Ken Roach
Lifetime Supporting Member + Moderator
I'm looking at Profibus DP repeaters, and have been reading datasheets and user manuals.
The website for the Procentec model B1 repeater refers to "the frustrating short-circuit bug" of Profibus DP repeaters.
What is it referring to ?
My guess is that an unpowered repeater might look like a short circuit to the connected Profibus DP network, but that's a complete spitball guess.
Can anyone shed some light on this ? I've dispatched an e-mail to Procentec but would like some independent perspective.
My goal is to use several repeaters to allow a single Hilscher NT50-MPI gateway to access four otherwise independent Profibus DP networks, one at a time.
The website for the Procentec model B1 repeater refers to "the frustrating short-circuit bug" of Profibus DP repeaters.
What is it referring to ?
My guess is that an unpowered repeater might look like a short circuit to the connected Profibus DP network, but that's a complete spitball guess.
Can anyone shed some light on this ? I've dispatched an e-mail to Procentec but would like some independent perspective.
My goal is to use several repeaters to allow a single Hilscher NT50-MPI gateway to access four otherwise independent Profibus DP networks, one at a time.