GETTING STARTED Owner manual

3-6 Setting Up RS-232 Point-to-Point Serial Communications
Setting Up
Communications
in a DriveTools32
Application
Before a DriveTools32 application can communicate with a drive, you must
configure the application.
Important:
DriveTools32 can support only one type of serial connection at a
communications port at a time. If you have previously configured a serial
connection to a 1395 drive, click
Delete
in the
Communications Setup
dialog
box to delete that configuration. You must then restart the DriveTools32
application.
To configure the DriveTools32 application, you need to:
1.
Start the DriveTools32 application.
2.
In the
Options
menu, select
Communication Setup
. The
Communication
Setup
dialog box appears.
3.
Click the
Serial
tab.
4.
Under
Connect Type
, select
RS-232/RS-485 SCANport Point-to-Point
.
5.
In the
Enter INTERCHANGE Port Mapping #
field, type the number of
the KT:0 port used by the DF1 driver in the RSLinx
Configure Client
Applications
dialog box.
Important:
To view the KT port number used by the DF1 driver, select
Configure Client Applications
in the RSLinx
Communications
menu.