Chapter
4
Technical information
EFI
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Technical realization
4.5
Application examples
4.5.1
EFI gateway with M4000 multiple light beam safety device
The (F)PLC can access the M4000 via the routing in the EFI gateway. In this way it can
send muting signals to the M4000 and receive output information (e.g. from M4000
OSSDs).
Used addresses via EFI: 14 for the EFI gateway, 1 for the M4000
Fig. 13: Example data
exchange between an (F)PLC
and an M4000 via an EFI
gateway