EPPxxxx | Industrial housing

EtherCAT P combines communication and power in a 4-core standard Ethernet cable. The 24 V DC supply of the EtherCAT P slaves and the connected sensors and actuators is integrated: U_S (system and sensor supply) and U_P (peripheral voltage for actuators) are electrically isolated from one another with a current of up to 3 A each for the connected components. All the benefits of EtherCAT are retained, such as the free topology, high speed, optimum bandwidth utilization, the processing of telegrams in passing, highly precise synchronization, extensive diagnostics, etc. The currents of U_S and U_P are directly coupled to the cores of the 100 Mbit/s line, resulting in a very cost-effective and compact connection. EtherCAT P offers benefits both for connection of remote, smaller I/O stations in the terminal box and for decentralized I/O components locally in the process. A dedicated plug family was specially developed for EtherCAT P, in order to prevent potential damage caused by incorrect connection with standard EtherCAT slaves. It covers all applications from the 24 V I/O level through to drives with 630 V AC or 850 V DC and a current of up to 72 A.

The EPPxxxx EtherCAT P modules in IP67 protection cover the typical requirements spectrum for I/O signals: digital inputs (3.0 ms or 10 μs filter), digital outputs with 0.5 A output current, combination modules with digital inputs and outputs, analog inputs and outputs with 16-bit resolution, and thermocouple and RTD inputs. The EPP13xx EtherCAT P junctions are available for flexible topology configuration. The current carrying capacity of 3 A per EtherCAT P segment already enables a wide range of sensors/actuators to be used. If it should be necessary to feed-in the voltages again, the EPP1332-0001 EtherCAT P junction can be used to feed in both U_S and U_P again at any point. The EPP1342-0001 should be used for topological branches without voltage boost.