Installation guide
PV Clinics Installation Manual 21/07/11 01.00 3
Contents
Revision History ............................................................................................................................................... 2
Contact details .................................................................................................................................................. 2
Contents ............................................................................................................................. 3
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 7
1.1 General description........................................................................................................................... 7
1.2 The Software package ...................................................................................................................... 8
1.2.1 Contents ............................................................................................................................... 8
1.2.2 PC Hardware requirements ................................................................................................. 8
1.2.3 Software registration ............................................................................................................ 8
1.3 Diagram of Information flows .......................................................................................................... 9
1.4 Modbus ............................................................................................................................................. 10
1.4.1 Overview ............................................................................................................................ 10
1.4.2 Modbus Maps .................................................................................................................... 10
Addresses and Offsets .................................................................................................................. 10
Data size ........................................................................................................................................ 10
1.5 Communications ............................................................................................................................. 11
1.5.1 Overview ............................................................................................................................ 11
1.5.2 Modbus RTU RS485 .......................................................................................................... 11
1.5.3 Modbus RTU RS232 .......................................................................................................... 12
1.5.4 Virtual COM ports .............................................................................................................. 12
1.5.5 Modbus TCP ...................................................................................................................... 12
Copper Ethernet Links ................................................................................................................... 12
Fibre-optic Ethernet links ............................................................................................................... 12
Modbus Gateways ......................................................................................................................... 12
2. Installation ........................................................................................................... 13
2.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................... 13
2.2 Planning ........................................................................................................................................... 13
2.3 Setting up the Control room PC Software .................................................................................... 13
2.3.1 Installing the MySQL Database ......................................................................................... 13
MySQL Versions ............................................................................................................................ 13
Password ....................................................................................................................................... 13
MySQL community edition Installation options .............................................................................. 14
2.3.2 Install MySQL ODBC Connector ....................................................................................... 14
2.3.3 Install PV-Clinic Runtime ................................................................................................... 15