Users have long appreciated Beckhoff's EtherCAT Terminals for their excellent performance, modular scalability, and user-friendliness. The entire portfolio has received a technological upgrade with the ED series: modernized design, tool-free assembly, and app-based diagnostics make signal acquisition more efficient than ever. Existing series remain fully compatible: the user-friendly ED series sets a standard for the future.
Product features
- future-proof platform allows easy implementation with new signals and functions
- modernized and cost-efficient portfolio that assures backward compatibility
- push-in wiring connection speeds up installation and simplifies handling
- consistent form factor facilitates setup, maintenance, and diagnostics
- overview in the control cabinet via uniformly arranged LEDs
- app-based diagnostics reduce downtime
- status monitoring and fault diagnosis via app
- DMC code on front of terminal ensures fast product identification and traceability
- fast and familiar EtherCAT communication down to the last terminal
Benefits for your machine designs
- future-proof investment protection thanks to flexible integration options
- compatibility with existing EtherCAT Terminals for flexible usage
- faster installation, commissioning, and maintenance thanks to simplified handling
- increased availability through simplified maintenance and minimized downtimes
- simple terminal traceability for quality assurance and spare parts management
- I/O system can be uniquely adapted to a wide range of machine concepts
- high scalability according to signal type, number of channels, resolution, and functionality
- flexible integration of other fieldbus systems through bus coupler and terminals
- very user-friendly thanks to quick and easy wiring
- wiring connections can be directly plugged into the terminal
- high productivity and quality with fast reactions to process events
- reduce system costs without compromising on performance
Products
EK/EC1xxx, BK1xx0 | EtherCAT Coupler
The EtherCAT Couplers are the link between the EtherCAT protocol at fieldbus level and the EtherCAT Terminals.
EL/ED1xxx | Digital input
The EL/ED1xxx EtherCAT Terminals enable the acquisition of binary signals from the process level.
EL/ED2xxx | Digital output
The EL/ED2xxx EtherCAT Terminals generate binary signals and forward them to the process level.
EL/ED3xxx | Analog input
The EL/ED3xxx EtherCAT Terminals process analog input signals for voltage, current, temperature and other measured variables.
EL/ED4xxx | Analog output
The EL/ED4xxx EtherCAT Terminals output analog signals with the levels 0 to 10 V, ±10 V, 0 to 20 mA and 4 to 20 mA.
EL/ED5xxx | Position measurement
The EL/ED5xxx EtherCAT Terminals are intended for the evaluation of complex signals from absolute and incremental encoders.
EL/ED6xxx | Communication
With the EL/ED6xxx EtherCAT Terminals, terminal stations become a universal gateway between different systems.
EL/ED/ELM7xxx | Compact drive technology
The EtherCAT Terminals from the EL/ED7xxx and ELM7xxx series enable the direct connection of various drive technologies.
EL/EDxxxx | Multi-functional
The multi-functional EtherCAT Terminals combine the acquisition of digital and analog input and output signals.
EL/ED9xxx | System
The EL/ED9xxx EtherCAT Terminals complete the I/O system with functions such as power supply, fusing and filtering.