Expert User Interface
Expert, the Tritex II user interface software, provides you with a simple way to select all aspects of configuration and control required to set up and operate a Tritex II actuator. Easy-to-use tabbed pages provide access to input all of the parameters necessary to successfully configure your motion application. 'Application' files give you a convenient way to store and redistribute configurations amongst multiple computers, and 'Drive' files allow the same configuration to be distributed to multiple Tritex II actuators. Motion setup, homing, teach mode, tuning parameters, jogging, I/O configuration, and local control are all accomplished with ease using Expert software.
Protocol Options
The standard communication protocol for Tritex is an RS485 connection using Modbus RTU. The Modbus protocol provides a simple and robust method to connect industrial electronic devices on the same network. The Expert software acts as a Modbus Master and the Tritex II acts as the Slave device, only responding to requests commanded from the software. The Expert software allows full access to commissioning, configuring, monitoring and controlling the Tritex II.
In addition to Modbus RTU communications, the following protocol options are available by selecting communication option boards. Exlar requires initial commissioning of a Tritex II actuator to be performed with the Modbus protocol.
Modbus TCP
Modbus TCP couples Modbus communication structure from Modbus RTU with EtherNet connectivity. The Modbus TCP option is fully supported by the Expert software and offers seamless use for commissioning, configuring, monitoring and controlling the Tritex II. A Modbus mapping table allows you to map all of the parameters you wish read and modify into a register bank of up to 100 registers. This will allow a PLC program to perform a single read operation and a single write operation to all the parameters.
To maintain standard connectivity, we offer the EtherNet connection through a sealed M12 connector.
EtherNet/IP
EtherNet/IP allows you to change, monitor and control the Tritex II through implicit or explicit messaging initiated from your Rockwell PLC. Tritex parameters are set up through the Expert software using a Tritex II parameter to EtherNet/IP parameter mapping table. Up to 100 input and 100 output 16 bit registers can be mapped to Tritex II parameters.
To maintain standard connectivity, we offer the EtherNet/IP connection through a sealed M12 connector.
CANopen
The Tritex II implementation of CANopen follows the DS402 device profile for motion control distributed through CAN in Automation (CiA). CANopen protocol specifies which identifier is used for predefined purposes.
ProfiNet IO
ProfiNet IO allows you to change, monitor and control the Tritex II from your Siemens PLC. Tritex parameters are set up through the Expert software using a Tritex II parameter to PROFINET IO parameter mapping table. Up to 100 input and 100 output, 16 bit registers can be mapped to Tritex II parameters. Connection through sealed M12 connector.
HART
The HART Protocol is the global standard for sending and receiving digital information across analog wires between smart devices and the control or monitoring system.
Motion Setup Screen
Motion Setup
Within the Expert software, Exlar provides several system configurations for various applications. These can serve as your configuration, or as a starting point for your configuration. Alternatively, you can begin from scratch selecting configuration details specific to your application.
Easy selection of move conditions, distance, speed and acceleration are shown in the setup screen lower left.
You can configure a move to position, move to switch, or move to force motion at the click of a button. The Tritex II products offer absolute and incremental motion, as well as moves ending on a condition such as a specific force or torque being reached, or an input being triggered by a proximity switch.
Control Screen
Control Page
The Expert control page gives you the ability to operate or initiate all motion functions from one single, simple screen. This screen provides you very easy system start-up and testing without all the inconvenience of machine wiring.
The control page offers the capability to enable and disable the drive and perform fast and slow jogs. This gives you the ability to verify motion before needing any I/O wiring.
Monitor Page
All input functions can be monitored and activated from the Expert monitor page, and all output functions can be monitored. These functions can be monitored and controlled, even if they are not programmed as the function of any particular hardware input or output. Information on critical fault and status data is available as a separate page, or as a fixed window on the bottom of each page of the software.
Configuring I/O Screen
Configuring I/O
Configuring I/O points to one of over 40 available input or output functions couldn’t be easier. A pull down menu adjacent to each I/O point allows all I/O to be set up in minutes.
Inputs can be configured to be maintained, or momentary, depending on the application requirements.
Input and output logic can also be inverted with a simple click.
Homing
The Tritex II homing setup is simple to use. It allows you to home to an input, by using a proximity or limit switch, or allows homing to a specific force or torque.
Homing to a force or torque is ideal for setting up applications that require motion referenced to a hard stop, like the closed position of a valve, or the final position of a press.
Teach Mode Screen
Teach Mode
To provide the easiest motion set up possible, Tritex II products offer ‘Teach mode.’ In this mode, you can jog the actuator to the desired position, and activate an input, or click a button in the Expert software and the current position of the actuator becomes the defined distance or absolute position associated with a particular move command.
Scope
The Expert Software includes a 4 channel digital oscilloscope feature. The user can select up to 4 Tritex drive parameters to be monitored simultaneously.
For high speed requirements the data can be captured in the drive’s memory at an adjustable rate down to 100 micro sec, then uploaded for plotting. The plots can be saved or printed and the captured data can be saved as a comma separated file for further analysis with Excel.
Expert Software
Expert software provides you ease in selecting all aspects of configuration and control required for set up and operation of a Tritex or Tritex II actuator and the EXP-24 Positioner. V3.5.3.7 provides new screen navigation and a Modbus TCP option.
