Configuring Your Encoder/Counter Module. Allen-Bradley 1734 IJ, 1734 IK

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Configuring Your Encoder/Counter Module

This chapter describes how to configure your Encoder/Counter modules with RSNetworx.

For more information about:

Configuration Overview

Adding the Adapter to Your Network

Adding I/O Modules to Your Network

Setting the Counter’s Parameters

Checking I/O Status and Viewing/Editing the EDS File

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Configuration Overview

You must use the RSNetworx for DeviceNet software to configure your module. You can configure the module while it is:

• online

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• offline

This chapter shows configuration in the online mode. Configuration screens appear similar in both modes. The primary difference is that if you make changes offline, you must go online before the configuration changes take effect.

Adding the Adapter to Your Network

Follow these steps:

1. Start the RSNetworx for DeviceNet software.

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2. Add the communication device as shown below. (In this case, the chosen device was a 1734-ADN DeviceNet Scanner.)

1. Click here to expand the list of communication adapters.

2. Double-click here to choose the scanner. You can also click and drag the scanner name onto the network.

Make sure you choose the

1734-ADN Point I/O Scanner.

The scanner appears on the network.

IMPORTANT

The scanner must always exist on the DeviceNet network at Node 00.

Adding I/O Modules to Your Network

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After you add the communication device, you must add the POINT I/

O modules connected to the scanner on the PointBus.

1. Add modules as shown below. (In this case, the communication device shown is a 1770-KFD.)

1. Click here to expand the list of Specialty modules.

2. Double-click on the catalog number to choose the module. You can also click and drag the module name onto the network.

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The out-of-the-box node setting for 1734 modules is 63. You can change the setting by using the node commissioning tool. The node commissioning tool is available either online or offline.

IMPORTANT

If you commission a node online, you must power down your system before the change takes place.

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1. Go to the pulldown Tools.

Select Node Commissioning.

2. Click on Browse.

3. Select the module to change.

4. The node commissioning screen returns. It displays the node number and data rate.

5. Change the node number and

Apply. The screen will then identify the new setting.

6. Click on Close to continue.

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