Power generation, water, and pulp & paper plants often have process points that are added after the initial plant build. Sometimes the DCS has run out of I/O points or spare twisted pair doesn’t exist. Many plants have process points that are added after the initial plant build. Sometimes the DCS has run out of I/O points or spare twisted pair doesn’t exist.
When such a requirement exists, the NCS Net Concentrator System remote I/O product simplifies the task of gathering signals scattered through multiple processing units or locations. The NCS is Class I Div 2/Zone 2 approved and accepts a wide range of inputs including RTD, TC, Ohms, Potentiometer, mV, mA and Volts. Each NCS remote I/O station can accept up to 128 I/O points. It supports RS-485 MODBUS RTU so up to 32 NCS systems without repeaters can be multi-dropped on one twisted pair and brought back to a MODBUS host monitoring system. The easy to configure NCS has 500V of channel-to-channel isolation and has an ambient operating temperature specification of -40 to 85C (-40 to 185F).
Key Attributes:
- The wide range of I/O types and number of points
- Class I Div 2/Zone 2 approval
- MODBUS RTU support
