Yaskawa MicroTrac Gateway to Allen-Bradley Data Highway Plus for use with Microtrac LAN User Manual

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Introduction

Drive Description

INTRODUCTION

I N T R O D U C T I O N

H A R D WA R E

The Allen-Bradley Data Highway Plus Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
Gateway allows any drive on the MicroTr a c

LAN to communicate with an

Allen-Bradley PLC. Only Numeric information can be transferred from the
DSD drives to the Allen-Bradley PLC.

The Allen-Bradley DHP PLC Gateway is a self-contained 4 slot PC back plane
enclosure consisting of 4 half-size XT style slots. The gateway contains the
power supplyand has a sheet metal cover. Installed in the gateway are three XT
style (8 bit) PC compatible cards. They are:

1. A MicroTrac interface card with an ARCNET high impedance (bus
configuration) BNC connector for coaxial cable. MagneTek part number
0 5 P 0 0 0 9 0 - 0 2 6 9 .

2. An 5136-SD Direct-Link interface card to connect to the Allen-
Bradley PLC Date Highway Plus network. MagneTek part number
0 5 P 0 0 0 9 0 - 0 3 3 6 .

3. An 80188 based CPU card with 64K RAM and 64K EPROM or
128K EPROM on board. MagneTek part number 46S03159-0010 .

Each of the three cards installed in the back plane has jumpers and switches
that must be set before insertion into the back plane. After insertion, certain
external cable connections must be made in order for the system to function
properly.

S e t u p

RD 906-20

94-04