OutBack Power Serial Communications Guide

Mate Serial Communication Guide Copyright 2007 © OutBack Power Systems, Inc.
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MX/FM Status Page
The status page the Mate emits for each MX connected is 49 Bytes long. Referring to the Figure 9 the
byte definitions are as follows:
Figure 9
1. ASCII (10) New Line character denoting the start of the status page.
2. MX/FM address.
3. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
4. Unused, ASCII (48).
5. Unused, ASCII (48).
6. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
7. Tens digit of Charger current.
8. Ones digit of Charger current.
9. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
10. Tens digit of PV current.
11. Ones digit of PV current.
12. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
13. Hundreds digit of the PV input voltage.
14. Tens digit of PV input voltage.
15. Ones digit of PV input voltage.
16. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
17. Tens digit of Daily kWH.
18. Ones digit of Daily kWH.
19. Tenths digit of Daily kWH.
20. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
21. Unused, ASCII (48).
22. Tenths of amp Charger current (FM80 / FM60 only)
23. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
24. High byte of Aux mode.
25. Low byte of Aux mode.
26. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
27. High byte of Error mode.
28. Middle byte of Error mode.
29. Low byte of Error mode.
30. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
31.
High byte of charger mode.
32. Low byte of charger mode.
33. ASCII (44) a comma as a data separator.
Start of Status Page
MX Address
Separator
Unused
Separator
Charger current
Separator
PV current
Separator
PV voltage
Separator
Daily KWH
Separator
Charger Current tenths
Separator
Aux mode
Separator
Error modes
Separator
MX Charger mode
Separator
Battery voltage
Separator
Daily AH
Separator
unused
Separator
Chksum
end of status page
ASCII code
10 X 44 48 48 44 X X 44 X X 44 X X X 44 X X X 44 48 X 44 X X 44 X X X 44 X X 44 X X X 44 X X X X 44 48 48 44 X X X 13
Byte 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49