PPA5xx/15xx communications manual
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Data is returned in scientific format with
exponent and mantissa. The resolution of
the mantissa may be selected to be 5
digit (NORMAL) or 6 digit (HIGH) or 20 bit
(BINARY).
format:
NORMAL (5 digit mantissa)
HIGH (6 digit mantissa)
BINARY (compressed format)
Data format for NORMAL is:
[-]1.2345E[-]00
Data format for HIGH is:
[-]1.23456E[-]00
The sign of the mantissa and exponent
are only sent if negative shown as [-] in
the above examples
BINARY format encodes each non-integer
value in a proprietary 4 byte format for
higher speed data transfer.
[Further notes on data format are
included in section 1.4]
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