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Now a dialogue window will appear. In this dialogue window, select “Generic Ethernet module” and press OK.
Figure 7
Selecting the Generic Ethernet Module.
In the next dialogue window, RSLogix 5000 will ask for information regarding the communication to the
Catalyst module. First enter a name for the Catalyst module
. In the example below we call it “RACO
Ethernet”. This name will create a tag in RSLogix 5000, which can be used to access the memory location in the
PLCs memory where the data for the Catalyst module will be stored. A description can also be added, but that is
optional.
Figure 8
Configuring the module properties.
Next step is to select the “Com Format”, which tells RSLogix5000 the format of the data
. In our example, we
have selected Data-SINT, which will represent the data in the Catalyst module as a field of 8-bit values. It is also
