19.10.1.2 Alarm Settings (Block 1) - Bit Monitoring

Configure settings to trigger the Alarm by monitoring a bit's ON/OFF state.

Bit Monitoring

The alarm is triggered when the monitoring bit address turns ON (OFF).

Jump

Go to a specific row number.

Auto Allocation

The [Address Auto Allocation] dialog box appears. Configure settings to allocate addresses from the [Start Address] by specified increments.

Start Address

Set the Bit Address that will start the Auto Allocation.

Added Bits

Set the number of Bit Addresses (from 1 to Alarm limit - Current row position + 1) for Auto Allocation.

Increase Address By

Set the number of bits to add during an Auto Allocation, from 0 to 4096.

Trigger Condition

Sets up if the alarm is triggered when the monitoring bit address turns ON or when the monitoring bit address turns OFF.

History/Log/Active

Displays current display mode set in the [Common] tab.

19.10.1.1 Alarm Guide

Number of Units

Set the number of units. Depending on the specified number of units, a rung for setting the Monitoring Address will be added. You can specify separate Monitoring Addresses for multiple units of the same message. A maximum of 256 units can be set for each block.

Polling Frequency

Set the Polling Frequency for reading the Alarm Monitoring Device.

Read Data From Each Alarm

Specifies whether or not Alarm message data is read.

Number of Addresses

Read data values from 1 to 8. Adds the [Common Address] setting rows to the set number of addresses. The address setting column will be available for input in the Alarm List.

Use Same Address

Sets whether or not address data values are read in all the messages in the block regardless of the Alarm Message. In the address setting column, you cannot set anything from the second row onward.

Number

Displays the Alarm Message registration number (Row Number) from 1 to 2048.

Unit Name

Rows are inserted according to the number of units specified in [Number of Units]. Unit names can be up to 32 single-byte characters. You can also use data from the Text Table. When an alarm occurs, the Unit Name + Message is displayed as the Alarm Message.

Bit Address

Set the Bit Address to monitor the alarm trigger.

Trigger Condition

Sets up if the alarm is triggered when the monitoring bit address turns ON or when the monitoring bit address turns OFF.

Message

Set an alarm message within 160 single-byte characters.

Level

Each Alarm Message is ranked by importance from 0 (least important) to 7 (most important). The initial setting is "0". The Trigger, Acknowledged, and Recovery colors for each level can be set with the Alarm Part.

19.10.2.5 Show History - Color Settings

Group

This item is displayed only when [Enable the Group feature] is selected in the [Common] tab. Set a group number to each alarm message within the range between 0 and 6096.

19.10.1.1 Alarm Guide

Sub Display Screen Number

When using an Alarm part for a Sub Display, select the desired Base Screen Number from 0 to 9999, or the Text File Number from 0 to 8999.

Specify the Index numbers of the play list file for playing movies.

Addresses 1 to 8

Sets Addresses to read Alarm Message data.

The input rows become available for the addresses specified in [Number of Addresses].

Type

Select the address type from either [Bit] or [Word].

Address

Sets read data addresses.

  • You can set an external device/PLC address, an internal address, a symbol variable, and a system variable for a Bit Address.

Bit Length

Choose the data bit length from [16 Bit] or [32 Bit].

 

Data Type

Choose the data format of the value stored in [Word Address] from [Dec], [Hex], [BCD] or [Float].

Use for negative numbers. This can only be set when the [Data Type] is [Dec].

Select whether or not fractional values will be rounded off when data is displayed. Values to the right of the decimal point will be discarded if rounding off is not selected. This setting is available when [Data Type] is [Float].

Data Display Style

Specify digits for display values from 1 to 11. When selecting [Float], the range of the digits is from 1 to 17. "Total Display Digits - 1" is the maximum range for the number of digits after the decimal point. The range depends on [Bit Length] and [Data Type].

Bit Length

Data Type

Total Display Digits

Decimal Places

Setting Range

16 bit

Dec

1 to 11

0 to 10

Hex

1 to 11

-

BCD

1 to 11

0 to 10

32 bit

Dec

1 to 11

0 to 10

Hex

1 to 11

-

BCD

1 to 11

0 to 10

Float

1 to 17

0 to 16

Select the display position of a value from [Align Left] or [Align Right].

If this option is selected, leading zeros are not displayed.

For example, Number of Display Digits = 4

Displays the data image according to the settings.