Supplementary Conditions; Several Operator Panels And Ncus With Control Unit Management Option; Several Operator Panel Fronts And Ncus, Standard Functionality - Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Function Manual

B3: Several operator panels connected to several NCUs, distributed systems - only 840D sl
2.14

Supplementary conditions

2.14
2.14.1

Several operator panels and NCUs with control unit management option

Configuration
The number of configurable control units/NCUs is only limited by the availability of bus
addresses on the individual bus segments of the different bus types.
The control unit management option permits linking of up to 9 control units on up to 9 NCUs.
2.14.2

Several operator panel fronts and NCUs, standard functionality

Possible configurations
● Configuration "2 operator panels and 1 NCU"
● Configuration "1 operator panel and up to 4 NCUs"
Operation of the M:N link
via the channel menu (see Section "Operator interface") selected via the "Channel
switchover" key.
The precondition for the channel menu is configuration via the NETNAMES.INI file (see
/IAD/, Commissioning Manual 840D).
The channel menu function is an option.
Bus connection
Address space: 0, ..., 31
Note
If an address > 15 is used, all components connected to the bus must be capable of
processing addresses between 0 and 31.
Extended Functions
Function Manual, 09/2009, 6FC5397-1BP20-0BA0
One of the operator panels must be an OP030.
1 additional operator panel per NCU can be operated locally. If the link is set up via MPI,
only NCUs whose NC address can be specified can be used.
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