Experimental Physics and
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"Cobb, TM (Tom)" <[email protected]> · Mon, 19 May 2008 08:43:20 +0100

Also, ip has support for the Eurotherm 2000 series El-Bisync protocol.
We're currently using the Eurotherm2k.db database to communicate with a
2400 series Eurotherm controller. 

Link to EPICS hardware support page:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/manufacturer.php#Eurotherm

Many thanks,

Tom Cobb,
Diamond Light Source Ltd.
Diamond House
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 0DE
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0) 1235 778582

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Rivers
> Sent: 17 May 2008 21:24
> To: David Maden; Steve Lewis
> Cc: Keith Kishiyama; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Looking for support for Eurotherm 2404 PID
> 
> Steve,
>  
> I just looked at the Eurotherm online documentation.  The 
> 2416 and 2404 can each be ordered with several different 
> communications protocols (Modbus, El-Bisync).  It is encoded 
> in the part number (YM=2-wire RS485 Modbus, etc.).
>  
> Looking at the Modbus manual for the 2400 series:
>  
> http://www.eurotherm.com.au/control/product/comms/2000_mb_m_ha
026230_2.pdf
>  
> it looks like my Modbus driver should work.  You just need to 
> define the register addresses for each function in your database.
>  
> Mark
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: [email protected] on behalf of David Maden
> Sent: Sat 5/17/2008 10:43 AM
> To: Steve Lewis
> Cc: Keith Kishiyama; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Looking for support for Eurotherm 2404 PID
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Lewis wrote:
> > The Eurotherm 2404 PID is a temperature controller that uses the 
> > Modbus protocol over a serial .  Does anyone have a 
> streamdevice/asyn 
> > protocol or any other device/driver support for it?
> 
> We are controlling a couple of furnaces via a Eurotherm 2416 
> with RS-232-C interface. I don't know if it uses the same 
> protocol as the 2404 though, but our code might be a starting 
> point for you.
> 
> The protocol of the Eurotherm 2416 includes BCC checksums, 
> which Dirk Zimoch's stream driver couldn't handle at the time 
> I wrote the EPICS support. As a result, our code is flat 
> EPICS database of soft records with an snl program calling 
> functions to send and receive messages to the device via a 
> pseudo-terminal VxWorks device driver.
> 
> Regards, David
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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