Page 3 - Table of Contents
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance V1.31 page 3 of 85 Table of Contents 1 General Notes 7 1.1 Scope of Delivery 7 1.2 Safety Notes 7 1.3 Intended Use 7 1.4 System Requirements 7 1.4.1 Operating Systems 7 2 Hardware Installation 8 2.1 Overview Hardware – F...
Page 4 - The screen FF-CONF and general descriptions
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance page 4 of 85 V1.3 4.5 <Configuration> 23 4.5.1 <Configuration><Settings> 23 4.5.1.1 <Configuration><Settings><General Settings> 23 4.5.1.2 <Configuration><Settings><Inte...
Page 6 - Block types first approach; Error handling and troubleshooting
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance page 6 of 85 V1.3 5.8.2.7 Block types first approach 72 5.8.3 Schedule View 73 5.9 Handling Host devices 73 6 Error handling and troubleshooting 74 7 Appendix A - Bus Parameter Configuration 76 7.1 Bus parameters relevan...
Page 7 - General Notes; Scope of Delivery; Opening the unit will void the warranty!; System Requirements
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance General Notes V1.31 page 7 of 85 1 General Notes Please read this document thoroughly from beginning to end before starting installation to protect users from injury and to prevent misuse or damage to the Linking Device....
Page 8 - Hardware Installation; Overview Hardware; – Meaning
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Hardware Installation page 8 of 85 V1.3 2 Hardware Installation 2.1 Overview Hardware – FG-110 FF Fig 2.1-1 Overview Hardware – FG-110 FF power and data connections 2.2 LED Block – Meaning PWR The "PWR" LED indic...
Page 9 - symbol and must be connected to the
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Hardware Installation V1.31 page 9 of 85 2.3 Power Supply The Linking Device is powered by 24 V DC. The power supply plug connector is included in the delivery. The power supply socket connector on the front panel is lab...
Page 11 - FF H1 fieldbus connection; – FF4). Although the Linking Device is not polarity sensitive,; The upper cover provides access to single parts like
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Hardware Installation V1.31 page 11 of 85 Stahl. You will find this manual on the CD-ROM or on the internet web page http://www.r- stahl.com 2.6 FF H1 fieldbus connection The fieldbus terminals are mounted in 4 sets of t...
Page 12 - Please ensure against the direct contact with the sunlight.; Installation Overview; The whole installation is wired as shown in the picture.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Hardware Installation page 12 of 85 V1.3 Fig 2.7-1 Mounting the Linking Device ready for use: the SOFTING Foundation Fieldbus Interface Module FIM 110 The Linking Device is convection-cooled. It therefore needs to be ins...
Page 13 - Ethernet Network Configuration; Linking Device IP address Configuration
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Ethernet Network Configuration V1.31 page 13 of 85 3 Ethernet Network Configuration 3.1 Linking Device IP address Configuration The Linking Device is delivered with a pre-configured IP address 192.168.177.177. It must be...
Page 14 - Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server; Homepage of the Linking Device FG-110 FF
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server page 14 of 85 V1.3 4 Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server The internal web server of the Linking Device FG-110 FF offers the possibilities to configure the Linking...
Page 18 - On the screen two tables are shown.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server page 18 of 85 V1.3 Fig 4.3-1 System - actual Information of the Linking Device state 4.3.2 <Diagnostics><Internet Protocol> The table <Internet Protocol> l...
Page 22 - Click Options to display the point pages and point data.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server page 22 of 85 V1.3 Fig 4.3-6 Modbus TCP Statistics 4.4 <Monitor> Click <Monitor> Options to display the point pages and point data. 4.4.1 <Monitor> <Poi...
Page 27 - maintenance, executive
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server V1.31 page 27 of 85 4.5.1.4 <Configuration><Settings><User Account> The Linking Device is shipped with default user password. Under this menu item you can ...
Page 30 - Erase causes the deletion of the valid configuration.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server page 30 of 85 V1.3 Press the button <Save Configuration> another window appears on the screen which enables you to search for a folder in your directory on your PC or ...
Page 31 - > you can move the chosen point page so that the pages are sorted
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server V1.31 page 31 of 85 If the Linking Device is connected to a network and if you want to use this feature, you can select a timeserver at your facility or one near you geograp...
Page 32 - The table below the page name
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server page 32 of 85 V1.3 Another window appears with a table where the valid Points for this point page are listed. Over the table there is an input box with the name of the point...
