Manual
9 Additional Information 
BU 0180 GB-0914  Pre-series version  169 
9.5 Operation with FI circuit breakers 
With frequency inverters (except 115V devices), leakage currents of up to 16mA are to be expected if the 
mains  filter is  active. These  are  designed for  operation  with  leakage current  circuit breakers  for  the 
protection of persons. 
For further details, please refer to Section 2.7.4. 
9.6 System bus 
Frequency inverters and components communicate with each other via the system bus. This bus system is 
a CAN bus with CANopen protocol. Up to four frequency inverters and their associated components (field 
bus module, absolute encoder, I/O modules etc.) can be connected to the system bus. Integration of the 
components into the system bus does not require any specific knowledge of the bus on the part of the user.  
Only  the  proper  physical configuration  of the  bus system  and if  necessary the  correct  addressing  of  the 
participants need to be taken into account by the user. 
The connection of the individual NORD components is described in this manual (See section 2.8, 3.3 and 3.4). 
NOTE: Communication on the system bus only starts if an extension module is connected to the bus or if in 
a Master / Slave system, the Master is parameterised to P503=3 and the Slave is parameterised to P503=2. 
This is especially important if several frequency inverters which are connected via the system bus are to be 
read out in parallel with the NORDCON parameterisation software. In this case, identification of the devices 
with NORDCON is not possible. 
Physical structure 
Standard 
CAN 
Bus length 
20m with a wire cross section of 0.25mm² (AWG23) 
Structure 
preferably linear 
Spur cables 
possible, (max. 6m) 
Termination resistors 
120Ω, 250mW at both ends of a system bus 
(with SK 1x0E-… or SK xU4-… via DIP switches) 
Baud rate 
250kBaud - preset 
SYSTEM BUS 
Configuration Example 
1. FI 
2. FI 
3. FI 
4. FI 
1. I/O 
Extension 
8. I/O 
Extension 
Field Bus 
Option 
additional participants 
(I/O extensions, CANopen encoder 
Note: 
Terminal77 = System bus + (CAN H) 
Terminal78 = System bus - (CAN L) 
Terminal numbers may differ 










