• Applications in which plant operation must be maintained as long as possible, for
example, when a service technician is not immediately available.
– Offshore installations (oil platforms)
– Compressors along gas pipelines that maintain the working pressure
• Other applications
– Signal boxes in railway engineering
– Shipbuilding
2.2
Properties
Article numbers
• 6ES7590-0BL00-0AA0 (Active backplane bus ST 1+12)
• 6ES7590-0BH00-0AA0 (Active backplane bus ST 1+8)
• 6ES7590-0BD00-0AA0 (Active backplane bus ST 1+4)
View of the active backplane bus
Figure 2-1
The active backplane bus is placed in an S7-1500 mounting rail. The mounting rail must be
longer than the active backplane bus. There must be enough space for the fixing screws of
the mounting rail. Information on the length of the active backplane bus can be found in the
section "Mounting (Page 11)".
Active backplane bus ST 1+12 slot, active backplane bus ST 1+8 slot, active backplane bus ST 1+4 slot
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Active backplane bus ST 1+12
Description
2.2 Properties
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