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Building Technologies Basic documentation: Communication via the KNX bus CE1P3127en
HVAC Products Contents 30.08.2007
Contents
1 KNX (Konnex) and Synco........................................................................7
1.1 General overview .......................................................................................7
1.1.1 Definition of terms......................................................................................8
1.2 Synco 700, 900, RXB/RXL range ............................................................10
1.2.1 Collective terms for the device types .......................................................11
1.2.2 Product markings on Synco bus devices.................................................11
1.3 The KNX network.....................................................................................12
1.3.1 Full-scale KNX network............................................................................12
1.3.2 Network address ......................................................................................13
1.3.3 Device address ........................................................................................14
1.4 Area/line couplers and IP router ..............................................................15
2 Engineering notes..................................................................................17
2.1 Designing the network .............................................................................17
2.1.1 Design engineering procedure.................................................................17
2.1.2 Number of bus devices per line, area and network .................................18
2.1.3 Bus load number E...................................................................................18
2.2 Bus power supply.....................................................................................19
2.2.1 Decentral bus power supply.....................................................................19
2.2.2 Power consumption of the bus devices ...................................................20
2.2.3 Central bus power supply ........................................................................21
2.3 Bus topologies..........................................................................................22
2.3.1 Distances and cable lengths....................................................................23
3 Commissioning notes ...........................................................................25
3.1 Points to check prior to commissioning....................................................25
3.2 Commissioning with the RMZ operator units...........................................26
3.2.1 Starting commissioning, plant mode "Off"................................................26
3.2.2 Terminating commissioning, plant mode "Auto".......................................28
4 Device address and device name.........................................................29
4.1 RM… controllers ......................................................................................29
4.1.1 Reading the area, line and device address .............................................29
4.1.2 Assigning device names ..........................................................................30
4.2 Setting device address with RMZ790 and RMZ791 operator units .........32
5 Device addresses via ACS....................................................................33
5.1 Service tool OCI700.1 and ACS7… software ..........................................33
5.1.1 Overview ..................................................................................................33
5.1.2 New plant .................................................................................................34
5.1.3 Establishing a connection ........................................................................35
5.1.4 Edit device list ..........................................................................................35