User's Manual

Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction .........................................................................5
1.1 About the addWAVE A73x...............................................................5
1.2 Compliance Statement and Warnings .............................................6
1.3 Conventions .....................................................................................7
2 Using the A73x RTU ............................................................9
2.1 Opening the packages .....................................................................9
2.2 Installing the RTU...........................................................................10
2.3 Special notes for the A733GSM RTU ............................................11
2.4 Field Installation .............................................................................13
2.5 More about the LED tool ................................................................14
2.6 Configuring an A73x RTU in the addVANTAGE
software..........................................................................................15
2.7 Maintaining and servicing the RTU................................................15
2.7.1 The RTU battery.............................................................................15
2.7.2 Changing the battery......................................................................16
3 Performing Advanced Functions.....................................19
3.1 Understanding connectors .............................................................19
3.1.1 The RTU connectors......................................................................19
3.1.2 The POWER Connector.................................................................20
3.2 Communicating with the RTU ........................................................21
3.3 Serial communication protocol.......................................................22
3.3.1 General format of a command .......................................................22
3.3.2 General format of an answer .........................................................22
3.4 Using terminal commands .............................................................23
CMDS.............................................................................................23
TIME...............................................................................................23