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STAC5 Hardware manual
920-0026 Rev. B
4/22/2011
Connecting the Drive to Your PC using Ethernet
This process requires three steps
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Physically connect the drive to your network (or directly to the PC)
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Set the drive’s IP address
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Set the appropriate networking properties on your PC.
Note: the following pages are an excerpt from the “eSCL Communication Reference Guide”. For more information, please read the rest of
the guide.
Addresses, Subnets, and Ports
Every device on an Ethernet network must have a unique IP address. In order for two devices to communicate with each other, they must
both be connected to the network and they must have IP addresses that are on the same subnet. A subnet is a logical division of a larger
network. Members of one subnet are generally not able to communicate with members of another unless they are connected through
special network equipment (e.g. router). Subnets are defined by the choices of IP addresses and subnet masks.
If you want to know the IP address and subnet mask of your PC, select Start…All Programs…Accessories…Command Prompt. Then
type “ipconfig” and press Enter. You should see something like this:
If your PC’s subnet mask is set to 255.255.255.0, a common setting
known as a Class C subnet mask, then your machine can only talk to
another network device whose IP address matches yours in the first three
octets. (The numbers between the dots in an IP address are called octets.)
For example, if your PC is on a Class C subnet and has an IP address
of 192.168.0.20, it can talk to a device at 192.168.0.40, but not one at
192.168.1.40. If you change your subnet mask to 255.255.0.0 (Class B)
you can talk to any device whose first two octets match yours. Be sure
to ask your system administrator before doing this. You network may be
segmented for a reason.
Your drive includes a 16 position rotary switch for setting its IP address.
The factory default address for each switch setting is shown in the table to
the right.
Settings 1 through E can be changed using the STAC Configurator software
(use Quick Tuner for servo drives). Setting 0 is always “10.10.10.10”, the
universal recovery address. If someone were to change the other settings
and not write it down or tell anyone (I’m not naming names here, but you
IP Address*
0 10.10.10.10
1 192.168.1.10
2 192.168.1.20
3 192.168.1.30
4 192.168.0.40
5 192.168.0.50
6 192.168.0.60
7 192.168.0.70
8 192.168.0.80
9 192.168.0.90
A 192.168.0.100
B 192.168.0.110
C 192.168.0.120
D 192.168.0.130
E 192.168.0.140
F DHCP
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E D C B A
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