Danfoss MCA 124 Fact sheet

VLT® EtherCAT MCA 124

Cost-ecient connectivity to EtherCAT based networks

Ordering number

Uncoated 130B5545
Coated 130B5646

The VLT® EtherCAT MCA 124 interface
allows the VLT® AutomationDrive to
participate in EtherCAT networks for
high performance applications. The
interface utilizes the newest develop­ments from the EtherCAT Technology
Group and gives the user full func­tionality, the highest degree of
exibility and outstanding perfor­mance.

The MCA 124 option supports full
control of the drive, access to I/O
modules and control of the advanced
synchronising and position option
(VLT® Motion Control MCO 305).

Ease of use

The Cyclical I/O size (PDO) is fully
exible and can be adjusted to t the
application.

This removes the transportation of
empty data, and so improves the
performance of both the network and
the PLC.

The conguration of the drive can be
read or written via the PC based VLT®
Motion Control Tool MCT 10 over the
EtherCAT bus. This enables cost
eective handling for backup and
restoring of drive conguration, with
no need for separate cabling.

The built-in web server provides
remote diagnosis and reading of basic
drive parameters. This cost-reducing
feature eliminates the need to install a
separate computer to monitor the
system.

Features Benets

Uses standard Ethernet cable

EoE, Ethernet over EtherCAT

E-mail notier

Two Ethernet ports with built-in switch

Support of DCP (discovery and conguration
protocol)

Variable PDO size

PDOs fullly congurable from master system

Cost eective cabling with standard, o the
shelf cables

Uses standard Ethernet TCP/IP communica­tion protocols

Higher system performance as no computer
is needed to monitor alarms. The VLT®
EtherCAT 124 noties if warnings or alarms
occur.

• Simple cabling

• No need for expensive switches or hubs

Makes topology and neighbourhood
recognition and an IP-address assertion from
PLC possible

Better use of the EtherCAT bandwidth and
the PLC I/O memory

Reduced conguration time when exchang­ing the drive, communication parameters are
set from central location

Facts about our products

Thanks to its easy handling, EtherCAT
is a cost-eective solution that is easy
to implement from simple I/O up to
high-speed servo applications with
synchronizing capabilities.

Application protocols

CoE: CAN over EtherCAT Support

EoE: Ethernet-over-EtherCAT-support

FoE: File over EtherCAT, for update of the option rmware

Topology

Line Topology:

HTTP

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) for e-mail notication

DHCP

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Server for le up and download

TCP/I P­Socket­Port

(Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
for diagnosis via built-in web server

(Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol)
for automatic IP address conguration

for easy access to drive conguration data from MCT 10

Ring Topology:

Danfoss VLT Drives, Ulsnaes 1, DK-6300 Graasten, Denmark, Tel. [phone], Fax [phone]

www.danfoss.com/drives • [e-mail]

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