Re: [foxboro] FBM230 and DH+
- From: jrmcleish63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:58:58 +1000
As the others have stated you need to have two separate FDSIs. I suppose the
good news is the modbus driver is about 1/4 the price of the AB driver, both
also have 4 ports which is a major improvement over the old gateways/comm30
modules. We have several AB FDSI (230) talking directly to single or multiple
PLC5 and SLC503/4 with out any issues. The block count can get very large very
quickly using up all of the available blocks in your CP. For this reason we
have been putting the larger ones on there own FCP270 which gives you an option
to purchase a gateway/SCADA only license for the CP which is way cheaper than a
normal CP license with IO.
cheers, Rob.
> Donato Azevedo <donatoaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Donato Azevedo <donatoaz@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Johnson, Alex P (IOM)
> > <Alex.Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> To my knowledge, the KF adapter is required to (among other things)
> adapt to the very different physical layer of the AB network.
> >>
> >> Since the FDSI FBM 230 supports only serial links something is needed
> to bridge the gap.
> >>
> >> What's the issue with using the adapter?
>
> Another doubt regarding the FBM230 is: Can I have one port interfacing
> a DH+ network (via a KF2) and another port communicating with a Modbus
> device? Or would I need two independent FBM230 for that?
>
> The PSS says:
> "The FBM230 has four ports - each can be
> individually configured in software for RS-232,
> RS-422 or RS-485. This provides a single FBM230
> the flexibility to connect to multiple similar but not
> identical devices."
>
> regards,
> --
> Donato Azevedo
>
>
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