Delta DNA?

[integrator]

Good-day,

I'm getting really confused with what the DNA is used for? We have a DSC 1212 controller which has a address of 200. We need to make it between 4-127 for MS/TP.

Is the DNA used for this? Or is the dip switched used for this? We are connecting net1 for MS/TP and net2 for a Delta BACstat.

Another question - Isn't the net2 using a different communicaiton then MS/TP if we are talking to a Delta BACstat??


Thanks for any light on this

[berg2666]

Good-day,

I'm getting really confused with what the DNA is used for? We have a DSC 1212 controller which has a address of 200. We need to make it between 4-127 for MS/TP.

Is the DNA used for this? Or is the dip switched used for this? We are connecting net1 for MS/TP and net2 for a Delta BACstat.

Another question - Isn't the net2 using a different communicaiton then MS/TP if we are talking to a Delta BACstat??


Thanks for any light on this

Check on the orcaview CD and there is PDF's which explain a lot of this.

Bacstat ??????Model number of it.

[MathMan]

Actually, the DNA switch is used to select either hardware or software adressing, while the dip switch are used to address the controller. The reason for software or hardware addressing are hard to explain in one post, but generally if you only have devices connected on MS/TP you only have to use hardware adressing. Also I would recommend not having addresses higher than 99 on the same network.

For the second question, the net2 on a DSC1212 can use either MS/TP or LinkNet communication. Open up the device object, click on config tab and you can select which port is using Linknet.

[GONFISHN]

DNA is derived network address. There should be a jumper to select whether DNA is to be used or not. When using DNA if your dipswitches are set to one the address will be one hundred. Set to two it will be two hundred etc. Any module on the subnet will be 101,102,103 or 201,202,203 etc.