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Electrical installation
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Operation manual
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Electrical installation
4.1
Setup
PROFIBUS DP consists of at least one bus segment. One segment consists of at
least two but not more than 32 stations. They are all physically connected with a
bus cable. One of the stations is the master. The master is the active station on
PROFIBUS. It can send or request data to/from other stations. The slaves are the
passive stations on PROFIBUS. They can only exchange data with the master
when the master requests this.
Terminating resistors must be placed at the beginning and the end of the bus.
Fig. 4-1 Setup of a bus segment
If more than 32 stations are to operate on a bus or the maximum line length of a
bus segment is exceeded, several bus segments must be coupled via RS 485
repeaters. The maximum number of masters and slaves within one bus segment
must be decreased by one for every repeater used. The maximum number of
masters and slaves over the entire bus system is 126. The maximum line length
depends on the baud rate being used. The table below gives you the maximum
permissible lengths for one segment and for all segments.
We strongly recommend NOT using stub lines in the setup. This is only permitted
during commissioning. This bus system is usually set up with shielded, two-wire
lines (RS 485). It can also be set up for special applications via fiber-optic
conductors. STÖBER Antriebstechnik offers the coupling to the two-wire line.
This permits a maximum distance of 10,000 m. When suitable measures are
taken on the master side, slaves can be coupled or decoupled during operation
without having to interrupt data communication on the bus.
These distances only apply with suitable bus cable!
Baud rate
one segment
all segments
9.6 to 187.5 kBaud
1000 m
10000 m
500 kBaud
400 m
4000 m
1.5 Mbaud
200 m
2000 m
3 to 12 Mbaud
100 m
1000 m
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Station with circuited
terminating resistor