Allen-Bradley Compact 5000 User Manual

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Appendix A
Module Tags
Name Conventions
The module tags use defined naming conventions. The conventions are as
follows:
•Module name
•Slot number
• Tag type and channel number – If Generic ASCII or Modbus Slave is
used in the Module Definition for the channel.
• Tag type, channel number, and number of connections – If Modbus
Master is used in the Module Definition for the channel.
• Parameter
Generic ASCII and Modbus Slave Name Conventions
The following is an example for a Generic ASCII or Modbus Slave tag name.
The conventions for the example, “SERIAL_PROJECT:1:I0.RunMode”,
would be the following:
• SERIAL_PROJECT= name of the module
•1 = slot number
• I0 = tag type (input) and channel number (0)
– The possible Compact 5000 I/O serial tag types are I (input) and
O (output)
– The possible channels are channel 0 and channel 1
•RunMode = Parameter
Topic Page
Name Conventions 75
Access the Tags 76
Channel Configured Generic ASCII Tags 77
Channel Configured for Generic ASCII 78
Channel Configured for Modbus Master 82
Channel Configured for Modbus Slave 86

Allen-Bradley Compact 5000 Specifications

General

Brand	Allen-Bradley
Model	Compact 5000
Category	Control Unit
Language	English