Page 35 - If you designate the blocks (up to 32 ASCII-characters) it is useful
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server V1.31 page 35 of 85 - Device: Devices (PD Tags) on segment In the table below is shown the function block type (Block Type), function block name (Block Name) and the descrip...
Page 38 - out; or; in; value of the
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Linking Device FG-110 FF - Internal Web Server page 38 of 85 V1.3 4.5.5.2 <Configuration><Modbus><Mapping> Fig 4.5-17 Change settings of the Modbus Mapping The functions of the Modbus mapping in the Lin...
Page 40 - FF-CONF Configure your plant; The screen FF-CONF and general descriptions
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 40 of 85 V1.3 5 FF-CONF Configure your plant By choosing the FF-CONFsetup.exe you will start the installation routine of the FF-CONF program. To start FF-CONF it is not necessary to acti...
Page 42 - The item Build consists of the two functions; Check All; With the function the whole project is checked
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 42 of 85 V1.3 5.1.2.3 View 5.1-4 View – shows you the displayed contents of the project With <View> you can activate the desired contents like the Network Livelist, Schedule View o...
Page 43 - After a successful download the units are fully operable.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 43 of 85 Build All <Build All> Build all first checks the configuration and then builds a download domain if there are no error messages which prevent generation of the downl...
Page 44 - – the Network Livelist – you must change to the online mode. When; Tool Settings
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 44 of 85 V1.3 5.1.2.6 Online When FF-CONF is started with a new or an existent project FF-CONF is in mode offline. You can configure devices or build your Function Block application in t...
Page 45 - Main view tabs
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 45 of 85 Here you define the cycles of the auto save and the handling with Tag names. If you want to add or to change the project description you can do it here even so the project...
Page 46 - The Network Livelist shows you the currently active
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 46 of 85 V1.3 Fig 5.1-13 The changed mouse pointer allows you to move the whole configuration picture 5.1.4.2 <Function Block Application> The tab <Function Block Application>...
Page 48 - Meaning of the icons below the contents:
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 48 of 85 V1.3 Fig 5.1-15 Content of Device Types, the icons to process them and filters to select Device Types Meaning of the icons below the contents: ● - to sort by Device Name ● - to ...
Page 51 - General Information
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 51 of 85 Fig 5.1-19 The H1_Device_1 properties of the marked device are shown 5.1.7 Filtering the contents Here you find the possibility to set filters and so you may select the co...
Page 52 - Ethernet component which corresponds with the Linking Device.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 52 of 85 V1.3 5.2.2 Objects within the Network Configuration PC Here you are working online or offline to build your Network Configuration and commission your installation. HSE Subnet Et...
Page 54 - After a short time you see the screen to work with.; Managing the Device type library; HSE and H1 device types.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 54 of 85 V1.3 After a short time you see the screen to work with. Fig 5.3-2 Basic screen to load an existent or a new project The above screenshot shows the start screen of FF-CONF if yo...
Page 55 - button of the device type view (
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 55 of 85 Fig 5.4-1 Select a .cff file for adding an H1 device to the list of Device Types. The device library contains the description of H1 device types. The description of a devi...
Page 56 - Project handling; After the preliminaries you can start a new project.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 56 of 85 V1.3 Exception: HSE Devices cannot be removed. You get the notification: 5.5 Project handling In the menu item <Network Configuration> you start the main configuration wor...
Page 57 - “autosave” you can define the auto save in any number of seconds
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 57 of 85 5.5.2 Save project You can save the project manually whenever you want. You have two options to do this: Fig 5.5-3 Save your project manually If you save your project at o...
Page 58 - Network configuration; need only the offline status to do this.; Objects within the network configuration
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 58 of 85 V1.3 5.6 Network configuration The most important part of the project handling is the Network Configuration. You can configure a network in two ways: ● You adapt the network con...
Page 59 - to the left of the
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 59 of 85 5.6.3 Add a Linking Device (HSE) To add a Linking Device to the configuration press the green button to the left of the selected Linking Device in the list Device Types. F...
Page 61 - and the menu item “Device H1 Device X (device number)
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 61 of 85 The H1 link object represents the port of the linking device with the H1 VFD and the bus parameters common for every device on this link. 5.6.5 Add H1 Device (Field Device...
Page 62 - Network Livelist
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 62 of 85 V1.3 5.7 Network Livelist The commissioning of your plant needs to adapt the data of your Network Configuration to the installation which really exists (Network Livelist). You m...
Page 63 - ● physical connection and
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 63 of 85 When you first change from <Network Configuration> to the <Network Livelist> you click on the menu item <View> <Network Livelist>. Beside the menu ...
