Frequently Asked Questions
The aim of this section is to provide engineers with answers to queries that crop up from time to time. This will be constantly expanded, so if you do not see anything suitable please come back later. Alternatively, please contact support and make a request.
General questions
What is RoHS legislation, and are North products compliant?
What is WEEE legislation, and how does this affect North products at their end-of-life?
General Compass queries
Viewing the Compass Network from the ObView
Changing values of Compass driver objects
Connecting to Compass when the PC has no RS232 Com Port
General ObSys queries
Speed issues between ObSys and Compass
Specific driver queries
Configuring the LonSlta interface
Issues with Trend digital values
Using the JBus interfaces with the ModBus protocol
Using the GSMSMS interface with a GSM mobile phone
Determining the contents for a Carrier Dataport system
Advanced ObSys and ObVerse queries
Changing icons for the OffOn and NoYes objects
Running new views in ObView at full screen size
Preventing the editing of finished views