I was wondering I have some inputs coming into DCS by MODBUS, and want to configure the SI array points. Some are just real values coming in, other are whole words that are a bunch of alarms. Was wondering should I config array point as a string or numeric?

I was originally going to go with a numeric and depending on the value coming in get a program to tunr on flags in hpm, But I want to see the heartbeat bit doing its thing so was wondering if I built is as a string(16) could I write a program that looks and all 16 bits individually?

 

I understand SI array points in TDC3000 are of 4 type. Flags, Numeric, String and Time. One array point can handle only one type of data. You can define multiple array points each of different type. As such you should be able to build Numeric array point as well as String array point.
For further help click the link below.
http://tasker.us/source/honeywell/serial_interface/op01_501_serial_interface_options.pdf

 

>I understand SI array points in TDC3000 are of 4 type.
>Flags, Numeric, String and Time. One array point can handle
>only one type of data. You can define multiple array points
>each of different type. As such you should be able to build
>Numeric array point as well as String array point.
>For further help click the link below.
>http://tasker.us/source/honeywell/serial_interface/op01_501_serial_interface_options.p

Yes that is correct about the types of arrays you can build, from the programs I have seen they have always used numerics or flags and derived what alarm was present at the time by what the numeric equalled. But where I will have several bits always going on/off or multiple bits on at once, the numeric could be a wide variety of values.

I was just wondering if anyone had experience programming CL with a string array, I think it gets addressed as array.str1(x) where x is the bit u want to look at.

anyway thanks for the link