Press Release

26th February 2010
Building Automation: reducing control cabinet and assembly costs
16-channel terminal frees more space in control cabinets

The Beckhoff HD Terminal is a flexible new Bus Terminal series with greatly increased packing density. The ‘High Density’ Bus Terminals feature 16 digital channels in the housing of a 12 mm electronic terminal block. This reduces the space required in control cabinets and significantly lowers the price per channel. The HD Bus Terminals are fully in line with current trends in building automation, because although extensive technology implementation is demanded in buildings today, there is at the same time only a limited amount of space available for installation.

The HD Bus Terminals are available in various versions, such as 16-channel terminals for digital inputs or outputs, 8-channel terminals for digital inputs or outputs with 2-wire connection, or “multi-tasking” combination terminals with eight digital inputs and eight digital outputs, offering the user a high degree of flexibility.

There is a broad range of applications for HD Bus Terminals in building automation: for example, 8-way buttons with integrated LEDs, for indicating the switching statuses, can be wired completely to a single 12 mm Bus Terminal. Eight thermal drives can be controlled completely by a single 12 mm output terminal using the 2-wire technique. On the input side, eight window or door contacts can be connected to one HD Bus Terminal using the 2-wire technique. With the compact I/O modules, the user saves valuable installation space in the control cabinet and the cost per channel is lowered significantly. A further advantage is the simplification of system assembly. Despite the high packing density, the convenient layout of the connection points is retained.

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  • The Beckhoff HD Bus Terminals with 16 connection points reduce space requirements in control cabinets. For example, an 8-way switch can be fully wired with 8 digital inputs and 8 digital outputs for status LEDs using the KL1859 HD Bus Terminal, which is only 12 mm wide.

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    The Beckhoff HD Bus Terminals with 16 connection points reduce space requirements in control cabinets. For example, an 8-way switch can be fully wired with 8 digital inputs and 8 digital outputs for status LEDs using the KL1859 HD Bus Terminal, which is only 12 mm wide.

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