Introduction

Easy Series Master Range

Easy Series delivers a range of energy management and industrial automation products that focus on core features to meet the needs of customers at a value price. The Easy Series products are intuitive to set up and use. The series includes essential product lines such as circuit breakers, UPS, metering, motion and drives, human-machine interface, PLC, and push buttons.

Modbus Communication

The Modbus communication option enables Schneider Electric low voltage circuit breakers to be connected to a supervisor or to any other device with a master Modbus communication channel.

The Modbus communication option is available for the EasyPact MVS circuit breakers with the BCM ULP circuit breaker communication module embedded.

The circuit breakers can be connected to an RS-485 serial line network with Modbus protocol using an IFM Modbus-SL interface for one circuit breaker.

Access to Functions

The Modbus communication option provides access to many functions, including:

• read metering and diagnostic data

• read status conditions

• transfer of time-stamped events

• display protection settings

• read the circuit breakers identification and configuration data

• time-setting and synchronization

This list depends on the composition of the intelligent modular unit (IMU) (type of circuit breaker and ETV trip system) and the enabled functions.

Intelligent Modular Unit

A modular unit is a mechanical and electrical assembly containing one or more products to perform a function in a switchboard.

The circuit breaker with its internal communicating components (ETV trip system) and external ULP modules (IO module) connected to one communication interface is called an intelligent modular unit.