# Central Station

In general, a Central Station is a site hosting a computer that manages many RTUs. It serves as a data logger, data archive, report generator, and operation hub. Specifically for the purposes of the Catalyst, a Central Station is a PC running DOS or Windows and the RACO DOS SCADA application.

Note: Central Station is only available on S-model units.

Use the SCADA "Installation Test" procedure to configure the RTU with a new fully enabled Central Station destination, an RTU "device number", followed by a confirming callback.

Be sure the RTU lists at each Central Station are identical. There is currently no way to validate conformance.

To learn more about RACO SCADA, please contact your RACO representative.

To maintain backward compatibility requirements with the Verbatim® Gateway, there is some configuration rules for supporting RACO SCADA communications with the Catalyst. Specifically:

Channels 1 - 32 must be DISCRETE channel type:

· SNAs of type DISCRETE must be used.

· Any transformation that would make the type INTEGER or IEEE32 is illegal.

· Altering a PIO point configuration to ANALOG will clear down the SNA for all channel s in this range using that point.

Channels 33 - 48 must be INTEGER or IEEE32 channel type:

· Using a DISCRETE SNA is allowed, but then the RAW transformation becomes illegal.

· Altering a PIO point configuration to DISCRETE will clear down the transformation and format options for all channels in this range using that point.

Channels 49 - 56 must be DISCRETE channel type:

· SNAs of type DISCRETE must be used.

· The violation condition can only be set to status only.