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Appendix
Abbreviations and Acronyms
A.9 Abbreviations and Acronyms used in this Manual
8 CTS Clear to Send
9 RI Ring Indicator
Table A-8. PC (DB9)-to-Model 430 RS-232 Cable Connections
PC (DTE)
DB9 Pin
Model 430 (DTE)
DB9 Pin
1, 6 4
2 3
32
4 6, 1
55
7 8
87
Table A-9. Abbreviations and Acronyms
Term Meaning
AC; ac
Alternating Current; strictly, electrical current that periodically reverses
direction. Typically used also to describe an electrical power source in
terms of the voltage. For example, 240 Vac.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange; numerical
representation of characters such as 'a' or '@' or an action (such as
line-feed); 'plain' raw text with no formatting such as tabs, bold or
underscoring
CR Text Carriage-Return character
CT Current Transducer
CTS DTE clear-to-send signal
DB9
Type of electrical connector containing 9 pins arranged in two parallel
rows of 4 pins and 5 pins each)
DB15
Type of electrical connector containing 15 pins arranged in two parallel
rows of 7 pins and 8 pins each
Table A-7. RS-232 Connector Pin Definitions (Continued)
Pin Mnemonic Function