Siemens SINAMICS G120C Operating Instructions Manual page 89

Configuring communication to the control
Configuring the communication using SIMATIC S7 control
You have the following options, if the inverter is not included in the hardware library:
● Install the most up to date STARTER version
● Install the GSDML of the inverter using "Tools/Install GSDML file" in HW Config.
Additional information on this topic is provided in the "Fieldbuses" Function Manual, also see
Manuals for your inverter (Page 409).
Configuring the communication using a non-Siemens control
1. Import the device file (GSDML) of the inverter into the engineering tool for your control
system.
2. Configure the communication.
Installing GSDML
Procedure
To install the GSDML of the inverter into the configuring tool of your control system, proceed
as follows:
1. Save the GSDML to your PC .
– From the Internet: GSDML
– From your inverter:
2. Unzip the GSDML file to a folder on your computer.
3. Import the GSDML into the configuring tool of your control system.
You have now installed the GSDML.
Activating diagnostics via the control
The converter provides the functionality to transmit fault and alarm messages (diagnostic
messages) to the higher-level control according to the PROFIdrive error classes.
You must select the functionality in the higher-level control (see Manuals for your inverter
(Page 409)) and activate it by booting up.
SINAMICS G120C converter
Operating Instructions, 07/2015, FW V4.7 SP3, A5E34263257B AC
(http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/en/22339653/133100).
Insert a memory card into the inverter.
Set p0804 = 12.
The inverter writes the GSDML as zipped file (*.zip) into directory
/SIEMENS/SINAMICS/DATA/CFG on the memory card.
Installing
4.8 Connecting the inverter
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