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Control Techniques M700 Drive - HMI

This document discusses how to communicate between a Weintek HMI and a Control Techniques Unidrive M700 drive via the drive's built-in Ethernet module. It provides details on setting up communication in the HMI using a Modbus TCP/IP driver and accessing drive parameters through their addresses. Specific examples are given for reading the drive's acceleration rate parameter. The end result allows an HMI to monitor and control parameters of a single drive or multiple drives.

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Control Techniques M700 Drive - HMI

This document discusses how to communicate between a Weintek HMI and a Control Techniques Unidrive M700 drive via the drive's built-in Ethernet module. It provides details on setting up communication in the HMI using a Modbus TCP/IP driver and accessing drive parameters through their addresses. Specific examples are given for reading the drive's acceleration rate parameter. The end result allows an HMI to monitor and control parameters of a single drive or multiple drives.

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Weintek HMI to Control Techniques Unidrive M700 Drive

Weintek HMI to Control Techniques M700 Drive via built-in


Ethernet Module

Introduction: This paper discusses how to communicate between Weintek cMT3090


and a Control Techniques Unidrive M700 drive via its built-in Ethernet module. M700
drive supports Modbus TCP/IP, a well-known Ethernet communication standard.
Weintek Lab released a driver “Control Techniques SI-Ethernet Modbus TCP/IP” in
Easybuilder pro version 6.00.01.199, mapping the drive parameters to Modbus
addresses. Therefore, an automation engineer doesn’t need to choose the Modbus
function code and calculate its start register address.

Goal: The goal of this document is to introduce how to correctly access the M700 drive’s
parameters via a driver “Control Techniques SI-Ethernet Modbus TCP/IP,” and provide a
template to let HMI programmers know how to establish common drive parameters
(Menu 0) in Easybuilder pro.

Equipment:

1. Weintek HMI cMT3090


2. Control Techniques M700 drive

Details of the Programming (HMI Side): Open a new project and choose the HMI model
cMT3090. To get the HMI talking to the M700 drive, go to HOME on the top of the menu
and then click on System Parameters button.

After you get into System Parameters, you can add M700 drive to the communications
scheme. The screen shot shows you the communication setup in the HMI for the drive.
What you need to do is click on the Settings button (to the right of the IP setting area).
Enter your drive IP address and select the same Address mode corresponding to
Modbus Register Addressing Mode 4.15.013 you chose in CT software to the
communications dialog box.
Weintek HMI to Control Techniques Unidrive M700 Drive

According to the M700 drive user manual, if you want to access a parameter number
above 99, you have to switch “Modbus Register Addressing Mode (S.15.013)” to the
modified addressing mode in CT software.

Make sure what Modbus Register Addressing Mode you should use. Here is the table to
show you the scope of these two modes.

value Text Menu Range Parameter Range


0 Standard mm<=162 ppp <=99
1 Modified mm <=63 ppp <= 255

Now we can create objects to make HMI read or write parameters from the drive. This
driver allows you to enter parameters as their addresses, like what you are operating on
the drive’s keypad or PC Tools application.

This table shows the address of the drive. The notation SSS.MM.PPP is used to access
these parameters where SSS is the slot number, MM is the menu number, and PPP is
the parameter number. For example, to access minimum speed of the drive, its
parameter appears in drive Menu 1 and it is referred to as 01.007. The drive is in slot 0.
Therefore, the full address is 001.01.007.
Weintek HMI to Control Techniques Unidrive M700 Drive

Device Address Format range Easybuider Size


type format data format
BIT SSS.MM.PPP SSS:0-255, MM:0-99,PPP:0-999 Bit object 1-bit
BYTE SSS.MM.PPP SSS:0-255, MM:0-99,PPP:0-999 16-bit 8-bit
WORD SSS.MM.PPP SSS:0-255, MM:0-99,PPP:0-999 16-bit 16-bit
DWORD SSS.MM.PPP SSS:0-255, MM:0-99,PPP:0-999 32-bit 32-bit

I recommended defining the parameter in Address Tag Library before starting to create
objects. It not only avoids accidental reuse of addresses but also improves project
readability. Let me show you how to build and use Address Tag Library.

1. Click [Project] » [Address] on the toolbar and the [Address Tag Library] dialog
box appears.

2. Click [New] button to add a parameter.

3. According to the M700 parameter reference guide for how to access


“Acceleration Rate 1” parameter, enter the parameter 00.02.011 to the Read
address box and name this tag. Type is 32 bit, so you know you should choose
“DWORD” for its device type and 32-bit signed for Data format. Click [OK] button
to finish this setting.
Weintek HMI to Control Techniques Unidrive M700 Drive

This table from the M700 parameter reference guide demonstrates the
information about Acceleration Rate 1.

The Screen Shot of the Final Address Tag Library


Weintek HMI to Control Techniques Unidrive M700 Drive

Now you can create an object, click the Numeric object.

1. Go to Settings under the general tab.

2. Enable “User-defined tag” check box and then click on [Device type]. The tag list
dialog box will appear. Choose Acceleration Rate 1.
Weintek HMI to Control Techniques Unidrive M700 Drive

3. Under the Format tab, you should enter 3 to the Right of decimal Pt according to
decimal place of this parameter. Click [OK] button to finish setting up this object.
Weintek HMI to Control Techniques Unidrive M700 Drive

Screen Shot of the Final Project: an operator can immediately monitor the status of a
drive or multiple drives and control drives via a HMI.

Reference Link:
Weintek Labs website: http://www.weintek.com
Control Techniques Unidrive M700 Drive User Guide:
http://acim.nidec.com/drives/control-techniques/products/ac-drives/unidrive-
m/unidrive-m700

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