Anybody ever worked with an F-switch?
I'm still at the point of trying to figure out the safety system, but have to use this piece of hardware. The initial confusion is why for a module with 2DI and 3DO that the address space is several bytes for inputs and outputs.
For example, on the first rack, and F-switch is placed into slot 7. The address space is Inputs: Bytes 9 through 15, Outputs (bytes 9 through 13). Why so much space for the addressing?
I'm trying to find out what should be fairly simple things: how are the two actual inputs addressed, the three outputs, and what's taking up several bytes of I/O memory.
I have looked at the Siemens documentation and it's just not popping out at me. If anybody can lead me to a good tutorial or any training material on Siemens F systems I would truly appreciate it. Thanks.
I'm still at the point of trying to figure out the safety system, but have to use this piece of hardware. The initial confusion is why for a module with 2DI and 3DO that the address space is several bytes for inputs and outputs.
For example, on the first rack, and F-switch is placed into slot 7. The address space is Inputs: Bytes 9 through 15, Outputs (bytes 9 through 13). Why so much space for the addressing?
I'm trying to find out what should be fairly simple things: how are the two actual inputs addressed, the three outputs, and what's taking up several bytes of I/O memory.
I have looked at the Siemens documentation and it's just not popping out at me. If anybody can lead me to a good tutorial or any training material on Siemens F systems I would truly appreciate it. Thanks.
