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Hardware Selection and Safety Wiring Layout Chapter 2
3. Consult the table below for additional capabilities and performance to further select your safety controller
platform.
This toolkit supports 1756 GuardLogix, 1768 Compact GuardLogix, 5370 Compact GuardLogix, and 
1752 SmartGuard 600 controllers.
4. Refer to the Safety Products Catalog, available at http://www.ab.com/catalogs/, to determine which safety devices
meet your functional requirement specification.
5. Refer to the Safety Products Catalog, available at http://www.ab.com/catalogs/,
to select Guard I/O™ modules
that fit your network specifications and number of required inputs and outputs.
Table 6 - Capabilities and Performance
Controller Platform Capacity Functionality Performance
GuardLogix (1756) Up to 125 nodes (max) • Safety and standard control logic
• Extensive suite of safety application
instructions
• CIP Safety on Ethernet, ControlNet, and
DeviceNet
• Superior ease of use
• High performance integrated safety
• Use GuardLogix calculator and
estimating tools to calculate
performance.
Compact GuardLogix (1768) Up to 64 nodes (max) Same as GuardLogix, except CIP Safety only on
Eth
ernet
Similar performance to GuardLogix
Compact GuardLogix (5370) Up to 48 nodes (max) Same as GuardLogix, except CIP Safety only on
Ethernet
Similar performance to GuardLogix
SmartGuard 600 (1752) • 16 safety inputs
•8 safety outputs
• 4 standard inputs
• 6…8 networked safety expansion modules
(practical performance limits)
• 254 configurable function blocks
Only Safety logic Cost-effective safety retrofit to existing
systems