ibaPDA with ABB drives ACS880

or DCS880
via Modbus-TCP
Manual
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Table of Contents
1 About this Manual ........................................................................................... 2
1.1 Target group .................................................................................................. 2
1.2 Notations ....................................................................................................... 2
1.3 Used symbols ................................................................................................ 3
2 System requirements...................................................................................... 4
3 Configuration .................................................................................................. 5
3.1 General.......................................................................................................... 5
3.2 Device configuration ...................................................................................... 7
3.2.1 Drive ..............................................................................................................7
3.2.2 Software ........................................................................................................ 7
3.2.3 Network settings ............................................................................................ 7
3.2.4 Network configuration .................................................................................... 8
3.3 Configuration ibaPDA .................................................................................... 9
3.3.1 Configuration ................................................................................................. 9
3.3.2 Configuring more connections ..................................................................... 11
3.3.3 Defining analog signals ................................................................................ 11
3.3.4 Defining digital signals ................................................................................. 15
3.3.5 Starting the acquisition................................................................................. 16
3.3.6 Scaling signals ............................................................................................. 17
3.3.7 Displaying signals ........................................................................................ 18
3.4 Diagnostics .................................................................................................. 19
3.4.1 Connection diagnostics with PING ............................................................... 19
3.4.2 Checking the connection.............................................................................. 19
3.4.3 Checking the data ........................................................................................ 20
3.4.4 Response times ........................................................................................... 20
4 Appendix ........................................................................................................ 22
4.1 TCP/IP protocol variants .............................................................................. 22
5 Support and contact ..................................................................................... 24

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1 About this Manual

This documentation contains a comprehensive description of the ibaPDA with ABB drive
ACS880 or DCS880 software interface.

1.1 Target group

This manual addresses in particular the qualified professionals who are familiar with
handling electrical and electronic modules as well as communication and measurement
technology. A person is regarded as professional if he/she is capable of assessing safety
and recognizing possible consequences and risks on the basis of his/her specialist
training, knowledge and experience and knowledge of the standard regulations.

1.2 Notations
In this manual, the following notations are used:

Action Notation
Menu command Menu Logic diagram
Calling the menu command Step 1 – Step 2 – Step 3 – Step x
Example:
Select the menu Logic diagram - Add - New function
block.

Keys <Key name>

Example:
<Alt>; <F1>

Press the keys simultaneously <Key name> + <Key name>

Example:
<Alt> + <Ctrl>

Buttons <Key name>

Example:
<OK>; <Cancel>

File names, paths "Filename", "Path"

Example:
"Test.doc"

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1.3 Used symbols

If safety instructions or other notes are used in this manual, they mean:

The non-observance of this safety information may result in an imminent risk of death
or severe injury:
 From an electric shock!
 Due to the improper handling of software products which are coupled to
input and output procedures with control function!

The non-observance of this safety information may result in a potential risk of death or
severe injury!

The non-observance of this safety information may result in a potential risk of injury or
material damage!

Note
A note specifies special requirements or actions to be observed.

Important note
Note if some special features must be observed, for example exceptions from the rule.

Tip
Tip or example as a helpful note or insider tip to make the work a little bit easier.

Other documentation
Reference to additional documentation or further reading.

Example
Configuration and application examples for a better understanding

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2 System requirements
The following system requirements are necessary:
ibaPDA:
 ibaPDA version 6.33.1 or more recent
 ibaPDA base license
 License for ibaPDA-Interface-Modbus-TCP-Client (31.001022)
 Network connection 10/100 Mbit

ABB:
 ACS880 or DCS880 drive
 FENA-11 or FENA-21 communication interface
 Drive Composer version V1.8 or more recent
For further requirements for the used computer hardware and the supported operating
systems, please refer to the ibaPDA documentation.

Note
It is recommended carrying out the TCP/IP and UDP communication on a separate
network segment to exclude a mutual influence by other network components.

Note
When operated on a virtual machine, a dongle with a valid license must be plugged on
the host for each virtual machine. The USB ports used are assigned explicitly to the
respective virtual machines.

