Assembly

Notice

Electrostatic discharge

Electrical components can be damaged by electrostatic discharge. Observe ESD protection measures during assembly. Ensure the environment is well-grounded with ESD-compliant floors, gloves, clothing and workstations.

The FC1028 EtherCAT card requires a PCIe x4 slot that complies with the PCIe 2.0 standard. In principle, the card can also be operated in longer slots, i.e. in PCIe x8 or PCIe x16 slots. The slots simply need to support four PCIe lanes.

Assembly 1:Fig.4: FC1028 EtherCAT card, dimensions.

The EtherCAT card does not require an external power supply. The card is supplied directly from the industrial PC via the PCIe bus. The power supply of the industrial PC has to be sufficient in order to meet the power requirement of the EtherCAT cards, particularly if several EtherCAT cards are installed.

Proceed as follows:

1. Before installing the EtherCAT card, switch off the industrial PC and any external power supplies, and disconnect the PC from the mains.
2. Open the housing of the industrial PC and remove the cover plate on a free PCIe slot in the motherboard in the housing wall of the industrial PC.
3. Insert the EtherCAT card into the free PCIe slot and fix it with the screw or device provided. Make sure that there is enough space between the EtherCAT card and other PC components so that the EtherCAT card cannot touch any other plug-in cards or motherboard components.
After a restart, the EtherCAT card is automatically detected. No additional drivers need to be installed.