Introduction
Fig.4: EL6633-00102-port communication interface, PROFINET RT, device
The EL6633-0010 PROFINET RT Device terminal succeeds the EL6631-0010 and enables simple data exchange between EtherCAT and PROFINET RT. It is a device in the EtherCAT segment, which can consist of up to 65,535 devices.
The EL6633-0010 has a 3-port switch. Two ports are fed to the outside on RJ45 sockets. This allows the I/O stations to be structured as a line topology, as a result of which the wiring is simplified. The maximum distance between two devices is 100 m. Protocols such as LLDP or SNMP can be used for network diagnostics.
The EtherCAT Terminal is supported in TwinCAT 3.1 Build 4024 and higher.