Page 108 Foundation Fieldbus RMA803 Remote Indicator User's Guide Revision 4
Troubleshooting the Signal Characterizer block
Table 33: Signal Characterizer block
Problem cause Things to check Recommended action
Signal characterizer
block mode is in OOS
and does not change
to AUTO mode.
Read
MODE_BLOCK.PERMITTED.
Add AUTO mode to
MODE_BLOCK.PERMITTED.
Read MODE_BLOCK.
ACTUAL of Resource block.
If necessary, Set
MODE_BLOCK.TARGET to
AUTO.
NOTE:
If the mode is set to OOS for
maintenance, then do not change
the mode to AUTO.
Mode does not
change from OOS
Configuration error.
BLOCK_ERR shows the Block
Configuration Error condition,
due to array configuration errors.
Value of output is
incorrect
Error in X or Y array. See section 3.
Block alarms are not
reported.
Read FEATURE_SEL Reports are not selected in
FEATURE_SEL. If features do
not include reports then the host
must poll for alarms.
Read LIM_NOTIFY Set LIM_NOTIFY to a value
higher than zero, but not higher
than MAX_NOTIFY.