Checking your hardware installation, Checking your hardware installation -2 – Rockwell Automation 9303 DRIVE TOOLS32 GETTING STARTED User Manual
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Setting Up an Allen-Bradley Ethernet to RIO Block Transfer Pass Thru Communications System
Publication 9303-5.13 – March 1998
Figure 7.1
Allen-Bradley Ethernet Communications System
Important: RIO Block Transfer Pass Thru communications to drives take
approximately 2 seconds per point, and the PLC acting as the gateway must not
use any Block Transfer instructions addressed to the drive in its ladder logic
program.
Important: DriveMonitor32 and DriveBlockEditor32 cannot be used with RIO
Block Transfer Pass Thru communications systems.
Important: For RIO Block Transfer Pass Thru communications to work, the
PLC to which the drive is connected must be in RUN mode. If the PLC is not in
RUN mode, pass thru messages cannot be delivered to the connected drive
product.
Checking Your
Hardware
Installation
Before setting up RSLinx and running DriveTools32, you should check your
hardware installation. You should:
•
Have an Ethernet card running TCP/IP correctly installed.
•
Check that all cable connections between the computer and drive are secure.
GD1
Ethernet Connection
ENet RIO BT
Pass Thru
GM1
GK1
1395
SCANport
SCANport
Product
RIO
DH+
Multi-Comm
Adapter
Ethernet
RIO
SCANport
Ethernet
Ethernet
TCP/IP
RIO
SCANport
1336T
(FORCE)
RIO
DH+
PLC Comm
Adapter
Or
Or
Important: For a list of SCANport products,
refer to Appendix A.
PLC-5 (E)