GE IC697MDL640 125 VDC Input (16 Points)
1. Select the rack and slot location for the
Bus Controller.
2. Press F2 (genius).
3. From the Catalog # screen, press F1
(gbc).
4. From the Description screen, press Enter.
5. Complete the entries on the left side
of the screen. The Bus Address of the
Bus Controller must be either 31 (as
shown here) or 30.
6. On the right side of the screen,
change Redund mode set to RED
CTRL (redundant controllers).
7. Set Paired GBC to INTERNAL.
8. For Dual GBC Addr, enter the rack
and slot number of the other Bus Controller of the pair.
9. When you are finished with the entries on this screen, press the ESC key
to return to the rack configuration
screen.
10. Both of the Bus Controllers now appear
on the rack configuration screen. In
this example, they are in the same
rack, as shown as right, but that is not
necessary. Each now appears as a configured device on the bus of the other
(BUS1 : 1).
11. Zoom into the bus configuration
screen for the first Bus Controller.

12. The bus configuration screen also in cludes both of the Bus Controllers, as
shown as right. From this screen, you
can configure the devices on the bus
for the Bus Controller located in rack
0, slot 2, which is at Bus Address 31.
13. If the two Bus Controllers will ex change Global Data, select the other
Bus Controller and press F10 (zoom)
A configuration screen appears. En ter the Global Data parameters on
the configuration screen. Press ESC
to return to this bus configuration
screen.
14. Configure the rest of the bus. In this
example, discrete blocks are placed
at Bus Addresses 29 and 28. They are
configured for redundancy YES.
15. Press ESC to return to the rack dis play. Notice that each device config ured for the first Bus Controller was
copied to the bus of the second
(BUS1: 3).
1. Select the rack and slot location for the
Bus Controller.
2. Press F2 (genius).
3. From the Catalog # screen, press F1
(gbc).
4. From the Description screen, press Enter.
5. Complete the entries on the left side of
the screen. The Device Number (Bus
#1 Addr) of the Bus Controller must
be either 31 (as shown here) or 30.
6. On the right side of the screen, change
Redund Mode to DB/RC (dual bus, redundant controllers).
7. Set Paired GBC to INT/EXT (internal/
external).
8. If the bus scan time will exceed 100mS,
set Switch Time to 10S.
9. For Dual GBC Addr, enter the rack
and slot number of the other Bus Controller of the internal pair.
10. When you are finished with the entries
on the Bus Controller configuration
screen, press the ESC key to return to
the rack configuration screen, which
now includes both internal Bus Controllers. The two external Bus Controllers
are part of the second PLC’s configuration.
11. Zoom into the bus configuration
screen for the first Bus Controller