FRICK QUANTUM CONTROL PANEL
COMMUNICATIONS SETUP S90-010 CS
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COMPRESSOR MODE AUTOCYCLE COMMAND: $IDMA
followed by the “CS”,”CR”
RETURNED ANSWER: - “A” followed by the “ID”,
“CR”, “LF” if successful.
COMPRESSOR MODE REMOTE COMMAND: $IDMR
followed by the “CS”,”CR”
RETURNED ANSWER: - “A” followed by the “ID”,
“CR”, “LF” if successful.
SLIDE VALVE MODE AUTOMATIC COMMAND: $IDVA
followed by the “CS”,”CR”
RETURNED ANSWER: - “A” followed by the “ID”,
“CR”, “LF” if successful.
SLIDE VALVE MODE REMOTE COMMAND: $IDVR
followed by the “CS”,”CR”
RETURNED ANSWER: - “A” followed by the “ID”,
“CR”, “LF” if successful.
COMPRESSOR SEQUENCE ACTIVATE COMMAND: $IDS2
followed by the “CS”,”CR”
RETURNED ANSWER: - “A” followed by the “ID”,
“CR”, “LF” if successful.
COMPRESSOR SEQUENCE – DEACTIVATE COMMAND: $IDS3
followed by the “CS”,”CR”
RETURNED ANSWER: - “A” followed by the “ID”,
“CR”, “LF” if successful.
ALLEN-BRADLEY COMMUNICATION
To provide for the reading and writing of data to Quantum
panels using Allen-Bradley communication, the Quantum has
a Allen-Bradley DF1 communication driver that recognizes
both half-duplex and full duplex SLC 500 protected typed
logical read and write commands. This is a Leader /
Follower multi-drop communication method. The Quantum
talks Allen-Bradley SLC protocol and is setup to be a
Allen-Bradley SLC 500 follower station. The customer’s
PLC or DCS must be setup to initiate the reading and
writing of data to a Quan-tum. The Quantum’s ID number
is used as it’s station ad-dress and the target node. With
the AB PLC, the MSG (Mes-sage) instruction is used to
send read and write requests. A DCS (Distributed Control
System) will use a SLC 500 DF1 protocol driver to send
protected typed logical read and pro-tected typed logical
write requests to a Quantum. Fifty (50) data elements can
be read with one read. The most desired data (information
on the “Operating Status” display) exists in a fifty (50)
element data area. Setpoints are changed by sending a
write command to one element. Changing a set-point
causes the Quantum to save the new setpoint to
EPROM memory (nonvolatile memory). Be careful not to
continuously request a setpoint change. Keeping the Quan-
tum busy writing to EPROM memory will interfere with the
Quantum communicating to it’s I/O Boards. A communica-
tion failure to an I/O board will cause the compressor to
shutdown. Control commands such as starting the com-
pressor are also sent with a write command. For more detail
and a list of the data, reference the “Quantum Data Table”
section. For details about the actual protocol, reference the
AB publication 1770-6.5.16 “DF1 Protocol and Command
Set Reference Manual”.
The Quantum can be connected to the Data Highway (DH)
by wiring the Quantum’s serial port (Com-2) to a serial de-
vice on the DH such as an internal port of a PLC that sup-
ports the Data Highway protocol like the SLC 5/04.
Quantums can be on a multidrop link (wired to other
Quantums). If RS-422 or RS-485 is used as in a multidrop
link, an adapter card can be used to convert an RS-232 to
an RS-422 or RS-485 serial port.
Because overrun can occur and result in the Quantum peri-
odically missing characters, the baud rate and commands
should be set up to produce the more desired throughput.
The leader station should have the Stop Bit set to 1, Parity
set to none, Duplicate Detect disabled, and Error Detect set
for BCC.
When communication is between either your programming
software and a Quantum or an Allen-Bradley PLC and a
Quantum on a multidrop link, the devices depend on a DF1
Leader to give each of them polling permission to transmit
in a timely manner. As the number of Quantum followers
in-crease on the link, the time between when the Quantum
is polled also increases. This increase in time may
become larger if you are using low baud rates. As these time
periods grow the time-outs such as the message time-out,
poll time-out and reply time-out may need to be changed
to avoid loss of communication.
ACK Time-out - The amount of time in 20 milliseconds in-
crements that you want the processor to wait for an acknowl-
edgment to the message it has sent before the processor
retries the message or the message errors out.
Reply Message Wait Time - Define the amount of time in
20 millisecond increments that the leader station will wait
after receiving an ACK (to a leader-initiate message) be-
fore polling the remote station for a reply. Choose a time
that is, at minimum, equal to the longest time that a remote
station needs to format a reply packet. Some remote sta-
tions can format reply packets faster than others.
Message Time-out - Defines the amount of time in sec-
onds that the message will wait for a reply. If this time elapses
without a reply, the error bit is set, indicating that the instruc-
tion timed out. A time-out of 0 seconds means that there is
no timer and the message will wait indefinitely for a reply.
Valid range 0255 seconds.
NOTE: Make sure the Allen-Bradley PLC and the pro-
gramming software is the most recent software revision.
Some revisions have been made that affect doing the
SLC Typed Logical Read/Write Message Command.