Dear Sirs,
I have three 'large' machines with lots of Profibus devices - Siemens PLC I/O boxes and Masterdrives and some MicroMaster drives. The computer has two PLC's inside it - one is a hardware PLC, and the other is a software PLC which uses a CP5613 card to communicate with its Profibus. (There are three Profibus's running off that one computer.)
I've built up a 'fake' fourth machine which is nothing more than the computers and PLC's of the system. It works . . . but my PLC's all show lots of errors - no doubt because I have no profibus's attached to them.
My question. Can I plug profibus connectors into the ports and enable the terminator resistor and (hopefully) correct at least some of the errors? Or will terminating, say, that CP5613 card damage something?
Regards, Poet.
I have three 'large' machines with lots of Profibus devices - Siemens PLC I/O boxes and Masterdrives and some MicroMaster drives. The computer has two PLC's inside it - one is a hardware PLC, and the other is a software PLC which uses a CP5613 card to communicate with its Profibus. (There are three Profibus's running off that one computer.)
I've built up a 'fake' fourth machine which is nothing more than the computers and PLC's of the system. It works . . . but my PLC's all show lots of errors - no doubt because I have no profibus's attached to them.
My question. Can I plug profibus connectors into the ports and enable the terminator resistor and (hopefully) correct at least some of the errors? Or will terminating, say, that CP5613 card damage something?
Regards, Poet.