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I-87KX SERIES I/O EXPANSION UNIT User’s Manual Version 1.0 ICP DAS, Co., LTD www.icpdas.com 87K4/5/8/9 RS-485 I/O Expansion Unit ----- 1...
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87K4/87K5/87K8/87K9 Warranty All products manufactured by ICP DAS are under warranty regarding defective materials for a period of one year, starting from the date of delivery to the original purchaser. Warning ICP DAS assumes no liability for damages resulting from the use of this product. ICP DAS reserves the right to change this manual at any time without notice.
Chapter1. Introduction 1. The 87K4/5/8/9 I/O Expansion unit is a plastic housing unit that provides one set power unit (10 V ~ 30 V DC) and one RS-485 interface and can be shared by those 87K I/O modules which are inserted into this I/O Expansion unit. This character can save time on wiring for power and RS-485 interface between 87K I/O modules.
2.2 87K5, 87K9: JP1: INIT* of Slot4 87K5 87K5 DATA+ DATA- INIT* of Slot0 ~ Slot3 Init* Power Slot0 Slot3 Slot4 RS-485 JP1: INIT* of Slot8 87K9 87K9 DATA+ DATA- Init* Slot7 Power Slot0 Slot8 RS-485 INIT* of Slot0 ~ Slot7 87K4/5/8/9 RS-485 I/O Expansion Unit ----- 6...
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2.3 The INIT on the 87K4/5/8/9 I/O Expansion unit When we need to change communication parameters ( baudrate 、checksum and protocol etc ) on the module,INIT* pin need connects to GND on this module .The INIT* pins of Slot0 to Slot7 are located at the right edge of i-87K I/O Expansion. 2.3.1 The INIT at the backplane When power on i-87K I/O Expansion, only one INIT*-Switch can be set to ON Note 1:...
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The Slot location (index of Slot) is not related to the Net Address of I/O modules, it Note 3: only indicates the relative position of module on i-87K I/O Expansion unit. 2.3.2 The INIT* of i-87K High Profile I/O module between new and old backplane Some of the I-87K High Profile series I/O modules have INIT Jumper on module itself.
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And there are new i-87K I/O Expansion unit now. The only difference between new and old i-87K I/O Expansion unit is that It must put the INIT jumper at “INIT” position, if want to connect INIT* to GND, if i-87K high profile I/O with INIT Jumper plug in old i-87K I/O Expansion unit.
Chapter3. Setup the Expansion unit and I/O modules. The first thing is to make sure the I/O Expansion unit is correctly wired, the basic wiring includes power supplier and communicate interface. 3.1 Power Supplier: Please refer to: http://www.icpdas.com/products/Accessories/power_supply/power_list.htm 1. The power supply must be DC power between +10V to +30V. 2.
3.2 RS-485 Converter: 87K4/5/8/9 I/O Expansion unit supports only i-87K and M-87K I/O modules. It does not support i-8K series I/O module. The only communication interface of 87K4/5/8/9 I/O Expansion unit is its RS-485 port. So, it often needs a RS-232 to RS-485 converter such as 7520 to converter the RS-232 signal to RS-485.
3.4 I/O module installation: Step1: Read the document at the following location For I-87K series modules the files are located at: CD:\ Napdos\DCON\IO_Module\hw_dcon_on_8KUnit\87k ftp://ftp.icpdas.com/pub/cd/8000cd/napdos/dcon/io_module/hw_dcon_on_8kunit/87k/ These *.chm files include the I/O module specifications, pin assignments, wire connections. For example, the pin assignments and wire connections are as follows.
Chapter4. Configure the I/O modules with DCON Utility. 4.1 Search 87K I/O with DCON Utility: DCON Utility is a program based on Serial interface I/O, it can search DCON Protocol and Modbus RTU Protocol modules and support checksum disable and enable. 4.1.1 COM Port and Searching Conditions: Step 1: Choose the COM port and select the searching parameters.
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4.1.2 Searching Principles: one. If there are several I/O modules with unknown Search and configure the I/O one by Net Address, Baud rate, Checksum and Protocol, they have to be searched and configured one by one. If failed to find the I/O module, it is better to Power on the I/O module with INIT* pin connects to the GND to get the I/O module’s initial communication settings.
4.2 Search Result: When use DCON Utility to search 87K4/5/8/9 I/O Expansion unit and the 87K I/O modules, only 87K I/O modules can be found. 4.3 To Configure i-87K I/O modules: There are DCON Protocol and Modbus Protocol I/O module, for most general settings, they need to choose the wanted property and click setting to make it effect.
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There are some types of INIT* and they are at different position. i-87K4, i-87K8 I/O Expansion unit: The INIT* pins of Slot0 to Slot7 are located at the right edge of i-87K I/O Expansion. i-87K5, i-87K9 I/O Expansion unit: The INIT* pins of Slot0 to Slot7 are located at the right edge of i-87K I/O Expansion. But the INIT* pins of slot4 for 87K5 and slot8 for 87K9 are located at the first slot of Expansion unit.
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Appendix B: Frame Ground Electronic circuits are constantly vulnerable to Electro-Static Discharge (ESD), which become worse in a continental climate area. Some I-7000 ,M-7000 and I-8000 series modules feature a new design for the frame ground, which provides a path for bypassing ESD, allowing enhanced static protection (ESD) capability and ensures that the module is more reliable.