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Focused articles about Modbus TCP, OPC UA, network discovery and device diagnostics.

Analog signals 0-10 V and 4-20 mA

Russian article about 0-10 V, 0-20 mA and 4-20 mA signals: history, wiring, scaling, fault diagnostics and comparison.

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RS-485 wiring and terminators

Russian article about differential A/B wiring, twisted pair, common wire, shield, bus topology, 120-ohm terminators and bias resistors.

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Bit-level variable representation

Flags, masks, signed types and REAL Float32 layout: sign, exponent and mantissa.

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Network scanner

ARP, ICMP, TCP ports, Modbus TCP scanner, LIVE and autoscan in FaScan.

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OPC UA and software servers

Why an OPC UA server is needed, how it structures data and publishes tags to clients.

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Modbus map

Old 40001/30001 notation versus function code, offset, type and scale.

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Official Modbus specification

Primary-source links for MBAP, PDU, function codes, addresses and exceptions.

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Modbus TCP message structure

MBAP, PDU, Unit ID, Function Code, register address, request and response.

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Modbus TCP errors

Exception response, Modbus error codes and diagnostics in FaScan traffic window.

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