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3 Configuration
Note
In the following chapters, all specifications which are described for the usage of drive
ACS880 also apply for the usage of drive DCS880.

3.1 General
The drive parameter data can be read in two different ways:
 Direct access to the parameter via Modbus register numbers.
Modbus register in ibaPDA:
100 x Par. group + Par. number (16-Bit register) or
20000 + 200 x Par. group + 2 x Par. number (32-Bit register).
Thus most of the drive parameters are accessible. Access to parameters with
numbers higher than 99 is not possible.
 Reading the data from „Drive Profile Registers“.
The range of Modbus register numbers smaller than 100 is used in order to read
signals according to „ABB Drive Profiles“.
For „ABB Drive Profile - Enhanced" or „ABB Drive Profile Transparent 16-bit“ the
DATA IN registers are read by Modbus registers 51-65 and the DATA OUT registers
are described by Modbus registers 1-15.
Register setting 1-15 (DATA OUT, Parameter group 53 or 56):
Register address Register data (16-bit)
00001 ABB Drives Profile Control
00002 ABB Drives Profile Reference 1
00003 ABB Drives Profile Reference 2
00004 DATA OUT 1
00005 DATA OUT 2
00006 DATA OUT 3
00007 DATA OUT 4
00008 DATA OUT 5
00009 DATA OUT 6
00010 DATA OUT 7
00011 DATA OUT 8
00012 DATA OUT 9
00013 DATA OUT 10
00014 DATA OUT 11
00015 DATA OUT 12

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Register setting 51-65 (DATA IN, Parameter group 52 or 55):

Register address Register data (16-bit)
00051 ABB Drives Profile Status
00052 ABB Drives Profile Actual 1
00053 ABB Drives Profile Actual 2
00054 DATA IN 1
00055 DATA IN 2
00056 DATA IN 3
00057 DATA IN 4
00058 DATA IN 5
00059 DATA IN 6
00060 DATA IN 7
00061 DATA IN 8
00062 DATA IN 9
00063 DATA IN 10
00064 DATA IN 11
00065 DATA IN 12

Thereby only a maximum of 15 signals per drive can be read, however with the
advantage of a very fast response time (<3 ms).
At first the drive parameter for DATA IN and DATA OUT has to be specified by Drive
Composer.

Other documentation
You will find more detailed information in the „FENA-11/-21 User’s Manual“, chapter
„Modbus-TCP-Communication profiles“.

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3.2 Device configuration

3.2.1 Drive
For testing the access, we have used an ACS880 Democase with Ethernet Adapter
Module FENA 21 on slot 1.

3.2.2 Software
ABB Drive Composer pro v1.8.0.9
ibaPDA v6.35.0

3.2.3 Network settings

Note
Here we use the parameter group “FBA B” (54 f.), because for this test the FENA module
is plugged on slot B.

Settings on the ACS880/DCS880 with Drive Composer:

 IP address of the ACS880: 192.168.50.53
 Protocol/Profile: "Modbus TCP ABB Classic" and "Modbus TCP ABB Enhanced",
respectively; or „Modbus TCP ABB Transparent 16-bit“.
 Parameter group 50 "Fieldbus adapter (FBA)"

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 Parameter group 54 "FBA B settings"

3.2.4 Network configuration

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3.3 Configuration ibaPDA

Other documentation
In this document, we only describe the specific settings for connecting the ACS880. In
the "ibaPDA-Interface-Modbus-TCP-Client" manual, we describe all other parameters.

Important note
Please consider the settings for the TCP/IP protocol version as described in the appendix.

Start the I/O manager and have a look whether the “Modbus TCP client” license is
available and if the “Modbus TCP client” is displayed in the tree structure of the
interface.

3.3.1 Configuration
 Add a module “Modbus Client” to the “Modbus TCP Client” interface.

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 Select the General tab and set the following parameters:

 Default parameters: See „ibaPDA“ manual and „Modbus TCP“ manual.

