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Echochange - Manual / Connection
8 Connection
This chapter describes the dialog boxes used to handle connections.
Other dialog boxes are described in the Windows, Main Menu chapters.
This chapter covers the following topics:
New Connection
Connection Settings
Edit Connection
Copy Connection
Delete Connection
Disable Connection
8.1 New Connection
New Connection
For each hardware system to be accessed (i.e. with which a communication needs to be
established), you must create at least one connection in the device. This connection defines the
access path to the hardware, i.e. the channel between the two communication partners.
In this dialog box, you can specify the following:
Connection Name
You can choose any connection name you like. It may contain only letters and numbers. The
connection name you specify here can be selected in other dialog boxes.
Connection Type
Here, you can select the type of the connection to be created. This is a cascading dialog box. When
you select an image or a button, other options will appear. When you select one of those options,
another level may be displayed.
8.1.1 New Connection – echochange
This dialog enables you to establish a new connection.
Each echochange connection actually consists of 2 individual connections that are coupled. One is
displayed on the left side, the other on the right side. To facilitate the view on this connection pair
with the expert mode disabled, the left side is considered to be the passive side, the right side the
active side. Once the connection on the left (passive) side is up, the connection on the right (active)
side will be established.
For each side, you can select the transport and application protocols individually.
To configure how data from the passive connection will be transmitted to the active connection, an
allocation table in the PLC Conversion Table dialog box is used.
Name of the Connection
You can choose any connection name you like. All characters except brackets may be used.
Expert mode
Disables the simplified display defining the left side as passive and the right side as active. Displays
the settings for Send/Receive (raw data) connections, for which the support is subject to a charge.
With the Expert mode disabled, using the connection is free of charge.
Transport Protocol Passive / Active or Left / Right
You can select the TCP/IP or H1 transport protocol for the desired side.
Application Protocol Passive / Active or Left / Right
You can select the application protocol for the desired side. The available protocols are S5 and S7
(Siemens), ControlLogix and SLC / PLC-5 (Allen-Bradley) as well as MELSEC-Q (Mitsubishi Electric)
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