
Operating Instructions
Chapter
6
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Fieldbus gateways
Switch
Function
× 10
Address switch 1
10 position rotary switch for setting the module address (tens)
× 1
Address switch 2
10 position rotary switch for setting the module address (ones)
How to set the PROFIBUS DP address via hardware address switches:
Set the PROFIBUS DP address using the hardware address switches on the device front.
Then switch the Flexi Soft system off and back on again.
How to set the PROFIBUS DP address via software using the Flexi Soft Designer:
Set the two hardware address switches on the device front to “00”.
Open the Flexi Soft Designer and load the hardware configuration including the
PROFIBUS DP gateway. Ensure your project is offline.
Click on the
Gateways
button above the main window and select the FX0-GPRO or
double click the FX0-GPRO in the hardware configuration view to open the gateway
configuration dialog.
Click on
Gateway configuration
on the left hand menu. The following dialog appears:
Select the PROFIBUS address in the
PROFIBUS address
field.
Click
Connect
to go online and transfer the configuration to the Flexi Soft system.
The address that can be set via the hardware address switch ranges from 1 … 99.
The address that can be set via the Flexi Soft Designer software ranges from 3 … 125.
The PROFIBUS master cannot overwrite the address.
A modified address setting only becomes effective after switching off and switching on
the Flexi Soft system.
In online mode, you can read the address set on the PROFIBUS DP gateway by clicking
on the
Read
button above the
PROFIBUS address
field.
Tab. 84: Address switch
FX0
>
GPRO
Fig. 57: Setting the
PROFIBUS address for the
FX0
>
GPRO
Notes