Positioning Of Passive Terminals; Fig. 27 Correct Positioning; Fig. 28 Incorrect Positioning - Beckhoff EL72 1 Series Documentation

Installation
5.4

Positioning of passive Terminals

Hint for positioning of passive terminals in the bus terminal block
EtherCAT Terminals (ELxxxx / ESxxxx), which do not take an active part in data transfer
within the bus terminal block are so called passive terminals. The passive terminals have
Note
no current consumption out of the E-Bus.
To ensure an optimal data transfer, you must not directly string together more than 2 pas-
sive terminals!
Examples for positioning of passive terminals (highlighted)
Fig. 27: Correct positioning
Fig. 28: Incorrect positioning
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