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[geniusintraining]

Hello all,

First thanks for providing us great tools to do our jobs

Second, It would be nice if... you could provide application help, not on how to write a plc program but more along the lines...say I just bought a multi section conveyor and I am in need of drives, plc, devicenet modules (if I use that) etc, someone to guide me and tell me if this large list of stuff will work together, I know its a big question, but that is the hardest part of my job... choosing the parts, then praying that it all works out in the end, it has so far. If you already have this service please forgive me and post a link so I can bug the out of someone else   

Thanks to some of the VERY smart people that have already finished the 'genius training', they have helped me on other forum sites  make use of the AD plc's and they are great...

So now on to my question...I have some XX drives (XX = other manufacture) that have Devicenet modules on them that I would like to use (they are free, my boss likes that word) so can I use a DL06 (great product) with a DO-DEVNET to communicate with them? reading info on them they say they are "slave" so does this mean that I need a master on the network? and these plc's can not be masters or is master and slave just a term and it means very little

Many Thanks 
GIT...

[MikeS]

the ad.com part number is d0-devnets. the trailing 's' means slave, which means it requires a devicenet master to control it. so to answer your question, the d0-devnets won't control your drives because they, like your drives, are devicenet slaves.

at one time, ad.com had plans to build a devicenet master module for the dl-205 series, i'm not sure where that stands right now.

[geniusintraining]

Thanks for the reply Mike...I guess I'm going to just use a discrete i/o input to the drive, they allready had the device-net modules on them...I was just hopping I could a learn new communication method

Thanks again 

[Controls Guy]

at one time, ad.com had plans to build a devicenet master module for the dl-205 series, i'm not sure where that stands right now.

I guess it got built but is evidently not being sold in the US.  See DeviceNet Master Card