Add and configure powerflex drives – Rockwell Automation 193 Drives and Motion Accelerator Toolkit Quick Start User Manual

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Rockwell Automation Publication IASIMP-QS019E-EN-P - August 2013

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Controller, Network, and Device Configuration Without the DMAT Wizard

Appendix G

Add and Configure PowerFlex Drives

Follow these steps to add and configure each individual drive you intend to have in your system. For the
Widg-O-matic machine application example, you configure a PowerFlex 753 drive.

1.

Open your Logix Designer project file created in the previous section (for the Widgomatic example, the
project file name was Widgomatic.acd).

2.

Expand the I/O Configuration
folder in the Controller
Organizer and browse to the
controller backplane.

3.

Right-click the network
communication module for your
PowerFlex drive and select New
Module.

For the Widg-O-matic example,
the 1756-EN2TR module is
selected.

The Select Module dialog box
opens.

4.

Expand the Drives category and
select the appropriate PowerFlex
drive module.

For the Widg-O-matic example, the PowerFlex 753 drive is selected for the conveyor drive.

5.

Click OK.

The New Module dialog box opens.

6.

Configure the new module.

a. Type the module Name.

b. Select an Ethernet Address

option.
In this example, the Private
Network address is selected.

7.

In the Module Definition field click
Change.

The Module Definition dialog box
opens.

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