Chapter 11 RS485 Communication
11-2-1
11.2 Explanation of Modbus-RTU Function Codes
11.2.1 Read Coil Status [01h]
 How to read multiple coil statuses on Modbus communication?
 Reads the coil status (ON/OFF).
 An example of read the state of input terminals 1 to 7 of the inverter at slave address 1 is shown
below. The status of input terminals 1 to 7 are as follows.
Coil start No. = (Coil No.) - 1
*1. Broadcasting is disabled.
*2. Note that the starting number is 1 less than the actual register number. Specify a number of
"(Register No.) - 1".
*3. If the number of read coils exceeds 0 or 32, an exceptional response of exception code "03 h"
is returned.
*4. Data of the number of data bytes is transferred.
 The coil data for the response is from coil number 0007h to 000Dh with coil 0007h as LSBs
(0bit). If the coil data is not in 1byte (8-bit) units, the higher order bit is extended with zeros to
1byte (8-bit) units.