N5 Modbus RTU Online Manual

Communication settings

Slave address, baud rate and parity are dependent on the position of the S1 and S2 rotary switches and, if applicable, on objects 2028h, 202Ah, 202Dh.

Configuration Object Value range Factory settings
Slave address 2028h 1 to 247 5
Baud rate 202Ah 7200 to 256000 19200
Parity 202Dh
  • None: 0x00
  • Even: 0x04
  • Odd: 0x06
0x04 (Even)
The number of data bits is always "8" here. The number of stop bits is dependent on the parity setting:
  • No parity: 2 stop bits
  • "Even" or "Odd" parity: 1 stop bit

The following baud rates are supported:

  • 7200
  • 9600
  • 14400
  • 19200
  • 38400
  • 56000
  • 57600
  • 115200
  • 128000
  • 256000

You must save the changes by writing value "65766173h" in object 1010h:0Bh. The changes are not taken over until after the controller has been restarted.

Rotary switch

The N5 is equipped with two hex coding switches – similar to that shown in the following figure.

You can set the source for the slave address, the baud rate and the parity using the combination of numbers from both rotary switches.

The following applies here: the combination of numbers is formed using rotary switches S1 and S2, where S1 represents the higher-value byte and S2 the lower-value byte

Example

Switch S1 is set to the value "0h", switch S2 to the value "Fh"; the result is the value "0Fh"="16d".
Switch S1 is set to the value "Ah", switch S2 to the value "1h"; the result is the value "A1h"="161d".
Number combinations of the rotary switches Slave address Baud rate and parity
dec hex
0 0 Object 2028h Object 202Ah or 202Dh
1-247 1-F7 Number of the rotary switches Object 202Ah or 202Dh
248-255 F8-FF 5 19200, even Parity
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