Connect ASCII Devices to a ControlLogix PLC

Get Your ASCII Devices Connected Directly to the Data Table of your ControlLogix PLC
The 460ETCA moves data between a serial ASCII device and 1-5 Allen-Bradley PLC’s.

With the 460ETCA you now have a solution to get ASCII weather stations, UPS systems and any other ASCII devices that output a compound ASCII string connected to your Allen-Bradley PLC’s. With the 460ETCA your ASCII devices are quickly and easily connected to user defined Tags or Registers in the data table of your Allen-Bradley PLC.

With the 460ETCA you are making a direct connection between ASCII device data and user defined Tags or Registers in the data table of your ControlLogix PLC. There is no polling from the PLC or Ethernet/IP scan lists to arrange. With the 460ETCA your ASCII devices are quickly and easily connected to user defined Tags or Registers in the data table of your ControlLogix PLC.

How Does the Data Move In and Out of the PLC?
Incoming and outgoing ASCII data is mapped to and from user defined tags or registers in the data table of your ControlLogix PLC. You allocate two areas of tags or register blocks in your ControlLogix PLC. One area is a user defined set of write only tags or register blocks accepting ASCII data. The other area is full of read only tags or register blocks to send data to your ASCII device. You directly map ASCII data into read and write locations in the data table of your ControlLogix PLC.

If your device uses delimiters, the 460ETCA can be configured to automatically remove the delimiters on incoming messages and add delimiters back in on outgoing messages. No need to deal with the delimiters in your PLC. If you need to parse your data, the 460ETCA can parse a string of ASCII data in up to 20 segments by delimiter or offset.

It’s designed to be a simple ASCII interface and it really is that simple.

Why Use Real Time Automation as a Gateway Supplier?
The 460ETCA provides an option to access those ASCII devices that always seem to creep into your architecture no matter how hard you try to keep them out. With the 460ETCA you can easily connect to those devices with your ControlLogix PLC.

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