FieldServer FS-8700-40 - Manual (Page 2)

FS-8700-40 SBT FSI Driver Manual Table of Contents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 SBT-FSI Description ........................................................................................................................................ 3
2 Driver Scope of Supply ................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 Supplied by FieldServer Technologies for this driver ..................................................................................... 4
2.2 Provided by the Supplier of 3rd Party Equipment ......................................................................................... 4
Hardware ............................................................................................................................................................... 4
Required 3 rd Party Configuration ........................................................................................................................... 4
3 Hardware Connections ................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Using the NIM-1R or NIM-1W for MXL .......................................................................................................... 5
1.2 RS-232 Connection to the XLS Panel .............................................................................................................. 6
1.3 FSI Connection Notes ..................................................................................................................................... 7
2 Data Array Parameters ................................................................................................................................... 8
4 Configuring the FieldServer as a SBT-FSI Client ............................................................................................... 9
4.1 Client Side Connection Parameterss ............................................................................................................ 11
4.2 Client Side Node Parameters ....................................................................................................................... 12
4.3 Client Side Map Descriptor Parameters ....................................................................................................... 12
FieldServer Related Map Descriptor Parameters ................................................................................................. 12
Driver Related Map Descriptor Parameters ......................................................................................................... 13
Timing Parameters .............................................................................................................................................. 13
Map Descriptor example 1 - Monitoring a MXL/XLS Device for Events ............................................................... 14
Map Descriptor example 2 – Monitoring Analog Loop Devices ........................................................................... 16
5 Configuring the FieldServer as a SBT-FSI Server ............................................................................................ 17
5.1 Server Side Connection Descriptors ............................................................................................................ 18
5.2 Server Side Node Descriptors ...................................................................................................................... 18
5.3 Server Side Map Descriptors........................................................................................................................ 19
FieldServer Specific Map Descriptor Parameters ................................................................................................. 19
Driver Specific Map Descriptor Parameters ......................................................................................................... 19
Map Descriptor example 1 - Emulating a MXL/XLS device with events ............................................................... 20
Map Descriptor example 2 - Emulating a MXL/XLS device with analogs............................................................. 21
Appendix A Useful Features ................................................................................................................................. 22
Appendix A.1. Specifying a Poller Map Descriptor length ....................................................................................... 22
Appendix A.2. Interpreting Panel Error Messages ................................................................................................... 23
Appendix A.3. Obtaining Point Addresses from the panel report ........................................................................... 23
Appendix A.4. Activating and De-activating Entities ............................................................................................... 24
Appendix A.5. Arming and De-Arming Entities ........................................................................................................ 25
Appendix A.6. Request ASD or Sensitivity ............................................................................................................... 27
Appendix A.7. Request % Compensation Used / % Dirty ........................................................................................ 28
Appendix A.8. Opcode 45 – Request List Map Descriptors that trigger at Startup or Node Offline and stop at
Node Online ............................................................................................................................................................. 28
Appendix A.9. Node Status Function ....................................................................................................................... 29
Appendix B Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................................ 30
Appendix A.10. Checksum Errors ............................................................................................................................ 30
Appendix A.11. Recording Active Events – XLS Panel .............................................................................................. 30
Appendix A.12. Using Trouble Codes ....................................................................................................................... 30