Lenze i550 - Networks Configuration

5 EtherCAT
Connection to Engineering Tools
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5.7 Connection to Engineering Tools
The Lenze Controller provides a gateway function to establish an online connection to a field device via EtherCAT.
Fig. 4: Example: EtherCAT bus system with a Lenze Controller 3231 C as gateway
1. Before the Controller can be used as gateway the inverters must be defined in the controller first. To do so
the inverters have to be added in the PLC designer. Afterwards the project has to be loaded in the controller.
(See 5.6 EtherCAT quick start (Lenze Controller) on page 24)
2. Start Easy starter and select the connection “Ethernet – EtherCAT via Lenze controller.
Enter the IP address of the controller. (By clicking the Ping button, you can carry out a simple test which veri-
fies whether the controller can actually be reached via the IP address set)
Click “Insert”