Branch Line And Multidrop Support For Cable Types And Baud Rates - Omron CJ Series Operation Manual

1 Introduction
1-2-2 Branch Line and Multidrop Support for Cable Types and Baud
Rates
Support for Branch Lines
Support for branch lines from the trunk line or sub-trunk lines and support for sub-branch lines from
branch lines is listed in the following tables.
• Baud Rate of 4 Mbps (No Branch Lines)
Round Cable I
Round Cable II, Flat Cable I, or Flat
Cable II
Note Branch lines are not supported for a baud rate of 4 Mbps and therefore Slave Units with Prewired Cables
cannot be used. The network must consist of Slave Units without Cables, and multidrop connections must be
used. (DCN4-MD4 Multidrop Connectors must be used for Flat Cable I.)
• Baud Rate of 3 Mbps
Round Cable I
Round Cable II, Flat Cable I, or Flat
Cable II
• Baud Rate of 1.5 Mbps
Round Cable I
Round Cable II, Flat Cable I, or Flat
Cable II
• Baud Rate of 93.75 kbps
Round Cable I
Round Cable II, Flat Cable I, or Flat
Cable II
Support for Multidrop Connections
• All Baud Rates
You cannot use multidrop connections if you use Flat Cable II because there are no Multidrop Con-
nectors for Flat Cable II.
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Cable
Not supported
Not supported
Cable
Supported
Supported
Cable
100 m max. Not supported
30 m max. Supported
Supported
Cable
Supported
Supported (no restrictions)
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Branch lines
Not supported
Not supported
Branch lines
Not supported
Not supported
Branch lines
Not supported
Supported
Branch lines
Not supported
Sub-branch lines
Sub-branch lines
Sub-branch lines
Sub-branch lines