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 .
--- Shows the actual measurement values.
--- The faults page.
--- The device info page.
--- The maintenance page. The configuration parameters described below are set at this page.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) |