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    A S i e r r a M o n i t o r C o m p a n y APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1, 2001 Driver Manual (Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual) FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Table of Contents FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com Table of Contents 1. ATMI ACM D ESCRIPTION......................................................................[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 2 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 1. ATMI ACM Description The ATMI ACM driver allows the FieldServer to transfer data to and from de vices over either [...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 3 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 3. Hardware Connections The FieldServer is connected to the ATMI ACM Panel as shown below. Configure the ATMI ACM Pan[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 4 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 4. Configuring the FieldSer ver as a ATMI ACM Client The ATMI ACM driver is a passive client driv er. This means that[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 5 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com Example // Data Arrays // Data_Arrays Data_Array_Name, Data_Format, Data_Array_Length DA_AI_01, UInt16, 200 DA_AO_01,[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 6 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com Example The following FieldServer settings are suitable for default ACM settings. // Client Side Connections Connecti[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 7 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 4.4.2 Driver Specific Map Descriptor Parameters Column Title Function Legal Values Node_Name Name of Node to fetch da[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 8 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 4.4.4 Map Descriptor Example 1- Gas Values, Alarms & Warnings for all slots/ports. This example illustrates the m[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 9 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 4.4.5 Map Descriptor Example2 – Gas values for the current (most recent) port sample. This example illustrates a ma[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 10 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 4.4.6 Map Descriptor Example3 – Storing Malfunction Data This example illustrates a map descriptor used to store m[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 11 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 4.4.7 Map Descriptor Example4 – Gas values for the current (most recent) slot sample. This example illustrates a m[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 12 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 5. Configuring the FieldServer as a ATMI ACM Server The ATMI ACM driver cannot be used as a server. 6. Driver Notes [...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 13 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 6.2 Driver Stats The ATMI ACM Driver counts all incoming bytes as the ‘PLC Byte Rec eived’ statistic. This can b[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 14 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com The driver stores the following data. Array Element (offset dependent on port number) Contents 0 Not Used 1 ATMI_STA[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 15 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 17 ATMI_STAT_STORE_NO_MAP When processing the most recent message, no map descriptors were found to tell the driver [...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 16 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com ATMI:#3 Error. Incoming data on port=%d is being abandoned. MapDesc rqd. No map descriptors were found on the indica[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 17 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 6.5 Timeouts See section 4.2 for information on how timeouts should be specified. Occasional timeouts may be expecte[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 18 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com Malfunction Major Type Mafunction Minor Type 1. INADEQUATE BYPASS FLOW 0. 2. EMERGENCY SWITCH CLOSURE 1.TEMP_LOW 2. [...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 19 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com When you use a “…-alarm” keyword then the driver stores a 1 when the gas is in an alarm condition and a zero w[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 20 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 7. Revision Control Date Rev Resp Description 1.01a Rev1 PMC This revision and all previous revisions did not have a[...]

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    FS-8700-64 ATMI ACM Page 21 of 22 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Taro b Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web :www.fieldserver.com Tel : (408) 262-2299 Fax : (408 ) 262-9042 Toll_Free : 888-509-1970 email : suppo rt@fieldserver.com 10Feb03 1.03a Rev 0 PMC Section 4.4.2 New keywords. Added slot-values and port- values (as synonym for gas-values) S[...]