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In the Settings menu, touch the Diagnostics tab.

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Touch the Variable button.

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Select Equipment: touch the up/down arrow to select the equipment whose variables you want to test.

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In the Variable menu, touch the Go Offscan button, the following message appears:

Warning: Entering the Variable Test screen pauses communication with all equipment. Continue?

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Touch the OK button to restart the system, or the Cancel button to return to the Variable menu.

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If Go Onscan is pressed, the test reads the value for each variable associated with the selected equipment. If any of the variables detects a problem, because of a detected error in the equipment or a time-out, the event log displays a message with the name of the variable.

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After you complete testing variables from one equipment, you can continue testing variables for other equipment connected to the target machine.

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Alternatively, you can test all equipment at once by selecting Test All in the Select Equipment drop-down list.

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Touch the Return button to return to the Diagnostics menu.

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In the Settings menu, touch the Diagnostics tab.

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Touch the Statistics button.

NOTE:

When you write any value to this system control word, touch the Rollover button to:

oCopy the values in the current statistic variables to the previous statistic variables.

oReset current statistic variables to zero.

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In Show Stats for: touch the up/down arrow to select the equipment whose variable statistics you want to show.

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Touch the right arrow button to view the next display.

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Touch the Go Offscan button to start the test.

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Touch the right arrow button to view the next display.

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Total Good: the total number of received variables without detected error.

Total Bad: the total number of detected errors of all types.

Total Count: Total Good + Total Bad.

No Reply: no reply was received in response to the request.

Chksum Fail: received a request or response (1) with an incorrect checksum.

Wrong Addr.: received a request or response (1) with an incorrect address.

Error Resp.: received a detected error response from the equipment.

(1): Master-type drivers send out requests and receive responses. Slave-type drivers receive requests and send responses.

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Touch the next arrow button to view the next display.

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Inv. Resp.: received a response that contained a protocol detected error.

Init. Fail: initializing communications with the equipment was unsuccessful.

Write Fail: writing a new value to the equipment was unsuccessful.

Intrn Error: internal driver detected error indicates improper driver configuration or driver problem.

Xmit Fail: transmitting a request or response was unsuccessful.

Unsupp. Req.: received a request for an unsupported service.

Inv. Request: received a request that contained a protocol detected error.

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Touch the Return button to return to the Diagnostics menu or the previous arrow button to view the previous display.