EtherCAT Terminal, EL6631-0010

The EL6631-0010 PROFINET-IO device (slave) terminal allows easy data exchange between EtherCAT and PROFINET IO. It is a device in the EtherCAT segment, which can consist of up to 65,535 devices. The EL6631-0010 has a 3-port switch. Two ports are fed to the outside on RJ-45 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.