Data Interfaces
Configuring the Data Interface as a COM Port 
(datprot)
You can confi gure the interface as a COM port in either COM1 or UniCOM, “Data 
Protocol” (datprot) menu item.
  SBI Communication  This is a simple ASCII interface.
Data output is confi gured under menu items 6.1 and 6.3: 
–    Manual output of displayed value with or without stability (menu items 6.1.1 
and 6.1.2)
–    Automatic output of displayed value with or without stability (menu items 6.1.4 
and 6.1.5) at intervals defi ned by display updates. The number of display 
intervals is set in menu item 6.3.
–    Output of a confi gurable printout (menu item 6.1.7). Output is linked to the 
“Printouts” menu item (datprot), (see page 96 “Confi guring Printouts”)
If you do not activate and confi gure a user-defi nable data record, the printout 
simply contains the current value displayed on the display and control unit (weight 
with unit, calculated value, alphanumeric display).
  SMA Communication  Standardized communications protocol of the Scale Manufacturers Association
  MP8 Binary  Using the MP8 interface, you can connect MP8 generation peripheral devices with 
their own power supply to Combics.
–    The scale is only used to determined the weight value
–    The data interface only supplies the MP8 binary protocol
–    The application program for MP8 can be selected under menu item 3
–    The program index 2 for MP8 can be selected under menu item 4
–    The MP8 interface cannot be used in legal metrology
  Profibus  See special description
  Ethernet  –    With the SBI, SMA and XBPI communications protocol
–    Modbus/TCP similar to the profi bus data format