
WIZ2-434
Instruction Manual
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This procedure is good for WIZ2 modules’ use in the industry, where PLCs can be instructed to operate on
machines or questioned to monitor sizes. Being not equipped with the adequate logic, in order to handle the
data string that composes the answer to a possible interrogation, the WIZ2 remote module places,
therefore, at the head of the data from the PLC, its own address so to avoid that the so originated packet, is
understood, from the other slave modules present in the system, as a command coming from the master
module (the head placed address shall cause the reply rejection from all other users of the system, taking
into consideration the unique addressing).
(*) this device will avoid that a reply packet coming from a slave module, is understood, by an other slave
module as its own, in case the address starts with the same 1st byte of the data packet.
Note:
The destination module address is shown as a binary value.
For instance: the value ‘4’ has to be understood as an integer number (binary configuration 00000100) and
not as an ASCII type “4” which corresponds to a decimal value 52 whose binary configuration is 00110100.
It is suggest to pay attention to the conversion between decimal values and ASCII types.
The WIZ2 “packing system” does not utilize sequences of escape types, therefore it places, at the user
disposal, the 256 combinations of the ASCII 8 bits coding.
Before sending a new data packet to the serial gate it is necessary to wait till the previous packet’s RF
transmission is over. All data entering the serial gate during the RF transmission forwarding phase, are
bound to be irremediably lost.
It is therefore suggested to the User that, during the administration software writing, to pay very much
attention to a correct timing of the data packets going out from the PC’s serial gate, specially when the
packets’ length is variable. Infact, if it is decided to forward a long packet followed by a short one, it is
necessary to wait all the time required by the RF transmission of the long packet before sending, to the
serial gate, the short one.
The packet's RF transmission time T is given by:
T = 3.6 mS + (NumByte+2) x 0.156 mS
Example #1 -Packet lenght: 1 Byte
Transmission time T= 4.1 milliseconds
Example #2 -Packet lenght: 32 Byte
Transmission time T= 8.9 milliseconds
Example #3 -Packet lenght: 96 Byte
Transmission time T= 18.9 milliseconds
It is suggested to add, precautionally, few mS to the RF transmission time between the dispatch of a packet
and the subsequent one.