Profibus to RS232

Alan_W · Mar 27, 2009

Can anyone reccommend a UK supplier of a Profibus To Serial converter which can be remotely mounted

TIA

Mutttt · Mar 28, 2009

Anybus - good kit. Routeco sell it in the UK, among others

Mrslipmat · Mar 29, 2009

Hey Alan W, what kind of kit are you working with ? by saying Profibus it sounds like it,s siemens ? what are you trying to acheive ?

John

Alan_W · Mar 30, 2009

I'm working with Siemens S7.

I have a printer mounted remotely from the PLC but there is a Profibus cable near the printer. The printer can be controlled through its RS232 port so Inned something I can connect to the Profibus and allow commands to be sent/received from the printer.

Mrslipmat · Mar 30, 2009

Hi Alan

Ok siemens themselves do several units that will acheieve what your looking for, depending upon distances etc you could possibly use a profibus repeater station as Profibus is actually siemens speak for RS485. The repeater station has a DB9 female socket on to connect a laptop to, you could use this to give you the physical connection to the profibus then convert it to RS232.

John

Alan_W · Mar 30, 2009

Thanks for your ideas, I'll look into them

Mutttt · Mar 30, 2009

Sounds like a very expensive solution. Could you not use a simple print server and run a bit of cheap cat 5 cable connecting via ethernet

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