AH500 Module Manual 
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The parameters are described below. 
Node 
Guarding 
Guard Time   
slave stations according 
to the interval set in the 
Guard Time box. 
If the Heartbeat 
option button is 
selected, the Node 
Guarding option 
button can not be 
selected. 
Life Time Factor 
time×Life time factor 
If a slave station does 
not respond to a master 
station in a life time, the 
master station will 
consider the slave 
station offline. 
Heartbeat 
Node Heartbeat 
Producer Time 
heartbeat message to a 
master station 
according to the time 
set in the Node 
Heartbeat Producer 
Time box. 
The time set in the 
Master Consumer 
Timeout box must 
be greater than the 
time set in the 
Node Heartbeat 
Producer Time 
box. 
Master Consumer 
Timeout 
not receive a heartbeat 
message from a slave 
station after the timeout 
period set in the Master 
Consumer Timeout 
box, the master station 
will consider the slave 
station offline. 
Node List 
on the CANopen network 
created are shown on the 
node list. 
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Heartbeat 
consumer 
assigned an error control 
protocol can monitor 
whether the nodes under 
Heartbeat consumer are 
offline. 
The number of nodes 
under Heartbeat 
consumer varies with 
the device used. 
 
 
After users select a node 
on the node list, and click 
, the node selected will 
be added to the list under 
Heartbeat consumer. 
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After the users select a 
node on the list under 
Heartbeat consumer, and 
click 
, the node 
selected will be deleted 
from the list under 
Heartbeat consumer. 
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Edit… 
After users select a node 
on the list under Heartbeat 
consumer, and click 
Edit…, they can change 
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