GE IC698CPE010 RX7i VME 300Mhz CPU with Embedded 10/100 Ethernet
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Chapter 1 describes the Series 90–70 Bus Controller and explains how it operates.
Chapter 2. Installation: Chapter 2 explains how to install or remove a Bus Controller,
and how to connect it to a Genius serial bus.
Chapter 3. Bus Controller Configuration: Chapter 3 explains how to complete the Logicmaster configuration steps for a Bus Controller and its bus.
Chapter 4. Diagnostics: Chapter 4 describes diagnostics capabilities of interest in Series
90–70 PLC systems that use Genius I/O and communications.
Chapter 5. Communication Request: Chapter 5 describes the use of the COMREQ program instruction with a Bus Controller.
Chapter 6. Data Monitoring, Distributed Control, and Redundancy: Chapter 6 describes some advanced systems supported by the Series 90–70 Bus Controller.
Appendix A. ASCII Code List: Lists ASCII characters and their decimal and hexadecimal
equivalents.
Changes for this Revision of the Manual
This manual describes the new features available with release 4.0 of the Bus Controller,
including greater support for redundancy and reference address checking. New and
revised information in this manual includes:
Revised information on page 13 about completing Shield In and Shield Out connections to a Bus Controller.
Instructions for configuring reference address checking, bus redundancy and Bus
Controller redundancy, in chapter 3.
Some new and revised diagnostics messages in chapter 4.
Information about using passwords with COMREQs in chapter 5.
An expanded description of redundancy features in chapter 6.
Instructions for determining how many Bus Controllers can be used in a system that
includes the use of dual (redundant) busses.