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Overview - Other Fieldbuses/Coupler |
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Connection of a CAN network
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Article no. BWU1184: CANrho/PROFIBUS Coupler |
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Article no. BWU1246: CAN/PROFIBUS Coupler |
The CAN/PROFIBUS Coupler is the easiest solution to exchange data between CAN and PROFIBUS.
In big applications is often a need to exchange data between a control of a CAN network and another PLC, e. g. to report the process status. This problem was solved in the past with the help of normal I/O modules, with the inputs of the control of the CAN network connected to the outputs of the other PLC and vice versa. With the use of the CAN/PROFIBUS Coupler to solve this problem the installation costs as well as the components costs can be reduced.
The CAN/PROFIBUS Coupler consists of a CAN slave with n bytes (8, 16 or 24 bytes) input data and n bytes output data and a PROFIBUS slave with n bytes input data and 8 bytes output data in one housing. The outputs of one slave are connected to respective inputs of the other slave and vice versa (output data byte 1 of the CAN slave with input data byte 1 of the PROFIBUS slave and vice versa, etc.).
There is a galvanic isolation between CAN and PROFIBUS.
A seven digit display can be used for commissioning and diagnosis.
As long as one of both slaves does not exchange data the other slave reads on each input a 0 as default.