IRC5 Basic initial devicenet setup

antsrealm

Hi,

We have recently purchased an IRC5 controller and it has the single devicenet fieldbus connection for I/O etc.

We have a DSQC 652 I/O board connected to the devicenet Bus and have the MS light lit green and the NS light flashing green. Also the devicenet card in the controller has the HLT light green and the comms light is off.

My question is how do I  go about establishing the comms with the I/O board first of all and secondly how to address it.

I have access to the documentation CD but cant seem to find a procedure to follow to get this setup. Can someone please offer some guidance to get this working.

** We are using robot studio as well.

Thanks,

Tony.

SjoLi

The canbus connection on the board is 12 pins long instead of the normal 5.

The fisrt 5 are for canbus (0V/CAN L/DRAIN/CAN H/V+)

The node adress can be ajusted using nr 6-12 on that connector.

Connect nr's 6/7/11/12  noted as 0V/NA0/NA4/NA5 with a bridge and use adres 14 in the I/O parameters

First define the unit type

then define the unit

then define the signals for the unit

See the example below

EIO_UNIT_TYPE:

      -Name "d652" -BusType "DNET" -VendorName "ABB Robotics"

      -ProductName "24 VDC Unit" -DN_VendorId 75 -DN_ProductCode 26

      -DN_DeviceType 7 -DN_ExplicitMsgEnabled  -DN_C1Type "COS"

      -DN_C1OutputSize 2 -DN_C1InputSize 2

# 

EIO_UNIT:

      -Name "NAME_BOARD" -UnitType "d652" -Bus "DeviceNet1" -DN_Address 14

# 

EIO_SIGNAL:

      -Name "NAME_SIGNAL" -SignalType "DI" -Unit "NAME_BOARD" -UnitMap "1"

# 

SjoLi2012-10-03 13:10:33

antsrealm

Thank you for your response. There was already an existing unit type called d652. Does that mean I just need to add the unit and select that predefined d652 as that units, unit type.

There was already shorting links in those terminals you mentioned. I did not realize that was determining the node address.

I will see how I go with this. 

Thanks again.

SjoLi

That is correct, only the adress may not be double so you wil have to give it adres 15 for example