Product Description
I. Product Overview
1784-KTX is a high-performance communication interface card that provides a reliable and efficient solution for data interaction and device connection in industrial systems, and has become an indispensable key component in many industrial automation projects.
This product is originally produced in the United States. Its manufacturing process follows Rockwell Automation's strict quality control system. Every step from component selection to finished product assembly and testing strives for perfection, ensuring that the product has excellent quality and high reliability. In the global industrial trade system, 1784-KTX can be conveniently transported to all parts of the world through major domestic ports such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Tianjin, meeting the urgent needs of industrial enterprises in different regions for advanced communication interface equipment, and effectively promoting the upgrading and improvement of global industrial automation communication networks.

II. Technical Parameters
(1) Communication Capability
Interface Type:
As an ISA half-length card, 1784-KTX is compatible with 16-bit ISA or EISA slots and must not be installed in 8-bit expansion slots. With its unique interface design, it provides a stable physical connection foundation for devices to access industrial networks.
It is equipped with a dedicated network access port, matched with an RJ-45 connector, and can use 17860 cp cable (RJ-45 8-pin connector) to connect ControlNet network devices and programming terminals, ensuring the stability and efficiency of the data transmission path.
Equipped with 2 redundant media BNC connectors, it can directly communicate with the ControlNet network. In complex industrial network environments, it effectively improves the reliability and redundancy of communication, ensuring uninterrupted data transmission.
Communication Protocol Support: It fully supports various mainstream industrial communication protocols such as Data Highway Plus and DH-485. This enables it to achieve seamless communication connections with PLC-2, PLC-3, PLC-5 series programmable controllers, as well as processors such as SLC 5/04, SLC 5/01, SLC 5/02, and SLC 5/03. Whether it is simple equipment status monitoring or complex system collaborative control command transmission, 1784-KTX can accurately and quickly complete data interaction tasks based on different protocols, easily adapting to various industrial automation communication architectures.
(2) Data Processing Performance
Processor Collaboration Performance: Interaction with the host processor is realized through on-board dual-port memory. This design greatly improves data transmission efficiency, effectively avoids bottlenecks in the data transmission process, enables the host processor to quickly obtain the data collected or received by 1784-KTX, and at the same time, can timely feed back the processed control commands to 1784-KTX for further transmission, ensuring smooth data processing and timely response of the entire industrial automation system.
Data Transmission Management Capability: 1784-KTX itself has powerful data transmission and management functions. In industrial networks, it can systematically classify, package, and transmit large amounts of data, ensuring accurate and error-free flow of data between different devices and systems. At the same time, it can perform real-time diagnosis of the local network. Once network communication abnormalities such as signal attenuation and packet loss are found, it can quickly locate and feedback, providing strong support for maintenance personnel to quickly solve network faults.
(3) Environmental Adaptability
Operating Temperature Range: It can work stably in the temperature range of 32°F to 140°F (0°C to 60°C). Whether it is an industrial plant in a cold area or a production workshop in a high-temperature environment, 1784-KTX can adapt, ensuring normal execution of communication tasks under different temperature conditions without affecting data transmission performance due to temperature issues.
Storage and Transportation Temperature: During storage or transportation, the ambient temperature must be maintained between -40°F and 185°F (-40°C to 85°C). This wide temperature adaptation range enables the product to maintain the stability of internal electronic components in various complex logistics and warehousing environments, ensuring that performance is not affected when it reaches users.
Relative Humidity: It can operate reliably in an environment with a relative humidity of 5% - 95% (non-condensing). In humid environments, its internal circuits and components have undergone special protective treatment, so they will not cause faults such as short circuits and corrosion due to moisture; in dry environments, it can also effectively prevent static electricity from damaging the equipment, ensuring long-term stable operation.
Vibration Resistance: The vibration rating is 10 to 60 Hz with a displacement of 0.012 inches. In industrial sites, various mechanical equipment often generate continuous vibration. 1784-KTX, with its excellent anti-vibration design, can work stably in such vibration environments, ensuring uninterrupted communication connections and undisturbed data transmission.
(4) Power Supply Requirements
During operation, it requires a 5V DC power supply to provide 0.4 amperes of current, and a ±12V DC power supply to provide 0.04 amperes of current. The power input design has good stability and compatibility, and can adapt to voltage fluctuations within a certain range, ensuring that 1784-KTX can stably obtain the required electric energy and continue to work normally in complex industrial power supply environments. At the same time, the product is equipped with overvoltage and overcurrent protection circuits. When the power supply is abnormal, it can automatically activate the protection mechanism to avoid damage to the equipment due to power supply problems, greatly improving the safety and reliability of the equipment.

III. Functional Characteristics
(1) High Reliability Communication
1784-KTX adopts industrial-grade components and advanced circuit design, and has extremely strong anti-electromagnetic interference capability. In industrial sites filled with a large number of strong electromagnetic interference sources such as motors and frequency converters, it can effectively resist external interference, ensuring the accuracy of data transmission and the reliable execution of control commands. Whether it is high-speed data transmission or long-term continuous communication, it can operate stably, greatly reducing communication interruptions, data errors and other problems caused by interference, and providing a solid guarantee for the stable operation of industrial automation systems.
(2) Flexible Network Connection
It can serve as a node on the Data Highway Plus or DH-485 network, directly connect to PLC-2 / PLC-3 controllers, and also communicate with various different series of processors. This flexible network connection capability gives industrial automation systems a higher degree of freedom in equipment selection and network architecture construction. Enterprises can easily build personalized industrial communication networks according to their own production needs and existing equipment conditions without worrying about equipment compatibility issues.
(3) Remote I/O Scanning Function
1784-KTX is equipped with a remote I/O scanning function, which can collect input and output data of remote devices in real-time and quickly transmit them to the control system. This function is particularly important for large-scale distributed industrial automation systems. Through it, centralized monitoring and management of equipment distributed in different regions can be realized, which greatly improves production efficiency and reduces manual inspection and maintenance costs.
(4) Convenient Installation and Configuration
The product is designed with full consideration of the convenience of installation and configuration. Before installation, users only need to simply configure the card's interrupt settings and basic memory address to smoothly install it into the compatible slot. The operation process is simple and easy to understand, without the need for professional and complex debugging procedures, which greatly shortens the equipment installation and debugging cycle and improves project implementation efficiency. At the same time, the design based on CMOS technology is sensitive to static electricity, but as long as standard ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection measures are followed during operation, such as touching grounded objects for grounding, wearing a grounded wristband, avoiding touching connectors and components, etc., static electricity damage to the equipment can be effectively avoided. When the equipment is not in use, during transportation and repair, placing it in an electrostatic shielding container can further ensure the safety of the equipment.