the register for Amps Phase A), and click Assign.
(If you want to change the register associated with this