Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Multibeam BEA
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MULTIBEAM USER'S G UIDE This interface system has been de veloped to be the link between a program mable controller and a 16 Microcell-t ype beam. This sy stem simplifies the wiring of the beam s and reduces the number of connections to the controller b y using a n R S485 intelligent comm unication.
Functional wiring structure: On the receiving m odule 1 6 red LEDs sho w the sta tus of each beam . Plug c onnectors with 3.5 m m pitch are used. T he 2 twisted wires ena ble the conn ection of each hea d to the c ontroller. The wires must b e bet ween 0.
1. Hardware : The communication module uses the standard RS485, the driver is a lo w EMI 250 Kbits-t ype, protected agai nst electrostatic d ischarges. Up to 32 term inals m ay be connected on the sam e BUS line. The twin-wire c omm unication enables the Ha lf Duplex operatin g mode.
Calculating the time of a cycle Beams proc ess tim e : 20.000m s Transfer time of the f rame to the MB at 9600 bps : 9.75ms W aiting time between interr ogation an d answer : 1.50ms Transfer time of the answer from the MB at 9600 bps : 13.54m s Total time of a 9600 bps c ycle : 44.
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