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New product announcement – DVS (Unmanaged Ethernet Switches)

Delta put things in order, and give the total ethernet solution with new launch of Delta Industrial Unmanaged Ethernet switches.

With the rise of industrial automation technology, Ethernet has become the most popular and widely used communication protocol.
Based on Delta’s accumulated Ethernet communication experience and industrial know-how, the Delta Industrial Ethernet Solution helps customers build up an industrial Ethernet network that will satisfy their requirements in a wide range of applications.
All of Delta’s Ethernet products are certified to UL, CE and FCC standards.

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PC – PLC Communication (PLC control without SCADA)

Is not very common, but sometimes is needed to communicate our PLC´s directly to PC.
The typical applications use to be testing machines, who needs accurate response time, or complex machines who use the PLC to easy control over simple parts of the machine.
And some times (why not) because our PLC’s are cheaper than a digital/analog I/O PCI Cards!

Because of that we create some libraries and examples in the most updated PC programming software to help you on this.

On the following compilation, you will find Examples in Visual Basic, VBNet, and CSharp.
PC-PLC communication Library
Delta DLL library
Delta Comunication Protocol definition

Feel free to download and use them for your applications.

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IFD9506 (part 3 of 3)

We arrive to the end of the IFD9506 monographic with the definitive application (and some final desert).
In this case we use the IFD9506 to add any Delta product to a Ethernet network.
In fact with the new firmware V1.07 is possible to add until 100 devices below the Ethernet gateway!!

And as a final climax, one last example of how to use IFD9506 as a gateway between one Ethernet HMI and some RS485 Delta periphericals (EX2, SV and DTB).

Have fun!

How to use IFD9506
Technical Announcement_DCISoft_V1_07

And put ethernet in our life ;)

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IFD9506 (part 1 of 3)

Let’s play with Ethernet!

Industrial Ethernet has become the last 10 years as the replacement for the serial communication.  Not only because the speed, but for the simple compatibility with our main tools, the computers…

Each automation brand have their own protocol based on Ethernet (Profinet, Ethernet/IP, Ethernet Powerlink, etc…).
In Delta, we have been playing with Modbus from the beginning, so in the moment that we decide to enter to ethernet, the natural choice was Modbus TCP/IP.

But what happen with all the devices already in the factories working with Modbus RS232 or RS485 ?

To solve this need, we develop IFD9506.
This device is used to convert from Ethernet Modbus TCP/IP to serial communication Modbus.
And the following weeks we’ll share with you all several typical applications and functionalities of this device.

To start, we are going to use the simple communication HMI-PLC-DTB and we’re going to add two IFD9506 to achieve to communicate both three devices trough Ethernet as the picture shows.

To achieved, use the attached application tutorial.
HMI + IFD9506 + PLC.pdf
And take a look at the last page and our first approach to web server!

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