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News Release from: IDEC Electronics | Subject: FC4A-J8C1
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2007
Multiple channel analogue modules
Following on from the launch of the IDEC PLC Pentra range, IDEC have introduced two new analogue modules compatible with the MicroSmart PLC family
Following on from the launch of the IDEC PLC Pentra range, IDEC have introduced two new analogue modules These modules are also compatible with the MicroSmart PLC family
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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IDEC Analogue Modules
Following the recent launch of the higher density analogue modules for the IDEC PLC Pentra and MicroSmart range, IDEC have also upgraded the original 2 and 3 channel analogue and thermocouple modules
The main improvement is module density.
With only two channels available on the earlier MicroSmart analogues this has been significantly improved to eight for the FC4A-J8C1 resulting in a considerable reduction in cost per channel.
The FC4A-J8C1 has 16 bit resolution, voltage and current input and with a system transfer time of only 6ms per channel, which when coupled with the speed of the Pentra CPU (0.056 microsecs per basic instruction) means that high speed analogue readings are achievable.
A two channel voltage/current output module has also been introduced, again with 16 bit resolution.
This has a transfer time of only 1ms per channel.
The introduction of these modules has ensured that a lower cost analogue capability is now a feature of the IDEC MicroSmart and Pentra PLC ranges at a performance comparable with any of the competition.
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