To all those who have replied to this query and helped me out. A big thank you. The problem is solved. DIP switches were the culprit. Also, i grounded the shield which was not grounded at the slave end. Thanks Guys. Foxboro Team Rocks - Rakesh On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, ש×?ר קצ×? <shahark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How can you make the modscan software as a slave ? > Shahar -chemada fine chmicals > -----Original Message----- > From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Gonzalo D?az > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 3:15 PM > To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [foxboro] FBM231 RS485 COMMUNICATION > > If this does not provide a solution, try this: > 1) use modscan or mdbus (from calta computing) to poll the slave device > using your laptop > 2) try to capture the frame sent and received from the slave device, in > order to get the correct frame that works. > 3) from this information, use modscan as a slave and put it on the port of > the FBM to see if the IA is sending the same frame as modscan is > > Usually, when you're trying to poll a slave device, the frame sent from > the IA may be different from the one you send using modscan, because from > IA the frame is made in base from the IO points you've configured, so a > quick way to see if what you're doing is correct is to see if the "poll > holding register" is sent to the slave device the way it should. > > I've been doing this from quite long, and generally the problem gets > solved with this procedure. Usually, the errors are from bad address (you > might change the register address to +1 or -1, try that), the conversion > (depending on the device, the float numbers might be from a single 32 bit > register or made from 2 consecutive 16 bit registers, and when is from 2 > registers, you may have to swap bytes, or even have two swap bits, ie, from > 32...1 to 1...32) > > Make sure also that the modbus function is correct, ie, function 3 instead > of function 4 or function 4 instead of function 3. > > Regards, > > > Gonzalo Diaz > > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En > nombre de Dominguez, Angel > Enviado el: Domingo, 1 de Julio de 2012 17:37 > Para: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Asunto: Re: [foxboro] FBM231 RS485 COMMUNICATION > > Try it with a iin block for a single 16 bit register, if you can read try > to do a swap f4:w3 for example. > Angel Dominguez > 938 136-8842 > -----Original Message----- > From: RAKESH DASH > Sent: 01/07/2012, 14:47 > To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [foxboro] FBM231 RS485 COMMUNICATION > > Angel/Sahara, > Yes, I have 43001:F4. Sorry I mistyped it. There are three different types > of devices communicating. Port1 and Port2 device are fine and data also is > received. > The device which is a electric meter & connected to Port3 is unable to > communicate. Rather in SMDH it shows me healthy if I don't configure any > points in IACC. As soon as I configure a floating point, & download, the > SMDH says "Device Failed". > So not sure what I am missing. Gerrit has suggested few things to check > which I will try. > Any other help on the subject is appreciated Thanks !! > - Rakesh > > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Dominguez, Angel < > angel.dominguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There's two address format 5 or 6 digits, you should have 43001:F4 as > > a valid format. > > Angel Dominguez > > 938 136-8842 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ש×?ר קצ×? > > Sent: 01/07/2012, 11:16 > > To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [foxboro] FBM231 RS485 COMMUNICATION > > > > Hi, does the problem is that you can't configure all the ports? > > Shahar chemada fine chemicals > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > On Behalf Of RAKESH DASH > > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 8:53 PM > > To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [foxboro] FBM231 RS485 COMMUNICATION > > > > Hi there, > > I am trying to interface FBM231 with an external device over RS485. > > The modbus data is Holding Register Floating Point (4 bytes) I checked > > the communication and data using modscan in a laptop and all is good. > > The configuration in FDSI baud rate etc. is also fine > > > > FBM231 is showing healthy on communication. > > But As soon as I define even one signal in the RIN block in the > > compound for receiving the data & download, the FBM231 goes out of > > order and shows me as device failed. > > I have configured the point address PNT_NO as 430001:F4. > > > > I there any known issue of such kind ? 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