Section 4
1MRK 511 434-UEN A
Commissioning SAM600
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SAM600 Process Bus I/O System
Operation Manual
Connecting the configuration interface
Use a USBA-A cable on port X105 in order to establish a communication to a PC
with PCM600.
For setting up PCM600 and appropriate drivers for communicating with SAM600
modules, see SAM600 engineering manual (1MRK 511 433-UEN).
Connecting the SAM600 system bus
SAM600 modules can be combined into a SAM600 system by connecting the
modules in a daisy chain or ring. The communication link between SAM600
modules is called SAM600 system bus.
Each SAM600 module has two pairs of electrical and optical communication ports
(X103/X104 and X101/X102 if equipped with LC SFP modules). A SAM600
module can interface to the SAM600 system bus with any two of these
communication ports. Edge modules in a daisy chain SAM600 System bus can use
one more port as access point to the process bus.
It is recommended to use an electrical communication port for connecting to a
neighboring SAM600 module deployed in the same marshalling kiosk. For a
communication connection that leaves the kiosk an optical communication port
should be selected.
The ports X106 and X107 on SAM600-TS modules cannot interface
to the SAM600 system bus. These two ports can only interface to
the process bus.
Connecting process bus communication interfaces
Optical communication is typically used for IEC 61850 process bus
communication. For a SAM600 system, ports for IEC 61850 communication are
defined in PCM600.
Depending on the layout and deployment of SAM600 modules, the number of
SAM600 modules in a system results in a scalable number of communication ports
that are available and can be used for IEC 61850 process bus communication.
On SAM600-TS modules two communication ports can be joined into an access
point with communication redundancy according to PRP or HSR standard (IEC
62439-3:2016). It is allowed to combine any two of the SAM600-TS module’s
communication ports into a redundant access point.
Configuration of access points is done in the System Configuration Tool in
PCM600.
