Chapter 9 – Weights & Measures
Firmware Version 3/4.31.37
8.13 FCM HEALTH STATUS
The FCM Health Status feature can be used to detect intermittent communication failures between the MultiLoad
II and the internal I/O board or external FCMs.
1. From the Diagnostics Menu, select FCM Health.
2. The View FCM Health Status screen displays:
3. After making a repair, press the CLR key to reset the totalizers. Then return to this screen to determine the
effectiveness of the repair.
Flow Control Module number. I/O board-1Meter is 00 and 2-Meter is 00 and 01.
A timeout occurs when MultiLoad II does not receive a response from the internal I/O board or
external FCM after a poll is sent. The MultiLoad II interprets three consecutive timeouts to mean
that communications with the internal I/O board or external FCM has been lost. The Timeouts
totalizer increments each time a timeout occurs.
The Com Lost totalizer is incremented whenever three consecutive timeouts have occurred.
Displays the firmware revision number or Err if communications are currently lost with the internal
I/O board or external FCM.
VIEW FCM HEALTH STATS
FCM# Timeouts Com Lost Ver
00 000000000 000000000 036
CLeaR Next Prev Exit
D I A G N O S T I C S M E N U
Card Reader Meters
COM Loopback Components
Serial Ports Additives
Network Test Sampler
Keypad Tanks
Display Custom Logic
Unicode
FCM Com
PCM Com
FCM Health
PCM Health
RCU
Bay
Preset
Next Prev Exit Enter