Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product cFP-20xx National Instruments
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323493A-01 October 2002 © 2002 National Instru ments Corp. All rights reser ved. FieldPoint™, National Inst ruments™, NI™, and ni.com™ are trademarks of National Instruments Corporation. Product and company names ment ioned herein are trade marks or trade names of thei r respective companies.
Compact FieldPoint Accessories 2 ni.com The Compact FieldPoint DB-9 cable adapter cannot be used with the Compact FieldPoint rack-mount kit. Refer to the Serial Cables section of the NI catal og or to ni.com for other DB-9 serial cables that you can use with a rack-mounted Compact FieldPoint system.
© National Instruments Corp. 3 Compact FieldPoint Accessories Part number 778674 -01 is a DIN rail–mountable scre w terminal adapter consisting of an RJ-50 serial cable and a 10-position screw terminal block. Figure 3. Compact FieldPoint DIN Rail – Mountable T erminal Block Refer to the Serial Cables section of the NI catalog or to ni.
Compact FieldPoint Accessories 4 ni.com Signal Assignments for Serial Cable Adapters T able 1 lists the pins on all the cFP-20 xx controller cable adapters and the RS-232 and RS-485 signals assigned to them. I/O Connector Cable Adapters NI offers three c able adapters for use with the 37-pin I/O connectors on the Compact FieldPoint backplane.
© National Instruments Corp. 5 Compact FieldPoint Accessories Figure 4. Compact FieldPoint 37-Pin I/O Connector Cable Figure 5. Compact FieldPoint System with DIN Rail – Mounted T e rminal Blocks.
Compact FieldPoint Accessories 6 ni.com Part number 778620 -04 is a 37-pin female to loose-wires cable adapter of 4 m length. Y ou can use the loose wires to make cables for connecting directly to sensors or to custom connectors.
© National Instruments Corp. 7 Compact FieldPoint Accessories 10 White 10 11 Pink 11 12 Light Green 12 13 Black/White 13 14 Brown/Wh ite 14 15 Red/White 15 16 Orange/White 16 17 Green/White 17 18 Blu.
Compact FieldPoint Accessories 8 ni.com I/O Connector Protective Cover NI of fers a cov er to protect unused slots on the backplane from damage caused by dirt, tools, an d other potential hazards. The Compact FieldPoint protecti ve co ver is part number 778625-01.
© National Instruments Corp. 9 Compact FieldPoint Accessories The cFP DIN rail clip kit is designed for quick, con venient mounting on a 35 mm DIN rail. The kit includes the two scre ws s h o w ni nF i g u r e8 . Figure 8. Compact FieldPoint DIN Rail Clip with cFP-BP-4 NI offers tw o kits for secure, permanent mounting on a panel.
Compact FieldPoint Accessories 10 ni.com Figures 10 and 11 show the spacing between the mounting holes of the horizontal panel-mount kit installed on a cFP-BP-4 and a cFP-BP-8. Figure 10. Dimensions of Compact FieldPoint Horizon tal Panel-Mount Ki t Installed on cFP-BP-4 Figure 11.
© National Instruments Corp. 11 Compact FieldPoint Accessories Figure 13. Dimensions of Compact FieldPoint V ertical Panel-Mount Kit Figure 14. Compact FieldPoint Rack-Mount Kit with cFP-BP-4 178 mm (7 in.
Compact FieldPoint Accessories 12 ni.com Figure 15. Compact FieldPoint Rack-Mount Kit with cFP-BP-8 Data Storage Accessories NI of fers four industrially rated Compact Flash cards for use as remov able data stor age devices with the cFP-2020.
© National Instruments Corp. 13 Compact FieldPoint Accessories Where to Go for Support For more informatio n about setting up the Compact FieldPoint system, refer to the following National Instrument.
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