Opening the serial definitions window – Yaskawa MP900 Series Machine Controller for Standard Operation User Manual
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3.7 MP940 Module Definitions
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be used as a engineering port to connect the CP-717 as an engineering interface.
This section describes the hardware and software settings required for serial transmissions.
These setting will enable the MP940 to function as either a master or slave under the speci-
fied protocol.
Serial transmissions are programmed in the drawing and function programs to send and
receive data using the MSG-SND and MSG-RCV functions.
Opening the Serial Definitions Window
Open the Serial Definitions Window by referring to 3.3 Basic Individual Module Definition
Operations.
BAT
RDY
RUN
ALM
BAT
PRT1
6
5
4
3
2
1
NO
→
PRT2
RUN
INIT
TEST
FLASH
PP
COPY
PORT1
PORT2
POWER
+24V
GND
FG
LE
D
I/O
TX
RX
1
2
M
E
C
H
A
T
R
O
L
I
N
K
MP940
MDR-14
MDR-14
RS-422 /
485
RS-232C
PORT1
PORT2
Communica-
tions CPU
Transmission
processor 1
Transmission
processor 2