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Ladder communication, 1 overview – Yokogawa JUXTA M Series Digital Limit Alarms MVTK User Manual

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4.

Ladder Communication

4.1

Overview

The use of Ladder communication enables the M Series to communicate with a
sequencer (PLC). By specifying the register numbers of D registers of the M Series
as parameters in the ladder program, you can read/write data from/into the registers
using BCD codes (0 to 9).

Ladder communication module

PLC

A maximum of 1200 m; up to 31 slave stations

Figure 4-1 Example of Connection for Ladder Communication

Connecting the M Series to a PLC of another company

When the M Series are connected to a PLC manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric (MELSEC-
A series), you can use the no-handshaking mode of the computer link unit.