User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 - Introduction
- 2 - Safety Guidelines
- 3 - Regulatory Guidelines
- 4 - Product Specifications
- 5 - Features
- 6 - Inside the Meter
- 7 - Inspecting the Site for Anomalies
- 8 - Installing the Meter
- 9 - Testing NIC Communications in the Field
- 10 - Updates and Repairs
- Index
50 A c l a r a R F E l e c t r i c I - 2 1 0 + c U s e r G u i d e
Configuration Management
population of meters. This way, if a mistake in the programming is present,
the problem is more easily remedied.
Nuisance alarms are disabled by (re)configuring the meter to not raise the
unwanted alarm. Unprogramming the meter clears these settings. If the meter
is ever unprogrammed and still connected to a configured NIC module, the
meter will start to log and ultimately report table read notifications. Each
meter will produce hundreds of these notifications every day that it remains
powered and connected in this way. It is expected that this situation could
easily occur in the meter shop. If a DCU is providing coverage to the meter
shop area, these alarms may find their way to the headend before they can be
cleared by the technician as the meter is returned to service.
There are features that the Aclara RF Network system supports which are not
identified on the Customer Configuration Worksheet. These may be found by
studying the list of supported measurements in Supported Measurements on
page 36.
Recommended Meter Configurations
MeterMate is used to configure the meter. As an alternative to using the optical
port on the meter, MeterMate can generate a configuration file which is processed
and transmitted through AclaraONE over the air to the meter. Anything that can be
configured with MeterMate over the optical port can also be configured over the
air.
Restrictions
If the NIC is configured to send up specific measurements in a message (such as a
daily shift message) and the meter is reprogrammed so that it no longer provides
that measurement, it will cause the NIC to supply a known missing read in place of
the required measurement in the message. The NIC should similarly be
reconfigured (reprogrammed) so the message does not require the unavailable
measurement.
The NIC Customer Configuration worksheet is used to establish new NIC
configurations. The following messages are vulnerable to this type of failure:
• The daily shift message
• The demand reset response message
• The on-request read default
Other messages, including LP data, are not vulnerable to this type of failure caused
by meter reprogramming.