Rockwell Automation T3831 ICS Regent Communications Package for Winterpret - Manual (Page 12)

Communications Package for W INTERPRET (T3831)
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Industrial Control Services
Configuring the Regent Serial Ports for GPL
Communications
In each Regent project, use the Serial Ports command from
the Project Editor’s Definitions Menu to define the serial ports
used for GPL communications. An example of the Serial Ports
dialog is shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7. Defining GPL Ports in the Serial Ports Dialog.
In this example, two ports are configured for GPL
communications indicating that the GPL network uses two
legs for redundancy. Port 2 is configured as a Net Master for
one leg — all other Regents connected to this leg should be
configured as Net Slaves. Port 4 is configured as a Net Slave
— one of the other Regents must be configured as the Net
Master for this leg of the GPL Network.
Each GPL port for this Regent is configured as node number
1, and the baud rate is set for 19,200 baud. Data format for
GPL ports must be set for 8 data bits, 1 stop bit and odd
parity.
An example of the serial port settings for four Regents
connected by two legs of a GPL network is shown in Table 3.