Industrial PC series C65xx

The C65xx Industrial PC series is designed for space-saving installation in control cabinets. The Industrial PCs of this series and a Beckhoff Control Panel with DVI and USB connection as operating unit make an ideal combination, representing a powerful platform for machine construction and plant engineering applications, for example with the TwinCAT automation software under Windows CE, Windows XP Professional or Windows Embedded Standard.

The C65xx Industrial PC series is designed to be installed in control cabinets or in the rear panel of a control or console housing. The heat sink of the IPC is thereby fed to the outside through a suitable cut-out in the panel of the control cabinet. In this way, the power dissipation of the processor and chipset is given off directly to the surroundings. Integrated seals provide for an IP 67 closure. This enables high thermal stability and at the same time fanless operation. C65xx Industrial PCs can be constructed completely without rotating parts. In particular when installed in a control housing and in combination with a Beckhoff Control Panel and TwinCAT automation software, the system becomes a powerful PLC and Motion Control system.

The compact housing is equipped with a Beckhoff 3½-inch motherboard for Intel® Core™ Duo 2.0 GHz or Core™2 Duo 2.16 GHz. All of the PC’s connectors are located on the top side of the housing. The PC’s heat sink is installed externally at the rear panel of the console housing or the control cabinet wall and dissipates heat to the surroundings. The IPC circuitry is protected inside by a sheet-steel back cover. The C65xx series PCs are supplied with an integrated power supply unit with 24 V DC input voltage, optionally with integrated uninterruptible power supply (UPS). A battery pack can be connected externally and installed on a DIN rail close to the PC. The PC is cooled by means of cooling fins, enabling operation at ambient temperatures of up to 45 °C. The basic C6515 configuration features a flash disk, thereby creating a PC without moving parts. It has a free Mini PCI slot that can be used for NOVRAM modules for fail-safe storage of process data. Mini PCI fieldbus cards or a further Ethernet card can be used with the C6525.

Industrial PCs of this series and Beckhoff Control Panels as operating units make an ideal combination and offer a high-performance control platform for machine construction and plant engineering applications, particularly in conjunction with the TwinCAT automation software under Windows CE, Windows XP Professional or Windows Embedded Standard. Due to their two independent Ethernet interfaces the C6515 and C6525 Industrial PCs are ideally suited as compact central processing units for an EtherCAT control system. While the 100 Mbit Ethernet port offers optimum performance for all EtherCAT control tasks, a Gigabit port is available for connecting the higher-level network.

The C6525 enables the installation of two hard disks, which can be mirrored using the on-board SATA RAID 1 controller with Intel® matrix storage technology. If one of the hard disks fails, the system continues to run. The faulty hard disk can be replaced and mirrored during operation.