1.353 Mesa-WNT

This page describes the device driver and the device window for the Mesa-WNT device. This device reads the wind speed and direction values from the Mesa WNT sensor.

Device window pages

The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type. Tool-bar functions not mentioned here are described at the general description of device windows .

Configuration parameters

At the maintenance page of the device window there are a couple of configuration parameters which must be set to make the software talk to the alarm monitoring input at the PLC.

parameter description
address Leave this field empty, the sensor does not require a device address.
Serial Remember to set the line parameters for the serial interface to 4800,N,8,1 , no handshaking.

Remarks

Variables defined by this device driver

name type flags range
info.driver TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
lowLevel.cmd TEXT StringRange
lowLevel.reply TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
faults.99 ALARM R/O AlarmFlagRange R/O (Communication)
faults.commstat TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.type TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.port TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.frame TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
speed FLOAT R/O DoubleRange R/O (0.0 .. 99.0)
speed2 FLOAT R/O DoubleRange R/O (0.0 .. 360.0)
direction INTEGER R/O IntegerRange R/O (0 .. 359)
hiThreshold FLOAT SAVE DoubleRange (0.0 .. 99.0)
faults.01 ALARM R/O AlarmFlagRange R/O (Measuring section)
faults.02 ALARM R/O AlarmFlagRange R/O (Speed HI threshold)