PCAN-Repeater – User Manual
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3.5
Application Examples
3.5.1
Decoupling of two Bus Segments
The PCAN-Repeater is used to establish a galvanic isolation
between two bus segments. If a connected CAN bus is completely
terminated, deactivate the termination on the repeater. If a CAN bus
is not completely terminated, activate the internal termination for
the appropriate channel. Note that a CAN bus always must be
terminated with 120 Ohms at both ends.
With the switchable listen-only mode, the direction of message
forwarding can be set up as required. With a suitable bit rate (see
chapter 3.1.2) the bus load and errors will be displayed with the
traffic and error LEDs.
Figure 7: Decoupling of two CAN busses
