jcreid
Member
We are in the process of upgrading our ancient Westinghouse motor buckets to the Eaton Freedom series unit. The new Eaton buckets are offered with C440U Ethernet/IP modules for communicating with the electronic overloads.
Our current setup uses discrete contacts for determining whether the motor is running/tripped and that wiring runs back to AC input cards in a SLC 5/05 rack.
The plan is to try and eliminate a lot of the wiring and use the network to communicate with the new buckets. The SLCs will be replaced with CompactLogix PLCs, but I want to make sure I order the right model that will support approximately 50 Ethernet/IP modules.
It appears that the 1769-L37ERM can support up to 64 nodes. Am I correct in assuming I would need a processor that can see a minimum of 50 Ethernet/IP nodes?
Thanks for any help. I'm still getting up to speed on Ethernet/IP.
-Jim
Our current setup uses discrete contacts for determining whether the motor is running/tripped and that wiring runs back to AC input cards in a SLC 5/05 rack.
The plan is to try and eliminate a lot of the wiring and use the network to communicate with the new buckets. The SLCs will be replaced with CompactLogix PLCs, but I want to make sure I order the right model that will support approximately 50 Ethernet/IP modules.
It appears that the 1769-L37ERM can support up to 64 nodes. Am I correct in assuming I would need a processor that can see a minimum of 50 Ethernet/IP nodes?
Thanks for any help. I'm still getting up to speed on Ethernet/IP.
-Jim