- General Electric PMCS Interface Toolkit Installation Guide

EPM 7700 Users Only: When the EPM 7700 device type is selected, an additional

field appears in the Custom Table Dialog box, adjacent to the Device Name (shown

below).

The Node Name field requires that you enter the name of the computer on which the

meter’s Communications Server is located, either the Primary Node or a Full Station

Secondary Node. This field is required because the EPM 7700 does not use the same

DDE Server as the rest of the standard PMCS devices, and the wizard must be

directed to the location of the correct Communications Server for proper

configuration of DDE topic names. For more information on configuring EPM7700

networks, refer to DEH-40035, the GE 7700 Gateway Users Guide, and GEH-6514,

PMCS Read This Book First.

Also, the Application name field must be completed as ION_LINK rather than

GE32MODB or GE32MTCP for the EPM7700 device. The ION LINK program is

installed during initial PMCS setup if the EPM7700 software option is selected.

When configuring Custom Tabular wizards on Secondary nodes, the Application

Name field entry does not follow the PMCS wizard convention of

“\\RemoteComputer\ION_LINK”. EPM7700 Secondary nodes run a local copy of the

ION LINK server; thus the application name is always “ION_LINK” whether the

wizard is installed on the Primary node or a Secondary node.

Finally, the EPM 7700 device type requires special InTouch scripting for the custom

tabular wizard. Refer to the section at the end of this chapter titled Special Scripting

Considerations for the EPM 7700.