Mounting And Wiring; Instructions For Esd Protection; M8 Connector Cabling; Fig. 34 Spring Contacts Of The Beckhoff I/O Components - Beckhoff EK15 Series Documentation

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Mounting and wiring

5.1

Instructions for ESD protection

Destruction of the devices by electrostatic discharge possible!
The devices contain components at risk from electrostatic discharge caused by improper handling.
• Please ensure you are electrostatically discharged and avoid touching the contacts of the device directly.
• Avoid contact with highly insulating materials (synthetic fibers, plastic film etc.).
• Surroundings (working place, packaging and personnel) should by grounded probably, when handling
with the devices.
• Each assembly must be terminated at the right hand end with an EL9011 or EL9012 bus end cap, to en-
sure the protection class and ESD protection.
Fig. 34: Spring contacts of the Beckhoff I/O components
5.2

M8 Connector Cabling

A list of the EtherCAT cable, power cable, sensor cable, Ethernet-/EtherCAT connectors and the field
assembled connectors can be found at the following link: http://download.beckhoff.com/download/
document/catalog/main_catalog/english/Beckhoff_EtherCAT-Box-Accessories.pdf
You can find the corresponding data sheets at the following link: http://beckhoff.de/english/fieldbus_box/
data_sheets.htm?id=69033899254355
EK1122, EK15xx
NOTE
Version: 3.4
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