How to Test a Channel with Identification and Mirror Requests
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This page indicates the procedure for testing a communication channel by means of Identification and Mirror requests.
How to Identify a Station
The following procedure is used to identify a designated station.
Step
Actions
1
Select the server address (Ad0)of the slave to be interrogated using the Slave field.
2
Click the Identification button.
Result: The response appears in the Receive Response window:
How to Send the Mirror Request
The following procedure is used to send the Mirror request and thus to test the routing of information between two devices.
Step
Action
1
Select the server address (Ad0)of the slave to be interrogated using the Slave field.
2
Click the Mirror button.
Result: The following window appears:
3
Enter the length of data to be sent (maximum 80 characters).
4
Click the Send button.
Result: The response appears in the Receive Response window:
The response contains the character string ABCDEFGH that corresponds to the length of data sent 8.