Specific settings:
All parameters in bold deviate from the default parameters.

 Name, Module No., You can either adopt the default settings or change them
Timebase: according to your demands.
 Swap analog signals: Depending on data type
Yields the right byte sequence in combination with the
ACS880 parameter 54.22 (word order) “HiLo”.
 IP address: IP address of the ACS880
Corresponds to setting in ACS880 parameter 54.04 ff.
 Analog type: Holding registers
 Digital type: Holding registers
 Addresses start at 1: True
(Registers are numbered beginning with 1.)
 Send messages in parallel: False
 Maximum gap between 1
registers:
 No. analog signals: Here, you can set the length of the analog table
(default value 32)
 No. digital signals: Here, you can set the length of the digital table
(default value 32)

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3.3.2 Configuring more connections

If you want to establish connections to more drives, just add more Modbus client modules
to the interface.
 Assign a new module name.
 The module number is incremented automatically.
 Enter the IP address of the drive.
You can establish a maximum of 64 connections with one ibaPDA-Interface-Modbus-
TCP client license. If you want to establish more connections, you have to purchase more
licenses (maximum 4).
Tip
In case you want to read the same parameters on each drive, then simply copy one
module and just adapt the IP address and possibly the module name.
You find the “Use name as prefix” parameter in the module parameters. Using this
parameter, you can distinguish the signals in course of the process. The module name
is put in front of the signal name.

3.3.3 Defining analog signals

 Select the Analog tab and define the following parameters (example):

Description of the columns:

 Name Assign the signal name, here. For a better orientation, you can enter
the parameter number xx.yy and define comment rows.
 Unit: Enter the unit of the measurement value.
 Gain, Offset: The settings depend on the type of access.
Also see Scaling signals, chapter 3.3.6.
 Active: You have to activate the check box in the rows containing valid
parameter settings. Make sure that the check box is disabled in the
comment rows.

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3.3.3.1 Register address for direct access to the drive parameters:

 16-bit register:
Enter the parameter number in the following format:
Register address = Parameter group*100 + Parameter number
Hence,
register 101 equals group 1, parameter 1
register 161 equals group 1, parameter 61
register 1211 equals group 12, parameter 11.
 Data Type: Always enter INT.
 32-bit register:
Enter the parameter number in the following format:
Register address = 20000 + Parameter group*200 + Parameter number*2
Hence,
register 20202 equals group 1, parameter 1
register 20322 equals group 1, parameter 61
register 22422 equals group 12, parameter 11.
 Data Type: Always enter DINT.

3.3.3.2 Register address for access to the ABB Drive Profile Registers
 Essential settings with Drive Composer
 The drive profile is changed to “MB/TCP ABB E” (for ACS880) or “MB/TCP ABB
T16” (for ACS880 or DCS880) via parameter 51.2 or 54.2 (Protocol/Profile)
respectively.

 Depending on the slot of the FENA module, the ABB Drives Profile Registers
DATA IN are configured in the parameter group 52 (FBA A) or parameter group
55 (FBA B) respectively.
 The drive parameters to be read are assigned to the DATA IN registers in
parameter group 52 or 55 respectively.

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 ABB Drive Profile Register setting 51-65:

Register Register data Parameter Parameter

address for FBA A for FBA B
00051 ABB Drives Profile Status - -
00052 ABB Drives Profile Actual 1 - -

00053 ABB Drives Profile Actual 2 - -

00054 DATA IN 1 52.1 55.1
00055 DATA IN 2 52.2 55.2
00056 DATA IN 3 52.3 55.3
00057 DATA IN 4 52.4 55.4
00058 DATA IN 5 52.5 55.5
00059 DATA IN 6 52.6 55.6
00060 DATA IN 7 52.7 55.7
00061 DATA IN 8 52.8 55.8
00062 DATA IN 9 52.9 55.9
00063 DATA IN 10 52.10 55.10
00064 DATA IN 11 52.11 55.11
00065 DATA IN 12 52.12 55.12

Important note
All changes of parameters carried out by Drive Composer will only become effective when
parameter 51.27 or 54.27 are set to “Refresh”.

