Campbell Scientific PakBus Networking Guide - Manual (Page 3)

PakBus Networking Guide
Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
..................................................................1
2. PakBus Network Terminology
....................................1
3. PakBus Concepts
........................................................3
3.1 Protocol Description .................................................................................3
3.2 Device Addresses .....................................................................................4
3.3 Routers......................................................................................................6
3.4 Discovering Devices.................................................................................6
3.4.1 Beacons...........................................................................................6
3.4.2 Allowed Neighbor List ...................................................................6
3.4.3 Program Instructions.......................................................................7
3.5 Datalogger to Datalogger Communication ...............................................7
3.6 Concurrent Communication......................................................................8
3.7 Keeping Track of PakBus Devices ...........................................................8
4. PakBus Dataloggers
....................................................9
4.1 CRBasic Dataloggers (CR800, CR850, CR1000, and CR3000) ............10
4.2 CR200 Series Datalogger .......................................................................11
4.3 Edlog Dataloggers (CR510-PB, CR10X-PB and CR23X-PB)...............12
4.3.1 PakBus Settings ............................................................................12
5. PakBus Troubleshooting Tools
................................14
5.1 PakBus Graph .........................................................................................14
5.2 LogView .................................................................................................14
Appendix
A. Entering CR10X-PB PakBus Settings with a
Keyboard Display
...................................................... A-1
Figures
3-1. Example PakBus Protocol Packet ...........................................................4
3-2. Network Map...........................................................................................5
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