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Manual Version V1.1 Archived Date 2023-03-07 Veichi Electric Co., Ltd. provides customers with a full range of technical support, so users can reach the nearest Veichi Electric Co., Ltd. office or customer service center, or the company headquarters directly. Veichi Electric Co.
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➢ Design external protection circuits and safety mechanisms for output signals related to major accidents for safe operation of the equipment; ➢ The programmable controller CPU may stop all output when it detects an abnormality in its own system; when some of the controller's circuits fail, output may turn uncontrolled. Please design suitable external control circuits in order to ensure normal operation;...
electrical knowledge and training related to electrical equipment; ➢ During wiring, the external supply power to the system must be fully disconnected in advance. Failure to do so may result in electric shock or equipment failure or malfunction; ➢ The terminal cover supplied with the product must be installed before power-up and operation. Failure to install the terminal cover may result in electric shock;...
1 Product Information 1.1 Naming Rules and Nameplate Description VM – RTU – PN Product information VM: Veichi Flexible Series IO Module Module type RTU: Remote terminal unit Protocol type PN: PROFINET VM-RTU-PN Manual...
1.2 Component Description ① ② ③IN ③OUT ④ Interface Function definition Signal Power indicator Green On when the power is turned on ① indicator Run indicator PN module is initializing Flashing module parameter (green) configuration or waiting for master connection. On (green) PN module communication is normal Communication...
interface OUT: PROFINET output port for connecting a next PROFINET slave. ③ power Module power input terminal ④ supply 1.3 Specification 1.3.1 Power Specification Item Specification Rated voltage of terminal input voltage 24V DC (20.4V DC~ 28.8V DC) Rated current of terminal input power supply 0.6A (typical at 24V) Rated voltage of bus output power supply 5V DC (4.75V DC~5.25V DC)
refreshing Firmware upgrade USB firmware upgrade 1.3.3 Environmental Specification Item Specification Environmental working temperature –20° C~55° C Environment working humidity Relative humidity < 95% RH (no condensation) No corrosive gas Environment storage temperature –20° C~60° C, relative humidity < 95% RH (no condensation) Power output derating 85% derating at 55°...
Mechanical Installation Mounting Dimensions 2.1.1 Module Mounting dimension information is shown below in (mm). 2.1.2 Connection Cables VM-RTU-PN Manual...
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2.1.3 Rear Cover 2.2 Installation 2.2.1 Inter-module Installation Before installing the module, remove the rear cover in the direction indicated before proceeding to the next step as shown in the figure below. VM-RTU-PN Manual...
Inter-module assemblies are slide-mounted via the top and bottom rails. 2.2.2 Rail Installation DIN rail mounting is adopted here. When installing, align the module with the DIN rail and press the snap until there is a clear click sound. As shown in the figure below. Note: After the module installation is completed, the snap will automatically rebound to lock the DIN rail, if the snap does not rebound, please press it down on the top of the snap by hand to ensure that the installation is in place.
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2.2.3 Rail Disassembly Push the rail snap with your finger and pull the module out in the direction away from the DIN rail. Push upwards 往上拨 DIN导轨锁扣 DIN rail lock VM-RTU-PN Manual...
Electrical Installation 3.1 Cable Selection 3.1.1 Communication Cables Use shielded layer network cables for network data transmission among PROFINET bus communication without short circuit, misalignment and poor contact; the length of the cables between the devices should not exceed 100m, longer cables may cause signal attenuation so to reduce the normal communication.
Troubleshooting 4.1 Indicator Diagnosis LED indicator Description Cause Solution No modules scanned 1. Expansion module 1. Check whether the expansion for this protocol does not exist module is normally installed and powered up 2. Local bus communication is 2. Check the communication not scanned to the interface contact of the expansion expansion module...
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expansion module down or unplugged. 2. lO module power- 3. Check the contact condition of down or unplugged the communication interface of local bus the expansion module or restart communication loss the whole system. of frame rate is too high, report the fault 4.2 Share_in and Share_out Instruction Share_in 4.2.1...
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Use S7-1500 with VM-RTU-PN Use S7-1500 and Veichi PN coupler distributed IO device to create the project. The case is illustrated using the PN communication between S7-1500 CPU and VM-RTU-PN as an example. (The same as S7-1200 CPU) Hardware: 1. S7-1500 -CPU 1511-1PN;...
1. After finishing the above steps, install the GSD device description file. In the menu bar, select "Options" - "Manage general station description files (GSD)", select the GSD path in the pop-up window, check the installation. As shown in Figure 3 (GSD file can be downloaded from the Veichi official website) Figure 3 GSD file installation 5.3 Device Configuration...
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Figure 5 Module configuration Note: As can be seen from the figure, the input address A1-A8 of VM-0808ETN is mapped to IB0 (I0.0-I0.7); the output address B1-B8 is mapped to QB0 (Q0.0-Q0.7); the Share_in monitoring information is assigned to IB1~IB32, and the Share_out monitoring information is assigned to QB1~QB32. 5.4 IP Address and Device Name Assignment 1.
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Figure 7 Slave IP address setting 2. Right-click coupler and select "Assign PROFINET device name" and "Update List", when it is used for the first time, the IP address and device name of coupler are blank, select the device that needs to be assigned a name and click "Assign name".
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Figure 9 Assign names 5.5 Hardware Configuration Download 1. Click on " Compile" - "Hardware Complete Rebuild", and then "Hardware configuration download", and the hardware configuration download is complete. Click "Compile" - "Software rebuild", download the software (all download), click "Go online" communication will show a successful check as shown in Figure 10 Figure 10 Device configuration completed VM-RTU-PN Manual...
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5.6 Programming-Downloading-Online Monitoring 1. Add %M0.0 and control output %Q0.0 in Main[OB1] program, and then "Compile" - "Download" - "Go Online" - "Monitor", right-click to change the monitor value to 1, as shown in Figure 11 below. Figure 11 Online monitoring and commissioning VM-RTU-PN Manual...
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