Communication Guide

Standard connection

The standard connection conforms to the Modbus specifications, sepecially 2 wire multidrop serial bus diagram, presented at the website of Modbus.org in 2002 (Modbus_over_serial_line_V1.pdf, Nov.2002). Simple wiring diagram is like below.

The characteristics is like below in case of a direct connection to the bus.

Items

Contents

 

 

Type of trunk cable

single, shielded, twisted pair cable.

Min 3rd cable

 

 

 

Maximum length of the bus

1000m (3,2181 ft) (at 19.2kbps)

 

 

Maximum number of

32 stations (31 slaves)

stations without repeater

 

 

 

 

20m (66ft, at 1 tapoff)

Maximum length of tapoffs

40m (131ft, divided by tapoff no.

 

in Multi-Junction Box)

 

 

 

450 - 650Pullup resistor, 5V basis

 

450 - 650Pulldown resistor,

Bus polarization

Recommend the polarization to Master at

 

Common. There is no polarization at

 

RS485 of EOCR .

 

 

Line terminator

120Resistor, + /- 5%

 

 

Common polarity

YES (connect 1 protection ground minimum

to the bus)

 

 

 

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Schneider Electric iFBZ, FBZ2, EOCR-i3BZ, 3BZ2 manual Standard connection