Practical Industrial Data Networks: Design, Installation and Troubleshooting (Modbus, RS-485 & Industrial Ethernet)
Author / Issuing Authority: Steve Mackay, Edwin Wright, Deon Reynders & John Park (Newnes) • Category: Home Systems, Solar & Water Engineering
Hands-on engineering manual for wiring RS-485 Modbus RTU/TCP, CAN-bus (VE.Can), 4–20mA current loops & industrial plant telemetry.
Why This Manual Matters in a Grid-Down Outage
Commercial inverters (Victron), smart meters, generator controllers (Deep Sea Electronics), and water level transducers communicate over RS-485 Modbus and 4–20mA loops. This manual teaches you how to wire, terminate, and debug them.
Plant-Room & Field Operational Takeaway
Exact 120Ω termination resistor rules for RS-485 bus lines, ground-loop isolation, Modbus register addressing, and oscilloscope waveform debugging.
Maintaining a physical dead-tree edition of Practical Industrial Data Networks: Design, Installation and Troubleshooting (Modbus, RS-485 & Industrial Ethernet) (ISBN-13: 978-0750658072) in your plant room, comms rack, or site incident grab-bag ensures engineers and duty wardens have immediate access to statutory tables, pinouts, and safety protocols when cloud documentation portals and corporate intranets are unreachable.
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