Mini Hardbook SoftPLC, Model HB2-MMQA: HB2-MMQA
Mini Hardbook Models HB-MMQA-x Overview
Hardbook SoftPLC's are versatile Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs). All features of the SoftPLC Runtime Control Software are included. Users have virtually unlimited capacity for program logic and data table, data logging, recipes, etc. Plenty of communication ports with configurable drivers, I/O interface options make Hardbook SoftPLC's perfect for both control and protocol converter gateway applications. All HB-MMQA Hardbook SoftPLC's have:
- (2) GB Ethernet ports
- (2) serial ports and (4) USB ports
- 2GB RAM (expandable to 8GB) and 8GB C-Fast flash user memory
- Selectable I/O interfaces to a wide variety of I/O products via Ethernet and/or serial ports
- (2) Mini-PCIe expansion sockets for fieldbus interface cards or modems
- Panel mounting brackets included

There are (4) SoftPLC firmware runtime sizes, which determines the maximum number of ModbusTCP server connections, Ethernet/IP connection bytes, force-able discrete I/O, and Allen-Bradley logical I/O racks supported (I and O addresses). The table below summarizes the available sizes:
SoftPLC Sizes | ||||
Cat No Suffix | ModbusTCP Server Connections | Ethernet/IP Connection Bytes | Input (I) Addresses | Output (O) Addresses |
LT | 2 | 64 | 128 - 1 logical rack | 128 - 1 logical rack |
1K | 16 | 512 | 1024 - 8 logical racks | 1024 - 8 logical racks |
2K | 32 | 1024 | 2048 - 16 logical racks | 2048 - 16 logical racks |
8K | 127 | 4096 | 8192 - 64 logical racks | 8192 - 64 logical racks |