Hello and thank you for your question! This posting originally addressed hardware problems with the first SAFEX-C.1* samples. In your case it can be a software issue or just a handling problem. Please check, whether your PC detects a COM port at the moment when you connect the powered SAFEX-C controller or you power it while it is already connected. You should see something like this on your desktop . ctrlX SAFETY Engineering cannot detect automatically which COM port is used for your SAFEX-C.1* device. This means for every device you have to set the COM port (shown above) inside the "Connection Settings" below. In my case it is COM10:     If nothing of the aforementioned steps help, then please check the USB Serial Device driver. We hope this helps, Best regards Your ctrlX SAFETY Team ... View more

Hello Matthias, in the meantime I have more information about your case. You tried to add EL6910, EL6930, EL1904, EL2904 to an EtherCAT configuration for ctrlX CORE / ctrlX PLC using ctrlX I/O Engineering. Our safety controls ctrlX SAFETY SAFEX-C.12 / SAFEX-C.15 already provide numerous inputs / outputs and are able to act as a FSoE-Master and FSoE-Slave. Nevertheless, FSoE Slaves like EL1904, EL2904, .. can be used in combination with them. Support of EL69xx is currently not planned. Reason: The TwinSafe-Engineering uses non-generic dialogs and a specific communicaton interface to the EL69xx and the efforts are not balanced by the value for our customers, especially due to the availablility of our SAFEX-C.1* compact safety controllers that provide most functionality in terms of functional safety and connectivity ( EtherCAT/FSoE Automation bus and safe cross-communication, Profinet/ProfiSafe Uplink, simple Safe-Master-to-Master-Communication and integration with our ctrlX DRIVEplus via ctrlX SAFETYlink  ). In addition they provide further advantages of extremely short reaction times and an unbeaten low footprint in the cabinet. We strongly recommend to use ctrlX SAFETY SAFEX-C.12 or SAFEX-C.15 depending on the number of I/Os or Uplink functionality. For larger applications several SAFEX-C controllers can be distributed within a single EtherCAT Network using safe cross-communication between the SAFEX-C controllers. For further information post in the ctrlX SAFETY subforum or contact your local Bosch Rexroth representative Best regards Your ctrlX AUTOMATION & ctrlX SAFETY Team ... View more