Communicating with Devices on a DH+ Link

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Status Field

Word(s)

Description

Transmit confirm

24

Number of SDA messages successfully sent to and acknowledged by the addressed station

 

 

 

Transmit NAK full

30

Number of times the station received a NAK to a message because the destination station was

 

 

full

 

 

This indicates that messages are being sent to the receiving station faster than the PLC-5

 

 

controller can process them. Most likely, more than one station on the DH+ link is sending

 

 

messages to the same station. Check to see that you are:

 

 

not scheduling unnecessary traffic (e.g., your are sending continuous messages when you only

 

 

need updates once per second)

 

 

implementing report-by-exception so that data is sent only if it is new data

 

 

 

Transmit NAK misc.

25

Number of incoming SDA messages that were NAKed due to reasons other than the NAKed full

 

 

and NAKed inactive counters (e.g., a NAK due to a bad CRC)

 

 

 

Transmit not ACKed

27

Number of SDA messages that were sent but were not ACKed by the receiving station

 

 

The following could have occurred:

 

 

message could have been NAKed

 

 

an invalid ACK was returned

 

 

nothing was returned

 

 

This counter can indicate:

 

 

a noise or a cabling problem

 

 

the receiving station has been removed from the link

 

 

the receiving station cannot communicate

 

 

 

Transmit NAKed SAP

31

Number of SDA messages that were successfully sent to but were NAKed by the addressed

 

 

station because the SAP specified in the message was illegal

This counter should always be 0.

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