TimothyMoulder
Member
Greetings all,
I've been working with Unitronics using modbus and an M91 as remote IO and igt worked like a charm. That said, the only thing I'm dissatisfied with is the size of the panel. To support the M91, I needed relays, a valve stack, terminals, track, etc, and my "IO drop" wound up half the size of my main panel.
So now I'm hunting for some more size-effective remote IO that is RS485 serial modbus based. I'm envisioning something like the Numatics series 2005, integrated comms, inputs and outputs, all with a comm and power cable, that mounts right to the frame of the machine.
I've been doing some digging, and I've found alot of modbus remote IO (wago, a couple of others), but nothing direct machine mount that would not require an enclosure. All the stuff with the physical footprint I'm after (like the Numatics) is devicenet/fieldbus/profibus compatible, but no modbus.
Has anybody seen such a beast? And where?
Thanks!
TM
I've been working with Unitronics using modbus and an M91 as remote IO and igt worked like a charm. That said, the only thing I'm dissatisfied with is the size of the panel. To support the M91, I needed relays, a valve stack, terminals, track, etc, and my "IO drop" wound up half the size of my main panel.
So now I'm hunting for some more size-effective remote IO that is RS485 serial modbus based. I'm envisioning something like the Numatics series 2005, integrated comms, inputs and outputs, all with a comm and power cable, that mounts right to the frame of the machine.
I've been doing some digging, and I've found alot of modbus remote IO (wago, a couple of others), but nothing direct machine mount that would not require an enclosure. All the stuff with the physical footprint I'm after (like the Numatics) is devicenet/fieldbus/profibus compatible, but no modbus.
Has anybody seen such a beast? And where?
Thanks!
TM