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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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END USER LICENSE & SOFTWARE WARRANTY AGREEMENT ...............................................................4
1.1
T/GUARD FAMILY AND NEOPTIX PROBE WARRANTY NOTICE ..................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................................................8
2.1
T/GUARD-LINK FL (FLUORESCENCE TECHNOLOGY) PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS..................................................... 10
2.2
CALIBRATION........................................................................................................................................................... 12
2.3
TRANSFORMER APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................. 12
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UNPACKING ............................................................................................................................................................ 13
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T/GUARD-TGL™ HARDWARE REFERENCE................................................................................................. 14
5
SERIAL COMMAND PROTOCOL DESCRIPTION ......................................................................................... 17
5.1
USING HYPERTERMINAL IN WINDOWS.................................................................................................................... 17
5.2
SERIAL COMMAND HELP MENU ................................................................................................................................ 17
5.3
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE ASCII COMMANDS .............................................................................................. 18
5.3.1
Recommended configuration, for transformer applications........................................................................... 20
5.3.2
Interpretation of “y” command results .......................................................................................................... 21
5.4
TYPICAL TEMPERATURE READING SEQUENCE.......................................................................................................... 21
5.5
ERROR CODES .......................................................................................................................................................... 22
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OPTILINK-II SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION (FOR THE TGL-FL) ................................................................. 23
6.1
INSTALLATION AND INITIAL OPERATION .................................................................................................................. 23
6.2
ACQUIRE AND DISPLAY TEMPERATURE DATA ........................................................................................................ 24
6.2.1
Data Acquisition, Logging and Graphing Rates ............................................................................................ 25
6.2.2
Graphs............................................................................................................................................................. 26
6.3
OPTICAL CHANNEL SETTINGS TOOL ......................................................................................................................... 26
6.4
SERIAL PROTOCOL PARAMETERS ............................................................................................................................. 27
6.5
FIRMWARE UPDATE TOOL ........................................................................................................................................ 27
6.6
TROUBLESHOOTING ................................................................................................................................................. 27
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THE MODBUS PROTOCOL ................................................................................................................................. 29
7.1
CONFIGURING THE MODBUS OPTION ....................................................................................................................... 29
7.2
SUPPORTED SERIAL TRANSMISSION MODE ............................................................................................................... 29
7.3
RTU TRANSMISSION MODE ...................................................................................................................................... 30
7.4
MODBUS FUNCTION CODE AND REGISTER ADDRESSES ............................................................................................ 30
7.4.1
Register content details ................................................................................................................................... 30
7.5
MODSCAN EXAMPLES .............................................................................................................................................. 33
7.5.1
Monitoring multiple T/Guard ......................................................................................................................... 34
7.5.2
Writing parameters ......................................................................................................................................... 35
7.5.3
Data logging ................................................................................................................................................... 35
7.6
USING OPTO-ISOLATORS, TO DEAL WITH GROUNDING PROBLEMS ........................................................................... 36
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RS-485 CONVERTERS ........................................................................................................................................... 37
8.1
RS-485 TO USB CONVERTER................................................................................................................................... 37
9
USING THE TEMPERATURE PROBES ............................................................................................................. 38
9.1
CAUTION .................................................................................................................................................................. 38
9.2
DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................................................................... 38
9.3
WARNING................................................................................................................................................................. 39
9.4
WORKING WITH LONG PROBES................................................................................................................................. 39
9.5
WORKING WITH CRYOGENIC PROBES....................................................................................................................... 39
9.6
INSTALLING PROBES IN POWER TRANSFORMERS ...................................................................................................... 39
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INDEX .................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Document no. G1041r03
Copyright Neoptix Canada LP
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