VPGate PROFINET to serial user manual | June 2017 | ©PROCENTEC 2/104
Content
1. PROPERTIES................................................................................................ 5
1.1 General properties.............................................................................................................................5
1.2 Electrical properties...........................................................................................................................7
1.3 Mechanical properties.......................................................................................................................8
2. Hardware installation................................................................................. 9
2.1 Connector technology .......................................................................................................................9
2.1.1 Power connector ...............................................................................................................................9
2.1.2 SERIAL connector...............................................................................................................................9
2.1.3 2 ETHERNET ports, 10/100 Mbps ....................................................................................................10
2.1.4 Digital Input .....................................................................................................................................10
2.1.5 Digital output...................................................................................................................................10
2.2 Front panel indicators......................................................................................................................11
2.3 DIP switches.....................................................................................................................................11
2.3.1 Default configuration.......................................................................................................................11
2.3.2 Selecting the RS-232/RS-485 modes ...............................................................................................12
2.3.3 Termination resistance....................................................................................................................13
3. SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION ................................................................... 14
3.1 Configuration tools of the PROFINET IO controller .........................................................................14
3.2 Integrating VPGate into a project....................................................................................................14
3.2.1 Importing a GSDML file into the engineering tool...........................................................................14
3.2.2 Integrating VPGate ..........................................................................................................................14
3.3 General configuration of VPGate.....................................................................................................16
3.3.1 General parameters.........................................................................................................................16
3.4 Configuration in TRANSPARENT mode ............................................................................................18
3.4.1 Inserting and configuring modules in the TRANSPARENT mode.....................................................21
3.5 Configuration in MODBUS Master mode ........................................................................................24
3.5.1 Inserting and configuring modules in the MODBUS Master mode .................................................25
3.5.2 Behaviour of the MODBUS Master according to PROFINET status .................................................29
3.6 Configuration in the MODBUS Slave mode .....................................................................................30
3.6.1 Inserting and configuring modules in the MODBUS Slave mode ....................................................32
4. Diagnostic................................................................................................. 34
4.1 Diagnostic on the UDP 5628810 port ...............................................................................................34
4.2 PROFINET diagnostic........................................................................................................................35
4.3 Diagnostic Digital output .................................................................................................................36
5. Digital inputs/outputs .............................................................................. 38
5.1Digital output...................................................................................................................................38
5.2 Digital input .....................................................................................................................................38
6. IP address configuration........................................................................... 40
6.1 Configuration via the DCP protocol .................................................................................................40
6.2 Default configuration.......................................................................................................................41
7. MRP redundancy...................................................................................... 43
7.1 Functioning in the MRP Client .........................................................................................................43
