Re: [foxboro] FBM232 Modbus Setup Issues

  • From: "Kinsinger, Matthew R" <mkinsinger@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:44:10 +0000

There are plenty of free Modbus and Modbus TCP readers you can install to test 
communication to the device from your PC. ModPoll or something to that affect I 
remember working well when I needed it. Try a register in the middle of 3 
registers you think exist. I've found far too many devices you have to shift 
the register number by 1 in either direction to match up with the stated 
register number.

Matt Kinsinger
mkinsinger@xxxxxxx
330-825-1208 office
330-472-1454 ppg cell

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Badura, Tom
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 9:38 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] FBM232 Modbus Setup Issues

Maks,

A few items we ran into when getting or ModbusTCP started.  The symptoms sound 
like you are trying to access a bad address in the device.  Do you have DCI 
READY (on ECB201 display and System Management) prior to connecting the DCI 
blocks?  

As stated in a few other replies, you need to verify that all addresses 
(registers, coils, etc.) requested by the FBM232 ModbusTCP driver actually 
exist in the device.  Note that the driver will by default issue one command 
for all contiguous registers where possible.  I.E. if you create a DCI block 
for Modbus register 1 (40001) and another for Modbus register 100 (40100) the 
FBM will issue a read/write multiple register command for all 100 registers 
(40001 through 40100).  If not all 100 registers actually exist in the device 
it will respond with an error.  The way around this is to create and load a 
Device File that specifies the specific addresses available in the device 
(DVOPTS = MODBUS+XML).  Note also that some devices have an offset of +/-1 in 
the address specified in Foxboro verses the address in the device. 

One other item we ran into is that by default the Foxboro ModbusTCP driver uses 
Unit ID 255 which should specify any/all units.  We have one brand of PLC that 
did not like this and we had to specify Unit 1 (DVNAME = IP.Address/1).  As I 
recall this should up as a problem even before trying to connect DCI blocks.


Tom Badura
Plastics Engineering Company
tbadura@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Maks Wilde
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 8:12 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] FBM232 Modbus Setup Issues

Normand/Dirk,
Thank you for your replies. The device I'm trying to communicate with is a 
Smith Meter Accuload III. Not sure if anyone has experience with these.
They have a lot of options on the device end of things and we're trying to see 
if maybe something is not set right for the FDSI to communicate with it. At 
this point I can't even read a single coil from it without faulting the ECB201 
block.

Any other suggestions are very welcome :)

Maks Wilde
 
 
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