Rice Lake 820i Programmable Indicator/Controller - Installation Manual User Manual

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HANDSHK

OFF
XONOFF
HRDWAR

Specifies whether XON/XOFF flow control characters or hardware handshaking is used.

Hardware handshaking is available only on Port 2.

PORTTYPE

232
485

Specifies whether Port 4 is used for RS-232 or RS-485 communications. If 485 is selected,
additional prompts are shown to specify half- or full-duplex operation and RS-485 address.

Note

RS-485 communications can be specified for Ports 4 and 7.

DUPLEX

HALF
FULL

Specifies whether the RS-485 communications is half- or full-duplex.

ADDRESS

0
0–255

Specifies the decimal indicator address for RS-485 connections. RS-232 communications is
disabled if an address other than zero is specified for this parameter. RS-485 addresses must
be in the range 01–255.

STREAM

OFF
LFT
INDUST
4KEYS
KEYPAD
DISPLAY

Specifies what data, if any, is streamed from the port.

4KEYS and KEYPAD stream keypad events to a receiving indicator. KEYPAD transmits all
keypad events; 4KEYS transmits keypresses of the ZERO, GROSS/NET, TARE, and UNITS
keys only.

DISPLAY streams the complete display image to the receiving indicator in local/remote
indicator configurations. See Section

10.4 on page

93 for more information.

Note

Streaming is not supported for RS-485 connections.

SOURCE

source_scale

If STREAM is set to a value other than OFF, SOURCE specifies the source scale for data
streamed from the port.

SFMT

format

Specifies the stream format used for the streamed data (SCALE or IND SC scale types). The
default format is the Consolidated Controls format (see Section

10.6 on page

96). See

Section

10.5 on page

94 for information about custom stream formatting.

TOKENS

PRIMAR
SECNDR
TERTIA
GROSS
INVALID
MOTION
ZERO
NET
OK
RANGE
TARE

If STREAM is set to OFF, the TOKENS parameter can be used to replace tokens used in the
data stream from the indicator front panel. See Section

10.5 on page

94 for more information

about custom stream formatting.

TESTCOM

iQUBE

communications tests.

Level 4 Submenus

iQUBE

only

VALIDAT

Use Upload softkey to retrieve serial numbers of attached

iQUBE

units.

SERIAL Menu

Parameter

Choices

Description

Table 3-6. Serial Menu Parameters (Continued)

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