Modbus Examples?

Anyone have any examples of controlling a VFD with modbus through Clasicladder?

I need to figure out how to run 8 Lenze AC Tech SF230Y drives. I would like to start/stop (all 8 together), set the speed, and monitor for faults to stop the machine if there is a problem.

Here is a copy of the communication manual for the drives.


Or would it be better to do this another way?

I think what I need the help with the most at this point is how to control what is written to the registers that I need to control when I need to control them.

Such as I need to write a 0 to register 48 of each drive to enable control of them.
Then register 1 needs to have certain bits changed to control the drives, (start,stop,lock,...)
Then to set the speed I need to write the speed in Hz(x10) to register 40 I'd write 3000 (for 300Hz)

Part of my problem is I don't really understand how this is supposed to work.
So are these registers constantly being read/written to, and I need to change what is being written in order to control the drive?

How do I make classic ladder change the values of the variables I set to use to control what the modbus is writing to the registers?

I need to find a modbus for morons tutorial.

I took a cursory look at it but I wasn't sure if it would work for multiple drives. I thought that using classic ladder might make using the multiple drives simpler. But since i don't know the first thing about Classicladder (or at least I didn't before starting on this) how should I know..

This is for a machine at work, when I have time to fiddle and study it, is on weekends and after work, but I don't have access to the machine then, When I am at work and have access to the machine I don't have time to futz with it. It makes making any real progress slow.

Hi Todd.
Are using Modbus communication on serial line or TCP/IP ?
In any case (I prefer to use TCP/IP) I think that into the Classic Ladder configuration you can configure the communication
parameters (which registers to read and wich registers to write) so you should be able to do what you want to do.
I've tried to communicate with 2 slaves on TCP/IP and Modbus seems to work fine.
The Classic Ladder configuration for the Modbus communication create a sort of I/O scanning on the Modbus line.
As I can see there are 16 available connections instance so you have 8 slaves X ( 1 read instance + 1 write instance) = 16 instances .
That means that you will raise the maximum available communication instances .
So you have to pack all the registers you have to write to a single slave (same for the read registers).

I know that there is an HAL component that maybe can fit your application (but I do not know much about it) and you can find some
informations HERE .

bigalex

If it is infact limited to only 16, then this won't work for me. I need to write to one reg on each drive to enable them, then read another one to keep them enabled, then write to a 3rd for start/stop, and a 4th yet to control the speed. That makes 32

I had been looking at that a little, but I was not able to figure out how to install it from the info given on that page.
Would Modbus to Hal have to be installid on Master, or can it be used with 2.52?

Would Modbus to Hal have to be installid on Master, or can it be used with 2.52?

According to the wiki, the code is in the master
Yep
It is in ../linuxcnc-dev/src/hal/user_comps/mb2hal
but does not exist in 2.5.2