HBM ClipX - Overview

Overview
ClipX
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Make sure you always have, and are using, the documentation version
matching your device. After a firmware update, for example, you can download
the current version of the full documentation from the HBM website:
https://www.hbm.com/ClipX
. To read this documentation you need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader. You can download the Acrobat Reader free of charge from the
Adobe website.
About ClipX
By buying a ClipX measuring amplifier, you have chosen a high-quality HBM
measurement system that is compact, powerful and variable. You can connect
the ClipX via the standard Ethernet port to a PC, and parameterize and control
the device via its internal web server. You can connect to an automation system
via the digital and analog inputs/outputs and/or via one of the fieldbus interfaces
PROFIBUS
®
, PROFINET
®
, EtherNet/IP™
1)
or EtherCAT
2)
(depending on
device type). One input per device is provided for different sensors (strain gage,
voltage, current, potentiometer or Pt100), and you can connect sensors with
zero-wire TEDS or 1-wire TEDS. The device additionally features a peak value
memory, instantaneous value memory, limit value switches, and six calculated
channels, as well as offering the facility to display one signal from each of up to
five additional devices and forward the signals to the interfaces. The ClipX is
normally mounted on a support rail; the mounting materials are supplied.
The ClipX documentation
• Quick Start Guide (supplied)
• This manual in PDF format
• Data sheet listing the technical data
• Online help on the device's internal web server
1)
EtherNet/IP™ is a trademark of ODVA Inc. For more information regarding ODVA, visit
www.odva.org.
2)
EtherCAT
®
is registered trademark and patented technology, licensed by Beckhoff
Automation GmbH, Germany.