eWON500™
The Transparent Gateway
ver 1.0
9/11/05
Page 4
User Guide
The UNITELWAY/XIP gateway configuration
Hardware configuration
• Set up eWON™
dip switches
to
RS485 mode
(
with
or without polarization depending on your network type)
• Connect the
serial cable
between your eWON500™ and the PLC (see page 13)
IO server configuration
• Go to the
UNITE
IO server page:
Configuration
/
IO Server Config
/
UNITE
/
Edit
• Validate the
eWONServer
Enabled
checkbox
•
Modbus TCP Unit Address
: holds the UnitID from the eWON
• Set the
Baud Rate
,
Parity
and
Stop Bit(s)
according to your device, and
HW Mode
to
Half Duplex
• Let
Master response timeout
,
Rx message timeout
and
Tx message timeout
empty (default values applied)
• Let
Force Unitelway V2
and
Disable 0,254 translation
unchecked
• Set the
ADO
field to its default value (
4
)
•
XWAY Network.Station
: must be identical to the one entered in the XIP driver configuration (i.e.
13.14
)
PLC software configuration
• From your PLC management software (typically PL7Pro), configure the XIP driver with the eWON IP address as
destination node and with the UnitId of the targeted device (different than the Modbus TCP Unit Address from the eWON)
• Make an ICMP ping and test the XWAY driver, then Connect to the PLC
You are now connected to your PLC through your eWON500™
• Please refer to the Troubleshooting section from this document in case of an issue
