LamaPLC: S7-1500 and Metrawatt EM2389 Modbus TCP communication

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Communication via M-Bus, LON, Modbus TCP / BACnet, Modbus RTU, pulse output possible.

• Modbus communication is usually not part of the managed block of the TIA portal, so these modules do not need to be included in the TIA portal (they are not participants in the topology- or network view).
• The communication to the connected switch can even be Profinet (or IE), the point is that the Switch is “visible” from the PLC (it is not necessary to use a managed switch)
• It is important that each unit falls into a class 3 IP address range (the first three identifiers must match, e.g. 192.168.178.nn)
• Both the PLC and the Modbus partner must be accessible with the PING command

metraWattFB: main program for communication metraWattDB: measurements in real format metraWattFB_DB: instant DB from call main prg (automatic generated) metraWDBModbus: row readed data in word format ModbusCommBlockMWatt: communication parameters (IP,…)

• The program should be called from OB1 (it has internal timing)
• When calling FB, “metraWattFB_DB” is the instant DB (recommended only)
• The program does not query all data from Metrawatt (but can be expanded if necessary)
• The Metrawatt modbus register list can be found here (here)
• The program calls up the data slowly, the entire update takes 4 seconds (because that's enough for me). If faster data reading is required, the parameter t#1s in line 2 of “metraWattFB” must be modified.

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