Check of ATV Communication Interfaces

[ble]

Hello everyone,

I want to check the functionality of various ATV interfaces such as Profinet, Profibus or EtherCat using a PLC a HMI and gateways to convert Modbus-RTU to these protocolls. But now the problem is that these gateways can only convert Modbus-RTU Slave to e.g. Profinet Slave or EtherCat Slave, but needed is the Master variant to connect ATVs.. does anyone know why this is or has an other idea to easily check the communication functionality of ATVs?

[Bastian_Schmitz]

Hi, 

Please declare more in detail your needs. I did not understand your problem at the moment. With every ATV communication card the drive act as Server (Slave). That is for such a device which act as part of a bigger machine in my opinion the standard. I did not see any need that the drive need to be a client (Master).

[quitzonsandy]

Can you please be more specific about what you require? At the time, I was unable to grasp the nature of your predicament. The drive itself serves as a Server for all ATV communication cards (Slave). That's the gold standard, in my book, for a gadget like that, which functions as a component of a larger machine. I didn't think the drive needed a client (Master).  monkey mart