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Connecting Online to the Relay PLC
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Procedures
When Serial Connection Is Selected
1. Detection of the serial connection method will start and the Auto-Connecting Dialog
2. If automatic connection with the PLC is successful, the online status and information
Online Connection
Information
Window
When USB Connection Is Selected
(USB connection can be selected when connecting to a CJ2 CPU Unit, NSJ-series or
CP-series PLC.)
1. Detection of the selected connection method will start and the Auto-Connecting
2. If automatic connection with the Controller is successful, just as with serial
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Box will be displayed.
on the target PLC will be displayed in the Online Connection Information Window.
Online displayed.
Note 1: The device type information that was uploaded can be checked offline by clicking
the
icon or selecting Network - Communications Settings from the menu bar.
Note 2: Once an automatic connection has been made, switching between offline and online
is possible by clicking the
menu bar. If the network and node address settings for the relay PLC and the target
PLC are the same, the Unit that was connected immediately before will be auto-
matically connected again the next time online.
Note 3: When connecting online for the first time after opening a project, the target Unit will
be determined in the following order.
1. The Unit with the same network and node addresses.
2. When a routing table is set for the target PLC, the communicating Unit or port
with the lowest network address in the target networks.
Dialog Box will be displayed.
connection, the online status and information on the target Controller will be
displayed in the Online Connection Information Window.
Relay PLC's model settings
in the computer
Target PLC information
Information on accessible
Communications Units and ports
in the target PLC
icon or selecting Network
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