CHV180 series frequency inverter special for elevator                  Communication protocol 
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10.    Communication protocol 
10.1 Interfaces 
RS485: asynchronous, half-duplex. 
Default: 8-E-1, 19200bps. See Group PC parameter settings.   
 
10.2 Communication modes 
(1) The protocol is Modbus protocol. Besides the common register Read/Write operation, 
it is supplemented with commands of parameters management. 
(2) The drive is a slave in the network. It communicates in ‘point to point’ master-slave 
mode. It will not respond to the command sent by the master via broadcast address. 
(3) In the case of multi-drive communication or long-distance transmission, connecting a 
100~120Ω resistor in parallel with the master signal line will help to enhance the 
immunity to interference. 
 
10.3 Protocol format 
Modbus protocol supports both RTU and ASCII mode. The frame format is illustrated as 
follows: 
 
Modbus adopts “Big Endian” representation for data frame. This means that when a 
numerical quantity larger than a byte is transmitted, the most significant byte is sent first. 
RTU mode 
In RTU mode, the Modbus minimum idle time between frames should be no less than 
3.5 bytes. The checksum adopts CRC-16 method. All data except checksum itself sent 
will be counted into the calculation. Please refer to section: CRC Check for more 
information. Note that at least 3.5 bytes of Modbus idle time should be kept and the start 
and end idle time need not be summed up to it.   
The table below shows the data frame of reading parameter 002 from slave node