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3.2.6 WRD Reading D Registers/I Relays on a Word-by-word
Basis
● Function
Reads a sequence of contiguous register information starting at the specified register
number on a word-by-word basis, by the specified number of words.
• The number of words to be read at a time is 1 to 64.
• For the format of response in the event of failure, see subsection 3.1.2.
• The command shown below includes the checksum function. When performing
communication without a checksum, do not include the 2-byte checksum command
element in the command.
● Command/Response (for normal operation)
Number of Bytes • • •12 2244 4 2 11
CR
Response
Element
STX OK dddd1 dddd2 ETXAddress
number
(ADDRESS)
CPU
number
01
• • • ddddn Checksum
The response is returned in a 4-digit character string (0000 to FFFF) in a hexadecimal pattern.
Reads data of the specified number of words
ddddn is a character string in a hexadecimal pattern.
n=1 to 64
Number of Bytes 1 2 213 5 1 2211
Command
Element
STX Address
number
(ADDRESS)
CPU
number
01
Register
number
Comma
or space
Number
of words
(n)
Checksum0 WRD ETX CR
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● Example:
Reading the output value of the VJ Series signal conditioner with communication address-1.
The following command reads the output value (
D0008) at communication address-1.
[Command]
[STX]01010WRDD0008,0178[ETX][CR]
With respect to the above command, the output value 500 (01F4 (HEX)) is returned as
response (50.0% is expressed as 500).
[Response]
[STX]0101OK01F437[ETX][CR]
500 in decimal (output is 50.0%)
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3rd Edition : Oct. 15, 2007-00