MINI RECEIVER WITH FIELD BUS
USER MANUAL
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4. SETTING THE SLAVE (RECEIVER)
In order to use the Mini RX as a network device, a logical and physical configuration is required to
accomplish with the appropriate communication conditions.
4.1 NODE ADDRESS
To establish communication between the device and the bus, you must first define the node address
in the device. The default address is 5, but the address can be modified by accessing the rotary
switches of the expansion board to set the tens and units of the address number. To do this, open the
equipment and access the selectors (Fig. 8).
Possible addresses range from 00 to 99 using each selector as a digit.
Fig. 8.- BCD rotary switches
In the case of Ethernet bus, the address of the module would become 192.168.0.XX where XX
corresponds to the value selected by the selectors on the board, from 00 to 99. The IP of the Ethernet
bus module does not necessarily have to be in range 192.168.0.x. It can be configured by disabling
the selectors to assign the desired IP through the network configuration software or through a specific
application "HMS-IPConfig" for IP assignment.
4.2 BAUD-RATE
It is not necessary to set a communication speed. The fieldbus expansion module is capable of
automatically detecting the communication speed through the bus.
For ETHERNET formats it operates at
10
or
100 Mbit
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Tens
Units
