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BX 10/10E MPU
« on: February 23, 2017, 07:46:07 PM »
Just a question on the BX 10/10E MPU units.

Limited to 2 expansion modules?
All other cpu's state that 8 modules can be added...

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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2017, 08:18:01 PM »
Just a question on the BX 10/10E MPU units.

Limited to 2 expansion modules?
All other cpu's state that 8 modules can be added...

To keep the price as low as possible, we choose to reduce power supply capacity. Also had space constraints that prevented the bigger capacity supply.
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2017, 09:55:55 PM »
So does that then also apply to the no I/O unit?
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2017, 10:26:46 PM »
No both the modular versions BX-DM1E-M and BX-DM1E-M-D support up to 8 Expansion modules.

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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2017, 10:31:07 PM »
Cool!  Is there a BX-EBC coming?
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2017, 10:45:26 PM »
Cool!  Is there a BX-EBC coming?

Yes, in two forms. A general purpose BX-EBC100 in the modular form, and a line of Do-more specific I/O bricks that will be identified as BX-DMIO-xx. Specific I/O mix is still being decided, but we expect all of the most common variants in -10, -18, and -36 housings. Those bricks will also support discrete and analog expansion.

When we're done with this, you'll be able to build very large BRX systems.
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2017, 10:47:46 PM »
Egggggselent!  [schemy fingers]
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2017, 12:12:06 PM »
Not that I have any multi-rack BRX projects in the chute, but for now the standard remote I/O is going to be 205 or Terminator I/O using Do-More RIO protocol, or whatever else we want to use, with Modbus/TCP or RTU?
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2017, 12:25:14 PM »
Not that I have any multi-rack BRX projects in the chute, but for now the standard remote I/O is going to be 205 or Terminator I/O using Do-More RIO protocol, or whatever else we want to use, with Modbus/TCP or RTU?

BRX Ethernet I/O support is identical to H2 and T1H, so yeah EBC100s work fine with it, as does anything Modbus. We hope to have the DMIO products out by summer-ish.
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2017, 12:48:55 PM »
Cool.  It actually will be nice to have multiple families of I/O to choose from so we can mix and match and pick the best fit for whatever I/O is connected to a given node.
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2017, 01:57:35 PM »
Speaking of RIO... I am working with EtherCAT on my current project... Unbelievably fast!  :o :o :o
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2017, 03:16:17 PM »
Speaking of RIO... I am working with EtherCAT on my current project... Unbelievably fast!  :o :o :o

We think we can probably get synchronous with BRX DMIO. How fast is EtherCAT?
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« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2017, 03:23:21 PM »
We think we can probably get synchronous with BRX DMIO. How fast is EtherCAT?

I believe I am getting around 10 microsecond response time on the physical IO, and around 50 microseconds through the processor.
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2017, 03:24:54 PM »
We think we can probably get synchronous with BRX DMIO. How fast is EtherCAT?

I believe I am getting around 10 microsecond response time on the physical IO, and around 50 microseconds through the processor.

What is the processor?
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Re: BX 10/10E MPU
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2017, 03:37:19 PM »
We think we can probably get synchronous with BRX DMIO. How fast is EtherCAT?

I believe I am getting around 10 microsecond response time on the physical IO, and around 50 microseconds through the processor.

What is the processor?

This is using InTime RTOS on a PC talking to Beckhoff EtherCAT nodes.
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