Page 64 - In the same way you can pull down the tab
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 64 of 85 V1.3 In the same way you can pull down the tab Network configuration . So you get two windows in variable size and positions. This way you have the best possibilities to compare...
Page 65 - Function Block Application; ’s topology direct communication
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 65 of 85 Device assignment is a time consuming action. During assignment, the device within the network configuration view gets a yellow bullet. The physical device within Network ...
Page 66 - Each block can be used in only one application; Configure the Function Block application; There are 2 ways to configure a function block application:
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 66 of 85 V1.3 Copy and paste groups and applications To realize big installation without any problem, and to record all the blocks and connections repeatedly use the possibility to copy ...
Page 67 - ● Select the Function Block application tab.
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 67 of 85 ● Select the Function Block application tab. ● Select the blocks tab. The blocks tab contains all configured blocks. These can be filtered. ● Set the profiles filter, for ...
Page 68 - Configure a connection by pressing the link buttons:
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 68 of 85 V1.3 5.8.2.3 Configure connections Fig 5.8-4 Configure connections Configure a connection by pressing the link buttons: 1. select output pin (H1_Device _3_PID_3.BKCAL_OUT) 2. se...
Page 69 - Next you see the block parameters and can changes the values.; umn “Handling” for
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 69 of 85 Fig 5.8-5 Click FB Parameter View Next you see the block parameters and can changes the values. Fig 5.8-6 Change values of the block parameters First select the parameter ...
Page 70 - general information
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 70 of 85 V1.3 general information . Independently from the block tag the type of the block is shown in brackets. Fig 5.8-7 Rename blocks Fig 5.8-8 Choose a block to see or edit parameter...
Page 71 - Now you see all the parameters of the first block
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 71 of 85 5.8.2.6 Changing parameters online It is also possible to call the parameter view of all blocks of a device by selecting the device and pressing the icon <Open paramete...
Page 72 - tag
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant page 72 of 85 V1.3 5.8.2.7 Block types first approach You can also enter the instance of a block type without device association to a function block application by clicking the *button of a s...
Page 73 - Handling Host devices
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance FF-CONF Configure your plant V1.31 page 73 of 85 The same situation appears after copying a function block application or a whole group of function block applications because this copy action removes the device associati...
Page 76 - Appendix A - Bus Parameter Configuration; Bus parameters relevant for H1 devices
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Appendix A - Bus Parameter Configuration page 76 of 85 V1.3 7 Appendix A - Bus Parameter Configuration This section will help you configure the bus parameters of an H1 device or H1 link of a linking device correctly. It ...
Page 77 - BLM; Bus parameters relevant for H1 Links; Parameter Description
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Appendix A - Bus Parameter Configuration V1.31 page 77 of 85 V(MRD) MaxResponseDelay SlotTimes, V(MRD) × V(ST). Both parameters are specified in octet durations. The attributes MaxResponseDelay and SlotTime should be set...
Page 78 - Ranges and/or restrictions denoted with the column
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Appendix A - Bus Parameter Configuration page 78 of 85 V1.3 can be granted only when the remaining time is higher than DefMinTokenDelegTime. The parameter is specified in octet durations. TargetTokenRotTime This paramete...
Page 79 - Glossary; General remarks of the user manual; Term
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance Glossary V1.31 page 79 of 85 8 Glossary Explains specialist terms of the organisation, configuration, device types and the handling of FF-CONF. 8.1 General remarks of the user manual Term Definitions Comment, other term ...
Page 82 - General Information on Explosion Protektion; The permitted ambient temperature range is -40°C
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance ATEX and IECex Certifications - Excerpt from the Instruction Manual page 82 of 85 V1.3 9 ATEX and IECex Certifications - Excerpt from the Instruction Manual 9.1 Preface This excerpt from the instruction manual does only ...
Page 83 - General requirements
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance ATEX and IECex Certifications - Excerpt from the Instruction Manual V1.31 page 83 of 85 9.4 General requirements a) If the notes stated in this excerpt are not observed or in case of inappropriate handling of the device,...
Page 84 - Icing is not permitted!; Maintenance and repair; Definition of terms according to IEC 60079-17:; Maintenance
Softing Linking Device – Manual for Configuration, Installation and Maintenance page 84 of 85 V1.3 k) To circuits of Zone 2 only such equipment may be connected that is suitable for operation in this zone and has been certified accordingly (suitable documents have been provided). l) The devices have...