CTI 2515-A 100-Watt AC/DC Power Supply with Redundancy Support

The 2515-A is a 120/240VAC/125VDC power supply for CTI 2500 Series® and Simatic® 505 PLCs. The 2515 provides up to 100 watts of power for use by the CPU and I/O modules.

Features

New flyback design with fewer components for better long-term reliability

Higher efficiency for reduced energy consumption and cooler operating temperature

Support of operation in redundancy mode when using 2500-R11-A bases

Replaces Siemens® 505-6660. 505-6660-A, and 505-6660-B

Input voltage 90-240VAC or 90-125VDC

Automatic voltage switching between 120VAC and 240VAC

47-63 Hz single phase input power

Up to 100 watts @ +5VDC to power the PLC CPU and I/O modules

Cost-Effective Solutions

Recent introductions of two Advanced Function Modules —

an Ethernet Communications Coprocessor (the ECC1), and a

general purpose Application Coprocessor (the ACP1) provide

new options  for cost-effective and minimally disruptive

process control solutions.

The ECC1 provides sub-second responses to even a large

number of HMI workstations. It has been used

numerous times to improve HMI/SCADA response

rates and in support of HMI/SCADA migrations.

Because it communicates with its host processor

over a high-speed Ethernet link instead of the

special function I/O interface, items in the data

cache can be kept current, even when the number

of cached items is large, and the user-friendly

configuration interface makes implementation fast

and simple.  Other ECC1 features allow easy

configuration of state-of-change peer-to-peer

communications between 2500 Series Systems,

requiring no programming in the PLC and

minimizing the use of network bandwidth.

The ACP1 is programmed with CTI’s

new open standards IEC61131

2515-A

compliant development system.  It

allows users to add languages, functions

and memory organization features to existing CTI

2500 Series®  and Simatic 505®  controllers and is

able to exchange data between the RLL program

on the host PLC and the IEC61131 programs.

Embedded client/server protocols perform data

transfers based on configuration tables without the

need for any additional logic in the PLC or ACP1

application program.  It has been used to build

systems using 2500 Series®  Processors to

operate dozens of variable speed drives

connected over Ethernet/IP and Modbus-TCP to

control material movement in the factory.  The

unique capabilities of Function Block Diagram

(FBD) programming in the ACP1 allowed the user

to develop a single function block which controlled

all the drives in the system.  Development and

maintenance of the software were dramatically simplified

compared to doing the same project in RLL.