ushidayo
Member
Hello,
I have a customer who wishes to replace some Sattcon200 PLCs with Mitsubishi Q series PLCs. To keep the costs down, I think it would be a good idea to keep the existing I/O and only change the CPU, power supply, comms modules etc.
The Sattcon200 uses Flex I/O (I believe this is the same as AB Flex I/O) with a special adapter to connect the I/O to the CPU backplane.
My idea is to replace the adapter modules with AB Devicenet Flex I/O adapters and then connect to a Devicenet master module installed in the Mitsubishi Q series PLC.
The manuals I have read seem to show that this setup is possible. But as I have never mixed AB and Sattcon Flex I/O equipment or used the Mitsubishi Devicenet module, I am a little bit uncertain whether it would work. Your knowledge and opinion would be gratefully received.
Also, to keep the costs down is it possible to have two or more masters with associated slaves running together on the same physical Devicenet network? (each master would only try to access it's associated slaves not the slaves of other masters).
Kind Regards
Alastair
I have a customer who wishes to replace some Sattcon200 PLCs with Mitsubishi Q series PLCs. To keep the costs down, I think it would be a good idea to keep the existing I/O and only change the CPU, power supply, comms modules etc.
The Sattcon200 uses Flex I/O (I believe this is the same as AB Flex I/O) with a special adapter to connect the I/O to the CPU backplane.
My idea is to replace the adapter modules with AB Devicenet Flex I/O adapters and then connect to a Devicenet master module installed in the Mitsubishi Q series PLC.
The manuals I have read seem to show that this setup is possible. But as I have never mixed AB and Sattcon Flex I/O equipment or used the Mitsubishi Devicenet module, I am a little bit uncertain whether it would work. Your knowledge and opinion would be gratefully received.
Also, to keep the costs down is it possible to have two or more masters with associated slaves running together on the same physical Devicenet network? (each master would only try to access it's associated slaves not the slaves of other masters).
Kind Regards
Alastair