Relevant national and local regulations, for example regarding protective earth connection, must be observed. The RS-485 communication cable must be kept

away from motor and brake resistor cables to avoid coupling of high frequency noise from one cable to another. Normally a distance of 200 mm (8 inches) is

sufficient, but keeping the greatest possible distance between the cables is generally recommended, especially where cables run in parallel over long distances.

When crossing is unavoidable, the RS-485 cable must cross motor and brake resistor cables at an angle of 90 degrees.

6.2 Drive Protocol Overview

The Drive protocol, also referred to as Drive bus or Standard bus, is the GE standard network. It defines an access technique according to the master-slave principle

for communications via a serial bus.

One master and a maximum of 126 slaves can be connected to the bus. The individual slaves are selected by the master via an address character in the telegram.

A slave itself can never transmit without first being requested to do so, and direct message transfer between the individual slaves is not possible. Communications

occur in the half-duplex mode.

The master function cannot be transferred to another node (single-master system).

The physical layer is RS-485, thus utilizing the RS-485 port built into the frequency converter. The Drive protocol supports different telegram formats; a short format

of 8 bytes for process data, and a long format of 16 bytes that also includes a parameter channel. A third telegram format is used for texts.

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