Addressing

Overview

The TM5 backplane of bus bases, which holds the individual I/O modules together, is auto-addressing. It is usually not necessary to set the address setting numbers.

However, in certain cases, it may be necessary to define specific slices or potential groups at fixed addresses, regardless of the preceding modules in the backplane. For this purpose, there are bus bases with rotary switches which allow you to set the address of an individual slice. The subsequent slices refer to this offset and are again automatically addressed from this point forward.

NOTE: Manual address setting is not supported with TM5NS31 and TM5NEIP1 fieldbus interfaces. In addition, manual address setting is not supported by EcoStruxure Machine Expert - Safety. Therefore, bus bases with rotary switches are unnecessary. However, if the fieldbus interfaces are used, the address setting of the switches must be 0. For information on the manual address setting for non-safety related TM5 slices, refer to Addressing