EtherCat Cabling

    Dec. 19, 2008
    EtherCat is an Ethernet-based industrial fieldbus optimized for motion applications. It seems to be gaining some traction lately. Beckhoff is the “champion” of this network, and it recently released two new modules for fiber-optic cabling — the EK1501 EtherCat Coupler and EK1521 junction terminal.
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    Fiber optic cabling allows long distance connection up to 2 km (1.24 miles).

    The EtherCat I/O Terminal system supports all common wiring topology methodologies: line, ring, tree and star. Using standard Ethernet cabling (100BASE-TX), the maximum distance between two EtherCat I/O stations is 100 m (328 feet).

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