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IMPORTANT NOTE:
Use a unique Station ID for each XIO. The ID is limited to ten characters. It is
recommended to limit special characters to spaces or underscores (
_ ).
Table 4-3: Required station setup
Required entry
Format
Description
Station ID
10-digit
alphanumeric
Name that uniquely identifies each installed XIO. This name is
detected by remote controllers (using Auto Discovery) and must be
unique. It is recommended not to leave the factory default name
even when installing a single XIO.
Location
24-digit
alphanumeric
Describes the physical location of the device, such as the county
name or road number.
Date/Time
MM/DD/YYYY
HH:MM:SS
(24-hour clock)
Date and time must agree with the collection equipment.
For initial installations, if you replied “yes” to the request to
synchronize data and time with your laptop when you connected
with the device for the first time, you do not need to change these
values.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The XIO Station Setup function: Automatically Synchronize Time with
Controller, sets the time of the XIO to match that of the remote controller it connects to
(within a
small margin of error)
. The purpose for this synchronization is to correlate events and logs on both
devices.
The recommendation is to turn synchronization on. If installing several XIOs for connection
to an ABB remote controller, synchronizing each XIO to the controller means there is no need to
individually synchronize each XIO to the laptop at first time connection.
Figure 4-13: Basic XIO configuration (unique XIO Station ID required)