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Figure 16 - RS485 multi-drop connection
3.7.4 Message structure
The message structure and command set are the same for RS485 and RS232 options. To communicate a message to
the nEXT pump, the characters must be sent in a specific order. If the message does not conform to the correct
structure it will be ignored and no reply will be sent.
The correct structure to use is as follows:
a valid start character, either a '!' character for a store operation or a '?' character for a query operation,
followed by
a command, which will be an upper case alphabetical character, followed by
an object number, comprising three decimal digits, followed by
for some commands only, a data field, comprising a sequence of characters separated from the object
number by a space, followed by
a terminating carriage return
The message protocol in multi-drop mode is marginally different, refer to Section 3.7.6.
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