Echelon LonPoint Application and Plug-In - Manual (Page 82)

8-10 Analog Function Block Functional Block
Heartbeats
This tab appears as follows:
This tab determines the heartbeat and throttle values for the input and output
network variables. This tab contains the following fields:
Input Heartbeat Determines the interval (in seconds) the network
variables that have the Use Heartbeat option selected
will wait for a heartbeat before detecting a heartbeat
failure.
Use Heartbeat Determines whether the associated input network
variable uses heartbeat checking. The All and None
buttons allow you to enable heartbeat checking for all
input network variables or none of the input network
variables, respectively.
Output Heartbeat Determines the output heartbeat, in seconds, for the
A_Out
and Digital_Out network variables. This is
the maximum amount of time that may pass between
network variable updates. Set this value to zero to
disable heartbeats.
Throttle Determines the throttle, in milliseconds, for the
A_Out
and Digital_Out Output network variables.
This is the minimum amount of time between