Product Description

Electronic Marshalling hardware includes:

• CHARM I/O Carrier (DIN rail-mounted and supports

redundant pair of CHARM I/O Cards, redundant 24

V DC power connectivity, and redundant Ethernet

communication modules).

• CHARM I/O Card (CIOC) provides communication

between CHARMs and the Ethernet I/O network to

M-series, S-series, and PK Controllers. The CIOC has

Achilles Communications Certification Level 1 and the

redesigned CIOC2 has more computing power and

Achilles Communications Certification Level 2. The CIOC2

is a drop-in replacement for the CIOC (v13.3.1 or later

is required).

• CHARM Base plate (DIN rail-mounted with interleaving

power and bus connectors. Supports 12 CHARMs and

their terminal blocks, as well as connection for injected

field power).

• CHARM Terminal Block (removable terminal block

providing terminal connections to field wiring and

physical latch for CHARM).

• CHARMs (Characterization Module for each field signal.

Provides basic analog to digital conversion and signal

isolation to the redundant communication bus).

• Cable Extenders that provide flexibility in

carrier mounting.

• I/O bus termination (provides bus terminations for

redundant I/O bus).

• Labeling features for baseplate and channel identification.