PR 5210 Operating Manual  SMA Protocol 
Sartorius  39 
  “MOD” product model identification 
  (response of 2nd ‘B’ command) 
  “REV” software revision 
  (response of 3rd ‘B’ command) 
  “SN_“ serial number 
  (response of 4th ‘B’ command) 
  “END” this is always the last About field 
  (response of the last ‘B’ command) 
 
‘:’  Separator between field name and field contents. 
 
<yyyyyy>  Data field contain 25 characters maximum. 
  SMA field contents <level/revision> 
  where: level= (1, 2, etc.); revision= (1.0, 1.1, etc.) 
 
<CR>  End of About response 
 
 
Example: 
Command Response 
<LF> A <CR>  <LF>SMA:1/1.0 <CR> 
<LF> B <CR>  <LF>MFG:Sartorius <CR> 
<LF> B <CR>  <LF>MOD:PR5210 <CR> 
<LF> B <CR>  <LF>REV:02.09.9 <CR> 
<LF> B <CR>  <LF>SN_:148388723 <CR> 
<LF> B <CR>  <LF>END: <CR> 
 
Note: if the host should ask for additional ‘B’ status then. 
<LF> B <CR>  <LF> ? <CR> 
 
 
5.4.6  Scale Information ‘I’ and ‘N’ Command Response 
Response Format for Information commands ‘I’, ‘N’ (variable length): 
<LF><xxx>:<yyyyyy><CR> 
where:  
<LF>  Start of Information response 
 
<xxx>  About field descriptor is fixed at 3 characters, is left justified, filled with blanks on the 
right side. 
  Following fields are required: 
 “SMA” compliance level/revision 
    (response of ‘I’ command) 
  “TYP”  Scale type: ‘S’= Scale 
    (response 1st ‘N” command) 
  “CAP”  capacity of range, unit-of-measure, count-by and decimal position, 
each delimited by ‘:’ 
  where: yyyyyy= uuu:c..c:n:d 
 uuu= unit-of-measure 
      c..c= full scale capacity of this range  
        (may include decimal point) 
      n= least significant count-by digit 
        (e.g. 1, 2, 5,10,20…) no decimal point 
      d= decimal point position 
 ‘0’= none 
 ‘1’= xxxx.x 
 ‘2’= xxx.xx 
      ‘3’= xx.xxx . . etc.