Hi, Niclas, good story :)
The unit id does get used a fair bit with Modbus TCP. Especially on Modbus RTU to Modbus TCP gateways where you access each Modbus RTU slave on the TCP side using the unit ID. I've also seen some VSDs that will also use a couple of different IDs for different data tables. Ben On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 3:10 AM Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2021-08-12 17:56, Christofer Dutz wrote: > > Those tasks are always my favorites :-) > > > > Helping people without having to do anything ;-) > > A long time ago, a church bell in a French village was out of tune and > they sent for a bell master to come and fix it. And sure enough an old > man came, they let him hear the awful bell sound. He borrowed a ladder, > picked a big hammer out of his luggage and climbed the bell tower. Once > up there, he whacked the bell once, then climbed down and told them to > ring the bell again. It now had the perfect sound as it was intended. > He handed them the bill of 1011 Livres, a small fortune even for this > relatively prosperous village. "How come so much? Only took you 10 > minutes and no material.". The bell master explained, "1 Livre for wear > on the hammer, 10 Livres for the long travel and 1000 Livres for knowing > where to hit." > > > Cheers > Niclas >
