User's Manual

Universal Metering Transponder for kV2c™ Meter User Guide 33
Chapter 2 • Functional Description
To complete the installation process, the meter must be searched into the TWACS
operating software. The following steps provide a general overview of this process.
More detailed information is available in the TNS End User Guide and the TWACS
Network Gateway Operational Process Guide.
1. Obtain, from the installer, the following information for the installed meter.
There are seven pieces of information that identify the location and
communication path and address information of the meter:
• TWACS Serial number (required)
• Substation (required)
• Bus identification
• Feeder identification
• Phase
• Phasor (TNG)
• Transponder Type: 101
2. Enter the necessary information into TWACS operating software by
following the directions in the subsection Searching Meters into TNS, in the
Searching Meters chapter of the TNS Operational Process Guide.
3. The software will start the search process.
Once in the database, the meter is ready for AMR or On-Request reads.
Registers
The Altimus Command Parameters window shows all registers that can be read for
the type of meter selected and the registers that will be read for the rate class
(selected registers, customer class, meter model) and billing type selected
(BILLING or DSHTBILL).
Set up the Altimus Command Parameters table by following the instructions in the
TNS System Administration chapter of the TNS End User Guide.
Thermal Limit
The transponder generates a significant amount of heat when replying to a
command; the longer the command, the greater the amount of heat. Each
transponder type has a message length limit, defined in the transponder
specification and in the Product table. In the Altimus Command Configuration
window, you can see how TNS will break up the reply into segments to avoid
exceeding the thermal limit of the transponder.
See the TNS System Administration chapter of the TNS End User Guide.