Presentation of CANopen Devices

Overview

Devices that you can connect to a CANopen bus and that can be configured in Control Expert are grouped according to their family:

CANopen Device Import

Only devices from the Hardware Catalog can be used with Control Expert.

To add a CANopen device in the Hardware Catalog, you have to:

NOTE: The Hardware Catalog in Control Expert, is an overview in read mode only of the Hardware Catalog Manager.

CANopen Catalog Compatibility Rules

NOTE: Unity Pro is the former name of Control Expert for version 13.1 or earlier.

The following elements in the catalog are supported on Modicon M580:

All existing Schneider Electric CANopen devices
Modules created with Unity Pro ≥ V11.1
Modules created with Unity Pro < V11.1
Specific functions created on old device with Unity Pro < V11.1
Specific functions created on existing Schneider Electric devices with Unity Pro < V11.1

The Hardware Catalog can contain devices created with Unity Pro < V11.1. To update the catalog, you have to:

Import the *cpx file created with the previous Control Expert version in the Hardware Catalog Manager
Open a *.sta file created with the previous Control Expert version.

CANopen Device Configuration

To configure the initial parameters of CANopen devices, you can use:

Configuration depends on the type of CANopen devices.

NOTE: Before configuring a device, select the function when available.