Devicenet IO Problem (SST/Siemens)

[jimbo3123]

Does anyone have experience with a SST Devicenet IO adapter?
It looks like SST has been bought by Woodhead, and they make/sell the adapter I have (5136-DNS-200), but i'm getting the run-around in terms of support for how to configure it.

I need to have a .eds file that has the details for the IO modules that I have attached. I found a manual for a configuration utility that appears to be what I need to generate that .eds file. However, I'm having no luck in tracking down the configuration utility itself. Not even a word of if/where it is for sale.

The IO adapter is distributed by Siemens BTW, and Siemens & SST(Woodhead) are each pointing the finger at the other in terms of support for this device.

 

[RMA]

The IO adapter is distributed by Siemens BTW, and Siemens & SST(Woodhead) are each pointing the finger at the other in terms of support for this device.

Some things never change, I had Siemens Simatic/Step7 and Fujitsi-Siemens (PCs) pointing the finger at one another for over a year for spurious crashes on the PC. Only when I finally got the PC really heavily loaded viewing a big S7-GRAPH program at the same time using the PC as operator console with ProTool Pro did I manage to get reproducible crashes. After changing everything else, the fault turned out to be in the Pentium IV processor. Apparently it got flaky when it got warm enough.

 

[jimbo3123]

Well, my customer mannaged to track down the configuration software that we needed. We still have some work cut out to get the thing up and running, but now I think we at least have the necessary tools.

 

[Ken Roach]

I guess that makes sense, that you have to create a unique EDS for each configuration of modules for that adapter. The Rockwell modular I/O platforms all have little applets in RSNetworx for DeviceNet that allow us to configure the various modules.

Where did you find the utility ? What sort of DNet master are you using ?