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■ Step 4: Setting the DeviceNet Master
1. Select and double-click the DeviceNet master.
2. Register the communication unit if it has not been previously registered as a
registered device.
3. Select the communication unit and click the [Advanced Settings] button.
4. Open the [Connection].
5. The following dialog box will be displayed. Select [User Setup] and set the
connection path.
■ Step 5: Setting the COS/Cyclic Heartbeat Timer
From the screen displayed in step 4, set the COS/Cyclic heartbeat timer.
1. For a Cyclic connection, data is periodically sent by the slave in a cycle determined
by this setting.
2. For a COS connection, data is periodically sent by the slave in a cycle determined by
this setting even if the data has not changed, and checks that a communications
error has not occurred.
The higher the value is, the lesser the load on the network is. However, the time
required to detect errors is longer with higher values.
DeviceNet Connection Settings
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