Registers of 16 bit unsigned via Modbus 485 Samba 3.5 VisiLogic

[Yukiko]

Hello,

I'm trying to send 15 registers of data via Modbus 485 but each register should have 16 bits unsigned, the MI are signed, Any suggestion without having to use a lot of MB?

Regards

[Joe Tauser]

The Modbus protocol is blind to whether something is signed or not.  All type 4x Holding registers are 16 bit words.

Explain further what you're trying to do - what is the device you're sending to expecting in the sign bit location?

You can also do some tricks with unsigned DW data types.  The Modbus protocol will break them into 16 bit chunks to send them.

Joe T.

[Yukiko]

The Samba PLC is going to be a slave ModbusRTU connected to a gateway iot that works via comm rs485.

And they ask me if i can make the next arrange:

All modbus registers will be type “16-bit unsigned Holding Register” and will use the standard ModBus big endian notation

Inside PLC Samba	Modbus Register	Type	R/W	Value Desired
BOOL	1	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	2	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	3	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	4	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	5	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	6	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	7	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	8	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	9	Number	R	0,1
BOOL	10	Number	R	0,1
MI	11	Number	R	0 - 65535
MI	12	Number	R	0 - 65535
BOOL	13	Number	R	0,1
MI	14	Number	R	0 - 65535
	15
	16
	17
	18
	19
	20

[Fernando Castro]

17 hours ago, Yukiko said:

Hello,

I'm trying to send 15 registers of data via Modbus 485 but each register should have 16 bits unsigned, the MI are signed, Any suggestion without having to use a lot of MB?

Regards

MIs are not signed as @Joe Tauser said you could use it:

 

 

the difference is on how you will use the data in the MI itself  0xFFFF (65535) is interpreted as  -1 decimal, from 0 to 32767 range is 0 to 32767. from 32768 to 65538 is -32767 to -1.

so, if you will use the value in a math operation or in a counter and it happen to be bigger than 32767 then you need to store the value on an ML or do some math to shift the range but the binary value it will still be the same.