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Example:
Reading of drive parameters "Motor current" (Parameter 01.07) and "Motor torque"
(Parameter 01.10):
 Register address in ibaPDA: 54-55

 Mapping with Drive Composer:

ibaPDA reads Modbus register address 54 which equals parameter 55.1; this
parameter contains the value of parameter 1.7 "Motor current".

 Result in ibaPDA:

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3.3.4 Defining digital signals

 Select the Digital tab and set the following parameters (example):

Description of the columns:

 Name Assign the signal name, here. For a better orientation, you can enter
the parameter number xx.yy and define comment rows.
 Register: Enter the parameter number as described above.
 Bit no.: Enter the bit number within the control-/status word.
 Active: You have to activate the check box in the rows containing valid
parameter settings. Make sure that the check box is disabled in the
comment rows.

Tip
As an option, you can acquire the control-/status word as 16-bit integer value instead of
digital signals. You can then break down the control-/status word with the virtual module
“16 bit decoder”.

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Tip
You can export the parameters as text file in the Drive Composer (button “Save” with the
target format “Text file (*prn)”).

You can open the resulting text file using an ASCII Editor or MS Excel. You can copy the
symbolic designations of the parameters to ibaPDA with copy and paste.
In case there are many signals, it might be worth converting the Excel file into an ibaPDA
module format. Then, you can import this format into ibaPDA.
You get the ibaPDA module format when exporting a module in the ibaPDA I/O
manager.

3.3.5 Starting the acquisition

With the <Apply> or <OK> button, you start the acquisition by applying the I/O
configuration to the ibaPDA server.
ibaPDA establishes the TCP/IP connection to the ACS880 (Modbus server) and requests
the variables defined in the list of measurement values.
See chapter 3.4. for checking the connection and the received variables.

Note
The received analog values are raw values which might need to be scaled.

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3.3.6 Scaling signals

 Scaling for 16-bit access to drive parameters
The received analog values for the 16-bit access are raw values. If you want to get the
same current values as the values you can see in the Drive Composer, you have to scale
these values.
You can calculate the scaling factors from the ACS880 parameter group 46
"Monitoring/Scaling settings".

The values have to be defined according to the unit; e.g. the 200% speed equals the
value 1500 rpm.

Example for speed values

Go to the Analog tab of the Modbus client module and click on the field in the “Gain”
column on the row “Motor speed used”. By clicking on the button , the scaling dialog
box will be opened. Enter “20000” for X1 and “1500” for Y1 (200.00% equals 1500 rpm).
Activate the “Symmetrical” check box.
When leaving the box, the scaling factor 0.075 will be computed and then entered.

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 Scaling for 32-bit access to drive parameters

For the 32-bit access to the parameters (Register 2xxxx, see chapter 3.3.3) all values
have already been scaled. For getting the physical values, enter the factor 0.01 in the
“Gain” column for all values.

3.3.7 Displaying signals

After having started the acquisition, the signals can be displayed in many different ways:
 as trend graph
 as numerical view
 as graphical objects (only with ibaQPanel license)

As an example, you can select the trend graph by double clicking on the Icon .
The numerical view will be displayed with a double-click on .
Then, you can draw the measured values from the signal tree to the desired view.

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3.4 Diagnostics
3.4.1 Connection diagnostics with PING
PING is a system command with which you can check if a certain communication partner
can be reached in an IP network.
Enter the command “ping” followed by the IP address of the communication partner and
press <ENTER>.
With an existing connection, you receive several replies.

With not existing connection, you receive error messages.

3.4.2 Checking the connection

The connections to the drives are established after having accepted the configuration.
If you want to see the connection list, click on the “Modbus TCP Client” interface in the
tree structure.

Here, you can have a look at the error counters and the response times.

