Selecting Your Hardware Components - Allen-Bradley SLC 500 User Manual

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Selecting Your Hardware Components

This chapter provides general information on what your SLC 500
controller can do, an overview of the modular control system, and
special considerations for controller installations. It also explains how
to select:
• chassis
• modular processors
• discrete I/O modules
• specialty I/O modules
• power supplies
• enclosures
• operator interfaces
• memory modules
• isolation transformers
This chapter does not provide you with all the information that you
need to select a complete SLC 500 control system. To do this, we
recommend that you use the latest version of the system overview,
SLC 500 Programmable Controllers and I/O Modules, Publication
Number 1747-SO001B-US-P.
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Publication 1747-UM011C-EN-P - December 2001
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