Facility Explorer FX16 - Detailed Operation Procedures

FX16 Master Controller Technical Bulletin 71
Detailed Operation Procedures
Local Link Extension Bus
The FX16 Master Controller is the highest level field controller in the
Facility Explorer system and is very flexible in terms of expandability.
The FX16 allows you to connect devices to the Local Link Extension
Bus via expansion I/O modules, Distributed Application, or Gateway
strategy.
The maximum recommended point expansion, using the FX16 Master
Controller in a Distributed Application, is 300 monitored physical data
points. See Figure 58.
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Figure 58: FX16 Master Controller Expansion
In this example:
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FX16 master controller Æ 27 points +
• 8 x FX15 Slave controllers Æ (8 x 27 points) 216 points +
• XT/XP modules connected to FX16 Æ 56 points =
299 points