12/4/2012 4:32 PM | |
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The device is a modbus RTU slave. So you will require a modbus RTU master implementation on the S7 side. You will need either a CP341 or a CP441 CP card and the modbus master software / dongle. Read my write up on the modbus protocol (/tf/WW/en/Posts/66876#top) in the tips area of the communications forum. This will give you the basics of modbus protocol and contains links to the software and dongles (ordering details). The values are held as IEE754 32-bit floating point values (reals). So each value is held in 2 consecutive registers. You will need to convert this back to floating point data internally. This is described very nicely in this thread:- /tf/WW/en/Posts/62789 |
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