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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 1 4/08 Configuring the RUI/Gateway on DeviceNet TM Using RSNetWorx 1. Prior to making the physical connections on the network setup the gatewa[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 2 4/08 display as shown below. In this particu lar case, node 7 (RUI/Gateway) appears with a question mark because it has not yet been registe[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 3 4/08 6. Select Register an EDS file. 7. Register a single file and then click browse to locate its location.[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 4 4/08 8. When found notice that if there is an icon with the same name the software will register it along with the EDS file. Click next to p[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 5 4/08 10. After clicking next above, the software will associ ate an icon to this device, if there was none found in the previous step it wil[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 6 4/08 12. The next series of steps involves mappi ng the available RUI/Gatewa y input (84) and output (80) bytes via the scanner into the PLC[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 7 4/08 14. After the scanner recognizes the RUI/Gate way on the network it will then appear as an Available Device as shown below. Before clic[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 8 4/08 15. Once the available device (RUI/Gateway in th is case) is moved over to the Scanlist the next step will be to map the RUI/Gate way i[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 9 4/08 The PLC will need to be in the program or remote program m ode for this to occur. When written this completes the configuration of the [...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 10 4/08 18. The table below does not r epresent all of the RUI/Gateway prompts that need configuration but they do represent those that are pe[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 11 4/08 19. The gateway instance represents the EZ-ZONE ® control, in this case, PM 1-4. The enable gateway instance simply turns on that par[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 12 4/08 22. Notice too, the slot number, in this case “1 ”. This is the physical slot in which the scanner resides. After the scanner is c[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 13 4/08 Reading and Writing to/from RUI/Gateway Using RSLogix 5000 24. The rung of logic below when enabled, will execute an explicit message [...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 14 4/08 25. Notice above that there are screen shots for the confi guration and communication tabs. Within the configuration, the programmer w[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 15 4/08 Default Target to Originator (T to O) Assembly Default Originator to Target (O to T) Assembly[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 16 4/08 29. Each of the members shown abo ve are passed implic itly to and from the gateway to the PLC with little to no programming. Note: If[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 17 4/08 31. Once the user defined dat a types have been created for the T to O and O to T assemblies right click on the controller tags folder[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 18 4/08 transfer of data to and from the PLC and EZ-ZONE ® controllers via simple copy instructions in the PLC. The copy instruction also wor[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 19 4/08 Device Physical Address Logical Address (Set by User) Personal Computers 0-3 1-4 RUI 4-11 1-8 Communication Cards 12-15 1-4 ( indirect[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 20 4/08 37. In step 30 it was suggested that the user may want to create user defined data types. Likewise, in step 31 it was also suggested t[...]

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    RUI/Gateway & DeviceNet TM Configuration & Ladder Logic Example Using an Allen-Brad ley CompactLogix PLC Watlow 1241 Bundy Blvd Winona, MN 55987 Telephone: 507-494-5656 © 2007 Watlow Electric Mfg Co 21 4/08 Custom T to O Assembly Custom O to T Assembly[...]