
MCD 3000 – PROFIBUS GATEWAY
MCD 3000 SERIES 4 USER MANUAL
CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 6
1.1 IMPORTANT USER INFORMATION............................................................................................................... 6
1.2 GENERAL.................................................................................................................................................. 6
2 INSTALING THE GATEWAY ..........................................................................................................8
2.1 GATEWAY CONNECTION DIAGRAM............................................................................................................ 8
2.2 FRONT PANEL ........................................................................................................................................... 9
2.3 INSTALLATION SEQUENCE....................................................................................................................... 11
2.4 POWER CONNECTION .............................................................................................................................. 11
2.5 PROFIBUS CONNECTION....................................................................................................................... 12
2.5.1 Cabling..........................................................................................................................................12
2.5.2 GATEWAY CONFIGURATION ................................................................................................................... 13
2.6 MCD3000 CONNECTION......................................................................................................................... 14
2.6.1 Cabling..........................................................................................................................................14
2.6.2 MCD3000 configuration .............................................................................................................16
3 PROGRAMMING THE MASTER CONTROLLER ........................................................................ 18
3.1 GSD FILE................................................................................................................................................ 18
3.2 DECLARING MODULES ............................................................................................................................ 18
3.3 SETTING PROFIBUS PARAMETERS........................................................................................................ 19
3.4 MASTER-SLAVE DATA EXCHANGE .......................................................................................................... 21
3.5 DATA WRITE AREA.................................................................................................................................. 21
3.6 DATA READ AREA................................................................................................................................... 22
3.7 ISSUING COMMANDS .............................................................................................................................. 24
4 OPERATION OF THE GATEWAY ................................................................................................ 29
4.1 SCANNING SLAVES.................................................................................................................................. 29
4.2 SCANNING TIMES .................................................................................................................................... 29
4.3 OFFLINE SLAVES..................................................................................................................................... 31
5 SPECIFICATIONS......................................................................................................................... 32
6 TROUBLESHOOTING .................................................................................................................. 33