Did you know that Siemens BW500 can be setup on an EthernetIP network?
First, be sure that your BW500 is configured to show rate, load, speed and totals.
Assuming that you are somewhat familiar with the Siemens BW500 and Allen Bradley configuration software, using Ethernet IP is straightforward.
Ensure that the BW500 has an Ethernet IP Smartlinx card installed.
If it doesn’t, first power down the BW500, loosen the six screws and open the lid.
Insert the card into the BW500’s Smartlinx port.
Push the card onto the 34 pin connector and secure the card with the two supplied screws
Set all of the dip switches on the card to the “off” position.
Using a standard Ethernet cable plug one end into the SmartLinx card and the other into your laptop’s ethernet port.
At this point you could connect the BW500 directly to your local area network but for this example we will setup the network settings locally.
Power up the BW500 and check that the LED’s on the Smartlinx card are illuminated or flashing.
This confirms that the board was installed correctly.
Close the lid of the BW500 and tighten the six screws.
Next, we need to configure the network settings for the Ethernet IP Smartlinx card.
For this we are going to use Ipconfig. This can be downloaded from the Siemens service and support website.
After downloading Ipconfig, simply run the installer to setup the IPconfig tool.
Once installed, run the Ipconfig tool to configure the network settings for the Ethernet IP Smartlinx card.
Notice that the Smartlinx card has appeared with an IP address of 0.0.0.0. This is your new device.
Double click on the device to open the network settings window.
Enter the desired network settings for your application. For this example, we are going to use: IP address 192.168.0.50, Gateway 192.168.0.1
Once you have entered the values click on "set".
Click on the "scan" button in the main window to see the new settings.
Your EthernetIP Smartlinx card is now setup and ready to use.
Open RSLOGIX 5000 and go the file "open".
Navigate to the location on your PC where you can save the sample project.
Open the sample project and navigate to "IO configuration and BW500". Click on the "BW500".
Enter the same IP address that you've entered in the IP Configuration tool.
Set the input to 34 words and the output to 19 words, and then click "ok".
Download the configuration to your PLC.
With the PLC in Run, navigate to the “Main Program” folder “Program Tags”.
View the process values coming back from the BW500
Compare the process values with the BW500 display to confirm that everything is working correctly;
Many processes will require the BW500 totalizers to be reset via communications.
Ensure P799 on the BW500 is set to “1” for “remote” communications enabled.
You can do this by pushing the “PAR” button on the BW500 two times until the display shows “View/Edit Parameter”.
Enter 799 from the keypad of the BW500 and push the enter key.
If the value of P799 does not equal “1” for “Remote” then push the “Enter key” on the BW500 keypad
to change the character on the display in the top right hand corner from a “V” to an “E”.
Enter “1” and then push the “Enter“ key.
Push the “Run” key to put the BW500 back in the run mode.
In the “Program Tags” window set “RESET_T1” to “1” to clear the totalizer.
Read the “Total 1” from the “Program Tags” list to ensure the value has reset.
To reset Totalizer 2 simply set “RESET_T2” to “1” to clear the Totalizer
This concludes setting up the Siemens BW500 using an EthernetIP network.