The EL3783 EtherCAT Terminal is a power monitoring I/O terminal

 used for state monitoring of a 3-phase AC voltage system.

For each phase, voltage up to 400/690 Vrms and current up to 1

Arms/5 Arms are sampled as instantaneous values with a resolution

of 16 bits. The six channels are measured simultaneously based on

the EtherCAT oversampling principle with a temporal resolution of

up to 50 µs and then passed on to the control system.

With the processing power available there and in combination with

the TwinCAT Function TF3650. true RMS or power calculations as

well as complex user-specific algorithms can be calculated via the

voltage and current characteristics. Through the oversampling

principle, the terminal is able to measure at significantly shorter 

intervals than the cycle time of the control system.

AC and DC parameters must be connected and measured with a

common reference potential.

Through the feature “ExtendedRange”, the user has the full technical

measuring range available at up to 130% of the specified nominal

measuring range. The EL3783 supports distributed clocks and can

therefore measure synchronously with other EtherCAT devices.

In combination with EL6688 it can be synchronized via IEEE 1588 to

external clocks. The terminal can also be operated without distributed

clocks.