Rockwell Automation 283A ArmorStart with ArmorPoint Backplane - Getting Started - Manual (Page 16)

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Publication 283A-QS001C-EN-P - July 2006
The only configuration that the user needs to be concerned with for the
ArmorPoint communication adapter is either the EtherNet IP address or the
ControlNet node address.
Since there currently is no profile for an ArmorStart device in the I\O Tree,
the 1738-MODULE profile needs to be used as a generic profile. The
standard configuration for an ArmorStart 283A, using this profile is shown
below.
Figure 10 ArmorStart Configuration using 1738-MODULE Profile
Logic Configuration Details
Inside the Configurator file is a large User Defined structure called
Armor_Start_System, which contains all of the data for both the
configuration of the routine, and also storage space for all of the ArmorStart
parameters. With 20 devices, the total memory needed to hold this structure
in the Logix controller is 195K bytes. The diagram below shows the upper
part of the structure and 3 important elements.
Figure 11 Configurator File — Armor_Start_System
Armor_Start_System.Max_Devices defaults to 20; because the total
number of devices that the structure is designed to hold initially, is 20. This
amount can be easily changed, but doing so will also necessitate a
change to the size of the System Array structure to match exactly.
Note: The Logix memory that contains the structure will also change
size proportionally.