PR 5210 Operating Manual SMA Protocol
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“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.