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It doesnt matter that the slaves have the same registers. The master will read the data, and then store it locally at a place at its own choosing. Masters do not use the register model for their own storage; instead they store the received data somewhere in a PLC variable, or output of a...

The Profisafe, CIPsafe, PowerlinkSafety, etc. are an additional layer on top of existing protocols. They implement the requirements for a safety network protocol. They claim to be all underlying network independent, but of course nobody is going to replace its own protocol for that of the...

If a message cannot be completely received by a slave, the slave will not do anything and so not reply. After a while, the master will timeout and (depending on its implementation and settings) do a reply, in the hope that this will work, and if not, a new retry etc. If the maximum number of...

I wouldnt be too surprised if the 32-bit registers work. You ask for register x, 2 registers, and get the values back. This is not like x and x+1 as usual. Very strange, but could work; the manual says it does. Just wondering why a vendor would make such a device that probably has trouble...