Carrier WIRELESS STANDARD SENSOR Installation Manual

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Adjusting Wireless Adapter and wireless sensor settingsWireless Sensors CARRIER CORPORATION ©2018Installation Guide All rights reserved41Field NotesType Denotes what the Wireless Adapter is communicating:• The sensor's value as an Input to the i-Vu® application.• An Output value from the i-Vu® application to the sensor.• 2-way communication between the sensor and the i-Vu® application(Input/Output).Heartbeat How frequently the sensor will send its value if no change of value hasinitiated a transmission. This setting in the Wireless Adapter must be greaterthan or equal to the heartbeat setting in the sensor. See To edit a sensor'ssettings (page 41).Tags The sensor will produce the types of values represented by the Rnet tagnumbers. Rnet tags are used in the control program. See the Wireless SensorsApplication Guide for a complete list of Rnet tags.To edit a sensor's settingsYou can edit the settings in individual sensors, or you can create a custom Driver configuration that you can applyto multiple sensors.• To edit individual sensors settings:a. Select a sensor type in the Driver pane, and then press the Learn button on a sensor ofthat type. See step 5 in Pairing sensors to the Wireless Adapter (page 23) for the location of asensor's Learn button.b. In the Devices pane, select the sensor, and then edit its settings in the Deviceconfiguration pane. See table below.c. Right-click the sensor, and then select Send configuration.d. Press the sensor's Learn button.NOTE If the sensor in the Devices pane has a red border, the changes were not sentto sensor. Retry steps c and d.e. Click OK to close the message box.• To create a custom Driver configuration that you can apply to sensors in the Devices pane:a. In the Driver pane, select a sensor type, and then edit its settings in the Deviceconfiguration pane. See table below.b. Press the Learn button on a sensor of that type to have it appear in the Devices pane.c. Right-click the sensor type in the Driver pane, and then select Copy.d. Right-click a sensor in the Devices pane, and then select Paste.e. Right-click the sensor again, and then select Send configuration.e. Press the sensor's Learn button. See Pairing sensors to the Wireless Adapter (page 23),step 4, for the location of a sensor's Learn button.