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A solar inverter converts raw solar energy into usable electricity for your home.
What is a USB-to-Serial Converters? Key benefits, application scenarios, and reasons to use one.
What is a Serial Device Server? Key benefits and reasons to use one.
Serial protocols, COM-port, RS-232/422/485 explained
Unmanaged – A switch without management features. It is used when it is necessary to combine several Ethernet devices into a single system. Moxa unmanaged switches are presented in seriesEDS-200, EDS-300 andEDS-2000.
This article shows how to configure the Turbo Ring V2 protocol for a ring topology through the switch’s web interface.
The RS-232 interface provides information exchange between two devices at a distance of up to 15 meters. To overcome this limitation, MOXA offers two solutions: RS-232/422/485 to Ethernet converters or (NPort Series) RS-232 to RS-422/485 converters (TCC Series).
This option requires an MGate protocol converter. You can use the Modbus TCP protocol to communicate with Modbus RTU devices through the gateway. There are many ” Modbus gateways ” available in the automation market that provide Modbus TCP connectivity for Modbus TCP slaves. When the gateway receives a Modbus TCP request, it converts the packet to Modbus RTU and immediately sends it to the Modbus RTU devices.