Industrial PC series C69xx

The C69xx Industrial PC series is designed for 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 XP Embedded or Windows XP Professional.

The compact aluminium housing of the C69xx Industrial PCs is equipped with a 3½-inch motherboard. All PC connections are on one side of the housing. The PC can optionally be equipped with mounting plates on two sides and fastened with screws in the control cabinet. Installation is possible at the rear panel or on the right-hand side panel (see figure).

The C69xx series PCs are supplied with a 24 V DC power supply unit, optionally with integrated uninterruptible power supply (UPS). A battery pack can be connected externally and installed on a DIN rail close to the PC. Cooling fins behind the right-hand side panel enable fanless operation of the PC at temperatures up to 55 °C.

The main difference between the two types of the C69xx Industrial PC series is in their processors and the cooling method. The C6925 with 1 GHz Intel® Celeron® M ULV processor requires no fan. The C6920 with Intel® Core™ Duo or Core™2 Duo has an easily exchangeable fan cartridge on the underside of the housing.

The basic configuration of the C6925 features a flash disk, thereby creating a PC without moving parts. A hard disk can be integrated in the PC as an option. The C69xx features a free Mini PCI slot. The Beckhoff Mini PCI fieldbus cards for PROFIBUS (FC3151), CANopen (FC5151), DeviceNet (FC5251), SERCOS (FC7551), or a further Ethernet card (FC9151) can be used.

Industrial PCs of this series and Beckhoff Control Panels with DVI and USB connection or Ethernet 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 XP Embedded or Windows XP Professional. Due to its two independent Ethernet interfaces, the C69xx is ideally suited as a compact central processing unit 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.