eWON500™
The Transparent Gateway
ver 1.0
9/11/05
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User Guide
The UNITELWAY/XIP gateway configuration
Hardware configuration
• Set up eWON™ dip switches to RS485 mode (with or without polarization depending on your network type)
• Connect the
serial cable between your eWON500™ and the PLC (see page 13)
IO server configuration
• Go to the UNITE IO server page: Configuration/IO Server Config/UNITE/Edit
• Validate the eWONServer Enabled checkbox
•
Modbus TCP Unit Address: holds the UnitID from the eWON
• Set the Baud Rate, Parity and Stop Bit(s) according to your device, and HW Mode to Half Duplex
•Let
Master response timeout, Rx message timeout and Tx message timeout empty (default values applied)
•Let
Force Unitelway V2 and Disable 0,254 translation unchecked
• Set the
ADO field to its default value (4)
•
XWAY Network.Station: must be identical to the one entered in the XIP driver configuration (i.e. 13.14)
PLC software configuration
• From your PLC management software (typically PL7Pro), configure the XIP driver with the eWON IP address as
destination node and with the UnitId of the targeted device (different than the Modbus TCP Unit Address from the eWON)
• Make an ICMP ping and test the XWAY driver, then Connect to the PLC
You are now connected to your PLC through your eWON500™
• Please refer to the Troubleshooting section from this document in case of an issue
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