GE AF-650 GP Design Manual page 183

10.1.3 RS 485 Bus Termination
Use the terminator dip switch on the main control board of the frequency
converter to terminate the RS-485 bus.
NB!
The factory setting for the dip switch is OFF.
10.1.4 EMC Precautions
The following EMC precautions are recommended in order to achieve interference-free operation of the RS-485 network.
NB!
Relevant national and local regulations, for example regarding protective earth connection, must be observed. The RS-485 communication cable must be kept
away from motor and brake resistor cables to avoid coupling of high frequency noise from one cable to another. Normally a distance of 200 mm (8 inches) is
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sufficient, but keeping the greatest possible distance between the cables is generally recommended, especially where cables run in parallel over long distances.
When crossing is unavoidable, the RS-485 cable must cross motor and brake resistor cables at an angle of 90 degrees.
The Drive protocol, also referred to as Drive bus or Standard bus, is the GE standard network. It defines an access technique according to the master-slave principle
for communications via a serial bus.
One master and a maximum of 126 slaves can be connected to the bus. The individual slaves are selected by the master via an address character in the telegram.
A slave itself can never transmit without first being requested to do so, and direct message transfer between the individual slaves is not possible. Communications
occur in the half-duplex mode.
The master function cannot be transferred to another node (single-master system).
The physical layer is RS-485, thus utilizing the RS-485 port built into the frequency converter. The Drive protocol supports different telegram formats; a short format
of 8 bytes for process data, and a long format of 16 bytes that also includes a parameter channel. A third telegram format is used for texts.
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Terminator Switch Factory Setting
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