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3.4.3 Checking the data

Click on the Diagnostics tab in the I/O manager data module.
Here, the current analog and digital values are displayed in the tables.

Note
The unscaled raw values are displayed in this table.

3.4.4 Response times

The response times to the variables (drive parameters) essentially depend on the
following values:
 the number of variables
 the number of Modbus TCP messages per sample
The number of messages depends on the distribution of the parameters. You can only
request successive parameters in a message, as the access to non-existent parameters
might result in errors. In case of gaps in the parameter sequence, the access is split into
several messages.
Note
This is why you have to set the value “Maximum gap between registers” in the module
parameters to “1”; see chapter 3.3.1.

Example:
In the following sample project, the drive captures 22 analog values and 32 digital
values. The distribution of the parameters results in 15 messages with an
average response time per cycle of 83 ms.

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Calculation:
We can grossly suppose the following response times:
 per message: approx. 3.3 ms
 per 16-bit value: approx. 1.6 ms
Hence, for 10 successive variables, the response time is approx. 20 ms. For 10 individual
variables, it is approx. 45 ms.
Examples for response times:
Average
Number of Number of
Response
variables messages
time
1 1 5

7 1 15

8 2 20

9 2 22

10 3 27

11 4 32

12 4 33

13 4 35

14 5 40

15 5 42

16 6 47

17 7 52

18 8 57

19 9 62

20 10 67

Response times for access to the ABB Drives Profile Register:

1st line: Direct access to drive parameter: 32 analog values (16-bit)

7 single messages, average response time: 40 ms
2nd line: Access to the ABB Drives Profile Register: 15 analog values (16-bit)
1 message, average response time: 1 ms.

Important note
Since accesses to the drives are always carried out in parallel, these response times are
valid for all drives independent of the number of drives connected.

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4 Appendix

4.1 TCP/IP protocol variants

Restriction:
ibaPDA measurements of automation devices using TCP/IP (SIMATIC S7 - CP443 and
CP343, SIMATIC TDC - CP5100 and CP51M1, or other) sometimes do not work with
cycle times < 200 ms.

Error in ibaPDA:
Sequence error and incomplete telegrams.

Cause:
There are different variants of handling 'Acknowledge' in the TCP/IP protocol:
The standard Winsocket works in accordance with RFC1122 using the "delayed
acknowledge" mechanism. It specifies that the acknowledge is delayed until other
telegrams arrive in order to acknowledge them jointly. If no other telegrams arrive, the
ACK telegram is sent after 200 ms at the latest (depending on the socket).
The data flow is controlled by a "sliding window" (parameter Win=nnnn). The recipient
specifies how many bytes it can receive without sending an acknowledgment.
Some controllers do not accept this response, but instead, wait for an acknowledgment
after each data telegram. If it does not arrive within a certain period of time (200 ms), it
will repeat the telegram and include any new data to be sent, causing an error with the
recipient, because the old one was received correctly.

Remedy:
Either: Switch off "fast acknowledge" on the controller if possible. This, however, can
entail problems, as frequently there are also running connections to other partners.
Or: Switch off "delayed acknowledge" in Windows.
This is set by a parameter in the Windows Registry:
 Under Windows 2000:
Parameter "TcpDelAckTicks": REG_DWORD = 0;
 Under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10,
Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016:
Parameter "TcpAckFrequency": REG_DWORD = 1;
The parameters are absent by default and have to be entered in the path:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Int
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You have to select the correct interface. Which interface is the correct one can be
recognized for example at the currently set IP addresses.

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5 Support and contact

Support
Phone: +49 911 97282-14
Fax: +49 911 97282-33
Email: [email protected]

Note
If you require support, indicate the serial number (iba-S/N) of the product.

Contact
Headquarters
iba AG
Koenigswarterstr. 44
90762 Fuerth
Germany
Phone: +49 911 97282-0
Fax: +49 911 97282-33
Email: [email protected]
Contact: Mr Harald Opel

Regional and worldwide

For contact data of your regional iba office or representative please refer to our web
site
www.iba-ag.com.

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