Owner's manual

ASCII I/O Module Tutorial
Chapter 4
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5. Transfer your message for display on the industrial terminal.
Refer to the procedures in section titled “Writing Data To Your ASCII
Device” (chapter 1), if necessary.
Procedure P1 Connect the 1770CB cable, and set the industrial terminal
to alphanumeric mode (check parameters)
Procedure P6 Enable the MVF instruction. With the PLC3 in run monitor ,
enter I001:04 and enable that bit; then I001:02 and enable
that bit (in that order)
Results The industrial terminal displays your message.
PRODUCED XXX PARTS
The value XXX is the instantaneous accumulated value of the free
running timer at the moment you enabled bit I001/04.
When formatting a multi-line or multi-column message, use the ASCII
equivalent of the following control codes for positioning the message.
Control Codes
Hex or ASCII Equivalent
CTRL P
Column number
;
Line number
A
10
38 (fixed in this example)
3B
36, 37, 38,...
41
When you enter the ASCII equivalent of these control codes into the
message file, they will position the cursor at the column and line number
that you specify.
Position Codes BCD Diagnostic BCD
Home Col # Line #
A Del Codes Del
1041 1038
1038
3B36
3B38
41
41
3A
3A
00000000
00000000
3A
3A
3A
00
00
0D*
* OD = endofstring delimiter
Formatting a MultiLine Message