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User Guide eWON500™ ver 1.0 The Transparent Gateway 9/11/05 eWON500™ is a Multiprotocol Transparent Gateway! MODBUS TCP MODBUS RTU EtherNet/IP FINS TCP FINS Hostlink UNITELWAY ISO TCP PPI/MPI VCOM Proprietary Page 1...
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User Name/Password. • Enter http://10.0.0.53 in the address bar from your Internet Explorer (refer to the eBuddy User Guide if you need to change the eWON™ IP address and subnet mask) • Enter adm (User Name)/adm (Password) then Enter You are now navigating on your eWON500™!
Support/Documentation/User guides). The eWON500™ IO servers The eWON500™ requires a kind of driver to be able to “speak” the protocol from the PLC. At this time, the eWON500™ embeds several drivers (called IO servers), each of them can be configured from a distinct configuration web page from the eWON500™...
• From your PLC management software (typically PL7Pro), configure the XIP driver with the eWON IP address as destination node and with the UnitId of the targeted device (different than the Modbus TCP Unit Address from the eWON) • Make an ICMP ping and test the XWAY driver, then Connect to the PLC You are now connected to your PLC through your eWON500™...
(default value applied) PLC software configuration • From your PLC management software, configure the software with the eWON IP address as destination node You are now connected to your PLC through your eWON500™ • Please refer to the Troubleshooting section from this document in case of an issue...
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RSLogix 500 PLC software configuration • Configure the RSLinx Ethernet Driver with the IP address from the eWON, then select the same Ethernet driver in the RSLogix Comms and GoOnline You are now connected to your PLC through your eWON500™...
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• Check that the entered data match the one entered in the network configuration from CX-Programmer then GoOnline You are now connected to your PLC through your eWON500™ • Please refer to the Troubleshooting section from this document in case of an issue...
Creating a Tag in the eWON500™ to check the serial connection to the PLC Principles The first action to take in that case is to validate the connection between the eWON500™ and the PLC by means of an eWON variable called a Tag.
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Reading the on the PLC Principles The eWON500™embeds a page from which you can directly check the value from the Tags which match an existing word on a device from the serial bus Reading a Tag value in the eWON The Tag’s monitoring page displays as soon as you click on the Add/Update Only button from the...
¤ Depending on the PLC type, a led could light on when the serial communication is enabled between the PLC and the eWON500™. If not the case, please check that the configurable eWON500™ serial port is set up with the correct value depending on the type of protocol used (RS232 or RS485) and the type of your network (polarization is required or not).
From the Main Menu eWON™ toolbar, click on Diagnostic, then on Status, and click on the I/O server counter you want to read the diagnostics of. There will be a ? icon in the ? column that matches the component or error type.
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IO server or port which uses your required resources). Clicking on the Event Log link will display the latest events that have just occurred on your eWON500™. It can bring you interesting information such as the frequency to which your problem occurred. Your eWON500™...
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TSX CX 100 Schneider cable (between eWON and the PLC) - Pinout This 2m cable can be delivered as accessory to connect Shneider PLCs; it has a SUBD9 connector at the eWON side and a MiniDIN connector at the PLC side.
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User Guide eWON500™ ver 1.0 The Transparent Gateway 9/11/05 1747-CP3 cable between eWON and SLC-500 - pinout 9-pin eWON Table 2: 1747-CP3 cable pinout The connectors are SUBD9 female at both sides. Page 14...
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