Profibus PA Boxes

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John

What type of splitter boxes / junction boxes is recommended for use in Profibus PA cabling. The box needs to be poly carbonate and needs to be an 8 way box. The area is a safe area and we will require a terminating resistor in the box. The Link module we are using is Siemens IM153 6ES7153-2BA82-0XB0 and the Segment Coupler we are using is Siemens 6ES7157-0AC83-0XA0. There is a combination of 2 wire and 4 wire instruments on each bus.

I am finding it very hard to get an answer on this.

Thanks in advance
 
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Daniel Chartier

Hello;

Since Profibus-PA and Fieldbus Foundation physical layers are for all purposes identical (based on the FISCO standard), we have found that line equipment from FF manufactures work very well in our PA networks.
In our past projects we have mainly used Megablock Wiring Hubs in 4-way and 8-way configurations, also using their external terminators. This gave us enough flexibility to setup any number of PA slave drops on each coupler, from 4 to 16, using the hubs in different combinations.
You can look up the Megablock line on the MTL website, mtl-inst.com.

Hope this helps,
Daniel Chartier
 
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