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Related Link::: I-7188EX-MTCP Redundancy System: M M-7000 I/O

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FAQ-041: How to connect PC / HMI to a Redundancy system with a single IP address ?

Two Wincon-8347/8747 & Wincon-8346/8746 can setup as one redundancy system. The
PC / HMI / SCADA software can connect to one I-7188EX-MTCP to convert Modbus
TCP/IP protocol to become Modbus RTU RS-485 protocol and then to these two
redundancy controllers as below figures. Then the HMI software running on PC can use
only one target IP address (7188EX-MTCP's IP) to link to the redundancy system.

Related link:

I-7188EX-MTCP : http://www.icpdas.com/products/PAC/i-7188_7186/Modbus_PAC.htm
Redundancy system : http://www.icpdas.com/faq/isagraf/036.htm
NS-205 / NS-208 : http://www.icpdas.com/products/Switch/industrial/ethernet_switch.htm
M-7000 I/O : http://www.icpdas.com/products/Remote_IO/m-7000/m-7000_list.htm

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Figure 2:

The redundancy system supports not only I-87K I/O in I-87K4/5/8/9 base, but also M-7000
series I/O modules. http://www.icpdas.com/products/Remote_IO/m-7000/m-7000_list.htm

Two redundancy Wincon-8x47 / Wincon-8x46 can connect their LAN1 to LAN1 and also
LAN2 to LAN2. If one cable is damaged, the other one still works.
If you have installed i-7188EX-MTCP in this example, please set a fixed IP to it by the
“7188xw.exe” utility. (Power off 7188EX-MTCP, short its “INIT*” pin to “GND” , power it up,
connecting one RS232 cable from i-7188EX-MTCP ‘s COM1 to PC ‘s COM1, PC running
“7188xw.exe”, key-in, for ex, “ip=10.0.0.107” to set ip address and “mask=255.255.255.0” to set
mask address)

After i-7188EX-MTCP ’s IP and Mask is well set. Please run “Modbus utility” to configure this i-
7188EX-MTCP to become a Modbus TCP/IP to Modbus RTU Gateway as below steps.

Please set its COM1 as “Debug” mode.


Then please set COM2 to “Modbus/RTU Gateway” , a proper timeout (250 ms), other parameters
as 19200,8,None,1 . then Click on “Set”

In the “System Setting” area, please set this i-7188EX-MTCP ‘s Net-ID to a value not equal to 1,
for example, 100. And “Stations per COM Port as 1” , then click on “Set”.
If it display “Modbus ID (1 ~ 1) ==> COM2” , the configuration is well done.

Note: If i-7188EX-MTCP ‘s COM1 is not set as “Debug” mode in the former page, the setting will
become “Modbus ID (1 ~ 1) ==> COM1” . That is not correct, because here we want it send to
i-7188EX-MTCP ‘ s COM2:RS-485.

Then when this i-7188EX-MTCP receives Modbus TCP/IP protocol to request Net-ID: 1, it will
send this request to its COM2:RS-485 . And then if controller reply, it will reply back to the
Ethernet port.

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