POWER LEADER™ Ethernet Gateway

Chapter 5 – Errors and Diagnostic Messages

Chapter 5 – Diagnostic Messages and Errors

5–1 Monitor Mode

5–2 Processing Error Messages

The Ethernet Gateway can be set to send diagnostic messages to the RS232 port to be displayed on a

terminal (see Chapter 3). These diagnostic messages can be very useful in tracking down errors in configuration or device addressing.

Diagnostic messages sent to the RS232 port in moni- tor mode have the following format:

Table 6 explains what each field means:

Field

 

Meaning

 

 

 

 

 

The relative time of the message in timer

 

 

ticks. This rolls over every

 

 

1,000,000,000 timer ticks.

 

 

Indicates the direction of the message:

 

 

E-n (n = 1,2,3 or 4) indicates a message

 

 

sent from the Ethernet Gateway to

 

 

RS485 port number 1,2,3 or 4

 

 

n-E indicates a message sent from

 

 

RS485 port number 1,2,3 or 4 to the

 

 

Ethernet Gateway

 

 

 

 

 

Header byte added to regular Modbus

 

 

message. Printed as two hex digits.

 

 

Binary data of regular Modbus message.

 

 

Printed as two hex digits.

 

 

 

 

Table 6. Diagnostic messages key.

Table 7 gives error messages that may be generated by the Gateway and displayed at the PMCS host.

Message

Meaning

 

 

Error - Buffer Overflow

One or more buffers have

 

overflowed.

Error - Writing to Flash

An attempt to write to flash ROM

ROM

(drive A) has failed.

 

 

Error - Reading Flash

An attempt to read the flash ROM

ROM

(drive A) has failed.

Table 7. Error message key.

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