User Manual V 1-4.XX User guide

Using the SCANport Capabilities 8-7
For a mask parameter:
Setting the SCANport Faults You can specify how you want to be notified if SCANport loss or
communication errors occur.
Setting the Loss of Communications Fault
You can specify how you want to be notified if SCANport loses the
connection to a port.
The following table shows which bits correspond to which ports:
For example, if you want a fault condition to be reported if
communication is lost with device 3, you would set bit 11 of Fault
Select 1.
The SCANport device number is determined by the SCANport
connection it is plugged into.
If a bit is: Then the control function is:
Clear (0) Disabled
Set (1) Enabled
If you want a
communications
loss to be:
Then:
Reported as a fault
Set the appropriate bit in Fault Select 1 (parameter 20)
corresponding to the SCANport device number.
Reported as a
warning
Set the appropriate bit in Warning Select 1 (parameter 21)
and clear the bit in Fault Select 1.
Ignored
Clear the appropriate bit in both Fault Select 1 and Warning
Select 1.
To specify this device: Set this bit:
SCANport device 1 9
SCANport device 2 10
SCANport device 3 11
SCANport device 4 12
SCANport device 5 13
SCANport device 6 14
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ATTENTION: Hazardof personal injury or equipment
damage exist. If you initiate a command to start motor
rotation (command a start or jog) and then disconnect
the programming device, the drive will not fault if you
have the SCANport communications fault set to be
ignored for that port.