This document provides information about Deep Sea Electronics PLC's GENCOMM protocol for communicating alarm statuses from their DSE series control units. It describes the register structures for reading overall status, active alarms, and alarm conditions. Bit shifting and masking can be used to programmatically check individual alarm statuses within the response values.
This document provides information about Deep Sea Electronics PLC's GENCOMM protocol for communicating alarm statuses from their DSE series control units. It describes the register structures for reading overall status, active alarms, and alarm conditions. Bit shifting and masking can be used to programmatically check individual alarm statuses within the response values.
This document provides information about Deep Sea Electronics PLC's GENCOMM protocol for communicating alarm statuses from their DSE series control units. It describes the register structures for reading overall status, active alarms, and alarm conditions. Bit shifting and masking can be used to programmatically check individual alarm statuses within the response values.
This document provides information about Deep Sea Electronics PLC's GENCOMM protocol for communicating alarm statuses from their DSE series control units. It describes the register structures for reading overall status, active alarms, and alarm conditions. Bit shifting and masking can be used to programmatically check individual alarm statuses within the response values.
DSEGENCOMM PROTOCOL DSE7200, DSE7300, DSE7400, DSE8600, DSE8700, DSE8800 series
GENCOMM ALARMS
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OVERALL STATUS For alarm status, read page 3, register 6 This contains a bit field of status information : Register Name Minimum Maximum Scaling Units Bits/ sign offset value value factor 0 Manufacturer code 0 65534 1 16 1 Model number 0 65534 1 16 2-3 Serial number 0 999999999 1 32 4 Control mode 0 65535 1 16 5 Unimplemented 0xFFFF 0xFFFF 16 6 Control unit not configured No Yes 16/16 Unimplemented 0 0 15/16 Control unit failure No Yes 14/16 Shutdown alarm active No Yes 13/16 Electrical trip alarm active No Yes 12/16 Warning alarm active No Yes 11/16 Telemetry alarm flag Not active Active 10/16 Satellite telemetry alarm flag Not active Active 9/16 No font file No Yes 8/16 Unimplemented 0 0 1/16-7/16 www.deepseaplc.com
ACTIVE ALARMS To find which alarms are active, read page 153 for unnamed (user configured) alarms and page 154 for named (pre-configured) alarms. :
Register Name Minimum value Maximum value Bits/ Sign
offset 0 Number of named alarms 61 128 16 1 Emergency stop 0 15 13/16-16/16 Low oil pressure 0 15 9/16-12/16 High coolant temperature 0 15 5/16-8/16 High oil temperature 0 15 1/16-4/16 2 Under speed 0 15 13/16-16/16 Over speed 0 15 9/16-12/16 Fail to start 0 15 5/16-8/16 Fail to come to rest 0 15 1/16-4/16 www.deepseaplc.com
ALARM CONDITIONS
Condition Meaning Displayed string
0 Disabled digital input None 1 Not active alarm None 2 Warning alarm Active string 3 Shutdown alarm Active string 4 Electrical trip alarm Active string 5-7 Reserved 8 Inactive indication (no string) None 9 Inactive indication (displayed string) Inactive string 10 Active indication Active string 11-14 Reserved 15 Unimplemented alarm None www.deepseaplc.com
GENCOMM ALARMS EXAMPLE
0001111100100011
Binary value Decimal Alarm Status
0001 1 No alarm present 0010 2 Warning alarm 0011 3 Shutdown alarm 0100 4 Electrical Trip alarm 1111 15 Unimplemented alarm in this controller www.deepseaplc.com
GENCOMM ALARMS EXAMPLE
0001111100100011
To check a specific alarm
‘programmatically’ we need to check specific bits. We can do this using ‘bit shifting’ and ‘bit masking’ www.deepseaplc.com
GENCOMM ALARMS EXAMPLE
0001111100100011 Shift Right >> 4 bits 0000000111110010
For example to test the second set of four
bits we first shift the value right four bits. www.deepseaplc.com
GENCOMM ALARMS EXAMPLE
0001111100100011 Shift Right >> 4 bits 0000000111110010
For example to test the second set of four
bits we first shift the value right four bits. www.deepseaplc.com
GENCOMM ALARMS EXAMPLE
0001111100100011 Shift Right >> 4 bits 0000000111110010
For example to test the second set of four
bits we first shift the value right four bits. www.deepseaplc.com
GENCOMM ALARMS EXAMPLE
0000000111110010 AND 0000000000001111 = 0000000000000010
