
3.CREATING AND EDITING SEQUENCE PROGRAMS B-63484EN/05
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3.6.2 Models and Quantity of Usable Characters
The types of characters usable in message text vary depending on the
CNC/PMC model. See the following table for details.
Table 3.6.2
Characters that can be entered
JIS level-1/-2 kanji set
Half-size
kana
Alphanumeric
characters
Some kanji characters cannot be displayed.
Ladder Editing Package (Windows) cannot check
whether they can be displayed.
Usable Usable
NOTE
1 Lowercase letters (a to z) are converted to
uppercase (A to Z) when entered.
2 Up to 65,535 characters can be used in messages
in total with PMC-SA1, SA3, SA5, SB3, SB4, SB5,
SB6, SC3, and SC4.
Specifically, the number of characters in messages
are counted starting at message No. 1, when the
message edit function ends. Only the first 65,535
characters are accepted. Others are deleted.
3 With the PMC-SB7, up to 512,000 characters can
be used in messages in total, but the number of
characters is limited depending on the total capacity
of the sequence programs.
3.6.3 Memory Addresses Required to Display Messages
The range of the addresses that can be specified and the number of
messages are different for each PMC. Refer to the Ladder Language
Programming Manual.