ADLINK ND-6018 - Manual (Page 94)

86 • Data Format and Input Range
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Data Format and Input
Range
4.1 Data Format of Analog Input Modules
There are four types of data format used in analog input modules.
1. Engineering
units.
2. Percent of FSR (Full Scale Range).
3. Two’s complements hexadecimal.
4. Ohms.
Engineering Units
• Set bit 1 and bit 0 of data format variable to “00” means the data is
represented in engineering units
• This data format including three components
1. sign (+ or -)
2. digits
3. decimal point
• Data is composited with a sign (+ or -) followed with 5-digits and a
decimal point.
• It does not exceed 7-characters
The different analog input ranges have different resolutions or number
of decimal places. Refer to Table 4-1 for details.