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The user can then modify the
Connection Name
,
Path
and
RPI
as required.
3.6.5.2.
ETHERNET/IP EXPLICIT MESSAGE DEVICE CONNECTIONS
Up to 10 EtherNet/IP devices can be added for explicit messaging. The user will need to add
each device as explained in the EtherNet/IP Devices section below. Once the EtherNet/IP
devices have been added the user can then configure the required mapping for the
EtherNet/IP Explicit messaging as shown in EtherNet/IP Map section below.
A.
ETHERNET/IP DEVICES
This tab is enabled when the Ethernet Mode is set to
EtherNet/IP Originator
.
The EtherNet/IP Devices configuration is shown in the figure below. Up to 10 EtherNet/IP
devices can be configured with up to 50 EtherNet/IP mapped items allowing for either explicit
EtherNet/IP Class 3 or Unconnected Messaging (UCMM) to any of the 10 configured devices.
The data from each EtherNet/IP device is written to, or read from, an Internal Data Space with
a size of 100Kbytes. See the
Explicit EtherNet/IP Messaging
section for more details.
The EtherNet/IP Devices configuration window is opened by either double clicking on the
module in the tree or right-clicking the module and selecting
Configuration
.
Figure 3.102
–
EtherNet/IP Devices - Configuration