Release Note
TH LINK PROFIBUS
Version 6.1
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Release Note
1. Components of the current product version
Component HW Release FW Release
TH LINK 2.0 6.1.0.0
2. Manuals of product version
Description Language Release
Installationsanleitung German 1.1
Installation Guide English 1.1
3. System requirements
For configuration of TH LINK and use of TH SCOPE easy the following system requirements
have to be fulfilled:
3.1. Network
• 1 free IP address
• enablement of ports 80 and IP 224.0.5.128 port 2364 UDP
3.2. Software
• Web browser with Adobe Flash player 10.0 or higher
• Adobe Reader 8 or higher to read documentation
• Application software for PROFIBUS configuration (i.e. PACTware or FieldCare)
4. Scope of delivery
The scope of delivery includes:
• TH LINK
• Installation Guide
5. Installation instruction
Please read the installation guide before installing the TH LINK.
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6. Compatibility
The TH LINK is compatible with
• TH SCOPE* release 1.1.0.0
• PROFIBUS Scope* release 4.2
• TH OPC Server DP release 2.0
• CommDTM PROFIBUS DP-V1 release 3.0 or higher
• TACC release 2.2 or higher
and supports baud rates up to 12 MBit/s.
* The TH LINK supports the marked applications as well as the preinstalled TH SCOPE easy
with baud rates up to 1,5 MBit/s.
7. Mean Time Between Failures
The MTBF value is 701,543 hours.
8. New and changed functions
New functions
• Display of the number of diagnostics in the Error statistics
• Filtering of data
• Hide/show table columns
Changed functions
• Navigation in the navigation tree is possible to the second level. The information of the
views from the third and fourth level are integrated in the inventory.
• Master list, Slave list and module list were deleted and the information was integrated
in the inventory.
• Device type, device ID and vendor are included in inventory.
• Time synchronisation: When the measurement is started without a valid time server or
taken over computer system time, all diagnostics will be displayed with a time stamp
of 1970. If a computer system time is taken over later, all previously occurred diagnostics will be recalculated to the correct date.
9. Bug Fixes
• In some cases failures were displayed, although no failures occurred.
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