New bus couplers

The automa­tion spe­cial­ist LÜTZE is expand­ing its LCOS and LOCC-Box series with two new bus cou­plers for PROFINET and Ether­CAT. The two bus cou­plers con­nect the PROFINET bus and Ether­CAT bus to the periph­er­al mod­ules and facil­i­tate sim­ple com­mu­ni­ca­tion at up to 100 Mbit/s in field bus and net­work systems.

The new bus cou­plers com­mu­ni­cate inter­nal­ly via CAN-Open ISO 11898–1. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion with exter­nal LOCC-Box­es on the BUS is con­fig­ured with a 2‑pole design. Up to 64 mod­ules can be installed on the bus cou­plers. In oper­a­tion with exter­nal LOCC-Box­es, up to a max­i­mum of 128 bus cou­plers can be installed. Loads are con­nect­ed via plug­gable 2‑pole spring ter­mi­nals (AWG 24- AWG 12). The para­me­ter­i­za­tion is per­formed using the free LÜTZE Win­dows soft­ware LOCC-Pads.

The sta­tus indi­ca­tions are visu­al­ized by LEDs for “Pow­er”, “Main­te­nance”, “Error” and “BC-Error”. These two new bus cou­plers com­ply with the stan­dards UL 61010, EN 61131–2, EN 55016, EN 61000–4‑2/3/4/5/6, EN 55011, EN60721‑3–3, EN 60068–2‑1–42. The approvals for UL and GL are pending.