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Field notes, debugging
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Long-form technical writing on industrial protocols. Mostly Modbus this year. Mostly worked examples. Mostly free of marketing.

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01· Illegal Function02· Illegal Data Address03· Illegal Data Value04· Slave Device Failure05· Acknowledge06· Slave Device Busy08· Memory Parity Error0A· Gateway Path Unavailable0B· Gateway Target Failed
Featured12 May 2026·12 min

Modbus exception codes explained: every code, every cause, every fix.

Exception 01 through 11, what each one really means in practice, and how to chase it down with a frame capture.

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