Instruction Manual
Publication 1753-UM001C-EN-P - March 2010 269
Communicate with ASCII Devices Chapter 21
Connect Signals
Only ASCII output signals are sent from the controller. You connect
signals to the ASCII outputs to determine which signal values you
want to send from the controller to the connected ASCII device.
1. Expand Protocols, right-click the ASCII icon and choose Connect
Signals.
2. Edit the output signals you want to send to the ASCII device.
• Use the Outputs tab to define output values to send to the
ASCII device.
• Associate each output with a signal from the signal editor by
dragging the signal from the Signal Editor to the Signal field
on the Outputs tab in the ASCII Signal Connections dialog
box.
• Refer to the Using RSLogix Guard PLUS! Software With
GuardPLC Controllers Programming Manual, publication
1753-PM001, for more information on defining signals.
If you want to Choose this tab
create a new signal New Connected Signal
renumber offsets sequentially for all signals New Offsets
delete the selected signal Delete Connected Signal
The signal name is used
only in printouts.