User manual
Planning Your Application Program 
#aaSiCj 
Chapter 6 
Name  Read One Channel Counter (Frequency) Data 
Description  The command will return the input value from one of 
the four channels of a specified module. 
Syntax #aaSiCj(cr) 
# is a delimiter character. 
aa (range 00-FF) represents the 2-character hexadeci- 
mal Modbus address of the ADAM-5000/TCP sys- 
tem you want to interrogate. 
Si identifies the I/O slot you want to interrogate. 
Cj identifies the channel you want to read. 
(cr) is the terminating character, carriage return (0Dh) 
Response >(data) if the command is valid. 
?aa(cr) if an invalid operation was entered. There is 
no response if the module detects a syntax error or 
communication error or if the specified ad- dress 
does not exists. 
> is a delimiter character. 
? delimiter character indicating the command was 
invalid. 
(data) is the input value in engineering units of the 
interrogated module of the specified system. If the 
numbers of (data) are ten ,counter/frequency mode 
is in decimal format. If the numbers of (data) are eight, 
counter/frequency mode is in hexadecimal format. If 
(data) = “ “, it means the channel is invalid. 
(cr) is the terminating character, carriage return (0Dh) 
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