Ethernet TCP/IP to CompactLogix Gateway

Seamless data transfer between Ethernet TCP devices and and Allen Bradley CompactLogix PLC

Support for CompactlLogix

Reduce Your Investment by Networking multiple TCP devices with a single module

Transfer data from up to 10 TCP devices independently and simultaneously

Transfer data to multiple TCP devices independently and simultaneously

Support lots of devices with vastly different TCP data formats

Proven and reliable hardware platform

Transfer data with Little or No Latency

Quickly and Cost effectively integrate networks

No Software to Download or Code write

Simple Browser Based Configuration

490NBX

Move Ethernet TCP/IP Data to and from the Tags of a CompactLogix

The Fastest and Easiest Way to Move TCP/IP Data to an Allen Bradley CompactLogix Programmable Controller

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Moving Raw TCP to a PLC Made Easy

There are a ton of perfectly good scales, barcode readers, printers and display devices that communicate with TCP data. This is equipment that you've used for a long time. You know how to set it up, how to make it work and that it's reliable.

The problem is that you still have to connect these devices into your Allen Bradley CompactLogix PLC. That means writing and testing plc logic. Not hard – just another task to do and more code to support. But there is a better way, a much better way. If you could move the data right into the PLCs registers it would save you time, money and a pile of headaches.

That's the device we have developed for you. It quickly and easily moves Barcode data, Weigh Scale data and other TCP device data to Allen Bradley PLCs. The 490NBX moves your raw TCP data to a PLC with little or no delay. Milliseconds after receiving your raw TCP data it is transferred to your user-specified tag in the PLC. Simply configure the input data format, the IP Address of the PLC and a PLC tag using a very simple browser interface and you are ready to run. No standalone or custom software is required. It's that simple.

Smart CompactLogix Connection Solution for TCP data

Let’s me be very honest. There are gaps in the Rockwell Automation architecture. Those gaps are designed to move you up their automation product line into higher performance higher cost products. You can’t blame them for this model but there’s no reason you can’t find an alternative way to ad performance without purchasing expensive rack solutions.

That’s where the 490NBA comes in.

With the 490NBA you can now quickly and easily connect TCP devices to your CompactLogix PLC. The 490NBA exists for one purpose and one purpose only; Move data between up to 10 TCP devices and a Compact Logix PLC. This means you will never have to deal with 30 additional features you don’t need. You wont have to search through a hundred page manual, or burn the midnight oil to set up this unit. The 490NBA is designed for a single purpose so that it can be quickly and easily be configured and deployed.

What Makes it so Simple to Use?

Your data transfer is configured via your internet browser. Simply log into your unit using an included discovery tool and you are ready to configure the unit with the web browser interface. You set the ip address of your TCP devices. You define the data that gets transferred and you pick the tag it should end up in the PLC. There is no software to download or code to futz with. It sounds simple, and it is, that’s the point.

The 490NBA is the smart connection solution for moving data from TCP devices to a CompactLogix PLC. Saving you money and increasing the abilities of the PLCs within your automation processes.

490NBA Data Flow Diagram

Ethernet Hardware Serial Communications LEDs Physical

32-Bit Motorola Coldfire Two DB-9M Connectors Link/Speed LEDs Dimensions: 4.2" x 3"

10/100 BaseT Baud Rate: up to 115.2k DATA LED Weight: 5oz

RJ45 Connector Even/Odd/No/Space Parity

One RS232 Serial Port Power Requirements Environmental

Network Interface One RS232/485 Port 12VDC @ 500ma 0-70 Degrees C

Ethernet TCP/IP 9-30VDC 5 to 90% Relative Humidity

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Configuration Din Rail

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The Legend Begins
"It’s likely that your business isn't industrial networking. And it shouldn't be. You make products, products that do wonderful things. Whatever it is that you make the process creates data. If you're a control engineer and your plants been around for more than a few years your plant floor is probably littered with devices that send out all kinds of data, and in most case data talking in a lot of different protocols. If you're an automation device developer you probably need to move your data into some other network. Either way, you've got a device conversion problem. You have devices that generate ASCII data, Modbus RTU, Ethernet TCP Data, DeviceNet data or some completely proprietary data and now you're the guy that has to move that data to some other network!

I feel your pain… and better than my sympathy I have a solution for you. You see while your business isn't moving data around the factory floor mine is. In fact it is all we have done for more than twenty years now. Our 460 series of Device Converters line is the culmination of those twenty years. You can now move all of your data, where you want, when you want and how you want. Best of all THE HARDEST PART IS OPENING THE BOX".

-John Rinaldi

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