Measurement Specialties 9116 Read Module Status Command ‘q’, Firmware Version, as hex value

Pressure Systems, Inc. Model 9116 User’s Manual

READ MODULE STATUS (Command ‘q’)

Purpose: Returns requested module status information.

Command	“qii”
	‘q’ is the command letter
	‘ii’ is the status index field

Response	“hhhh”
	‘hhhh’ is a 4-digit hex datum (or other (**) decimal datum

Description: The 2-digit hex index field (ii) chooses a particular status field to be returned. Returned value is described in the following table for each index (a third column shows any ‘w’ command index for setting same option.

	ii		returned value		‘w’ set
			4-digit hex or other decimal (**)		index
00			Module’s Model Number, as decimal (**) integer value (e.g, 9116).
01			Firmware Version, as hex value
			(expressed internally as integer version * 100).
			(e.g. hex ‘0100’ = 256 decimal, means Version 2.56)
02			Power-up Status, as 16-bit hex bit map, bits having the following
			meaning:
			Bit 0 (LSB): A/D Failure Error.
			Bit 1: Transducer Re-zero Adjustment (offset) Term Range Error (out-
			of-range values set to 0.0 internally).
			Bit 2: Transducer Span Adjustment (gain) Term Range Error (out-of-
			range values set to 1.0 internally).
			Bit 3: Temperature Correction Coefficients Not Present or Out-of-Range
			(if transducer has one or more bad coefficients, all set to 0.0).
			Bit 4: reserved (for transducer checksum)
			Bit 5: FLASH Initialized Data Section Checksum Error (if error, all data
			variables set to factory defaults and stored in FLASH).
			Bit 6: SRAM Error.
03		reserved
04		reserved
05			Number of A/D Samples To Average, as hex value (e.g., 000A=10	10
			decimal).

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