Gossen R2600 Network Card User Manual


 
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1.3.2 RS-485 connection
When using a RS-485 interface, as many as 32 equipment (R2600/01 and others) can be connected to the bus.
Thereby, all terminals A, B and/or C are interconnected in parallel. The wiring must be made from equipment to equipment and must not be a star con-
nection. With longer bus lines (longer than about 5 m) the bus should be terminated at both ends with the characteristic impedance
(e.g. 200 between A and B).
When using the 1799-V5040 interface converter on the master, the following pins are connected on the Sub-D plug:
A = 3 B = 8 C = 5
1.4 Principal function
Involved is a master/slave protocol with a fixedly assigned master (e.g. SPS) and as many as 255 slaves (equipment e.g. R2600/01).
Communication is in half-duplex mode.
An equipment connected to the master becomes active (responds) only, when
it receives a valid telegram addressed to itself and
the minimum specified response delay time (t
av) has elapsed so that the host computer has time to get ready to receive data.
Master R2600/01 R2600/01
A 21 21
B 20 20
C 19 19