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When designing your Foundation Fieldbus or Profibus system, you need to create a Fieldbus brick assembly. A fieldbus brick assembly is a composite object that consists of a wiring equipment item (fieldbus brick) and an apparatus group. An apparatus group constitutes an apparatus strip (that is, a terminal strip) with a number of apparatuses created according to a selected apparatus configuration.

When creating a fieldbus brick, you can define power supply requirements and current consumption. Adding an apparatus to a fieldbus brick, entails the definition of an apparatus configuration and the number of apparatuses that you need. Note that the power supply requirements and current consumption values are common to all the existing apparatuses belonging to the apparatus group that exists under a fieldbus brick. Therefore, changing an electric property values affects all the apparatuses that exist under that fieldbus brick. For more details about wiring equipment and apparatuses, see Wiring Equipment.

When generating a segment validation report, the software takes into account the fieldbus brick electric properties and validates the total current of a segment.

We recommend that first you create your equipment in the Reference Explorer so that you have as many typical configurations as possible. Then, you can copy these typical configurations to the Domain Explorer and this way create numerous fieldbus bricks on the fly.

See Also

Profibus Design Common Tasks