User Manual Owner's manual

Publication 1797-6.5.2 - February 2001
About the FLEX Ex Thermocouple/RTD/mV Input Module 1-5
Data Formats and Fault Modes
The tables below shows the bit settings for the data formats and fault
modes for your FLEX Ex thermocouple/RTD/mV module.
Data Formats
Fault Mode
Chapter Summary
In this chapter, we told you about the FLEX Ex system and the
thermocouple/RTD/mV module, and how it communicates with
programmable controllers.
Bit 11 10 09 08 Data type for channels 0 thru 7
0000
o
C (see note)
0001
o
F (see note)
0010
o
K (see note)
0 0 1 1 -32767 to +32767
0 1 0 0 0 to 65535
0101 thru 1111 not used
Note: Module defaults to -4000 to 10,000 in millivolt mode, and 0 to 5000 in ohms mode
Bit 06 Fault enable for channels 0-3
07 Fault enable for channels 4-7
0 = disabled
1 = enable wire-off detection