Siemens
Building Technologies
Contents
1
KNX and Synco .................................................................................... 5
1.1
General overview ................................................................................... 5
1.1.1
Definition of terms .................................................................................. 6
1.2
Device range ......................................................................................... 8
1.2.1
1.2.2
1.3
The KNX network ................................................................................. 11
1.3.1
1.3.2
Network address .................................................................................. 12
1.3.3
Device address .................................................................................... 13
1.4
2
Engineering notes.............................................................................. 15
2.1
Network design .................................................................................... 15
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
Bus load number E .............................................................................. 17
2.2
Bus power supply ................................................................................ 17
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.3
Bus topologies ..................................................................................... 21
2.3.1
3
3.1
3.2
3.2.1
3.2.2
4
4.1
RM... controllers .................................................................................. 29
4.1.1
4.1.2
Assign device names ........................................................................... 30
4.2
5
5.1
5.1.1
Overview ............................................................................................. 33
6
6.1
RM... controllers .................................................................................. 35
6.1.1
6.1.2
Clock time operation ............................................................................ 35
6.1.3
6.1.4
7
7.1
7.1.1
Synco zoning ....................................................................................... 39
7.1.2
KNX bus communications
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