Mini Hardbook SoftPLC, Model HB-M0QA: HB-M0QA
Mini Hardbook Models HB-M0QA-x Overview
Hardbook SoftPLC's are versatile Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs). All features of the SoftPLC Runtime Control Software are included. Users have virtually unlimited capacity for program logic and data table, data logging, recipes, etc. Plenty of communication ports with configurable drivers, I/O interface options make Hardbook SoftPLC's perfect for both control and protocol converter gateway applications. All HB-M0QA Hardbook SoftPLC's have:
- (2) GB Ethernet ports
- (4) serial ports and (3) USB ports
- 4GB RAM and 8GB C-Fast flash user memory
- Selectable I/O interfaces to a wide variety of I/O products via Ethernet and/or serial ports
- Mini-PCIe expansion for internal cell modem or other interface cards
- Panel mounting w/ DIN-rail mount option

There are (4) SoftPLC firmware runtime sizes, which determines the maximum number of ModbusTCP server connections, Ethernet/IP connection bytes, force-able discrete I/O, and Allen-Bradley logical I/O racks supported (I and O addresses). The table below summarizes the available sizes:
SoftPLC Sizes | ||||
Cat No Suffix | ModbusTCP Server Connections | Ethernet/IP Connection Bytes | Input (I) Addresses | Output (O) Addresses |
LT | 2 | 64 | 128 - 1 logical rack | 128 - 1 logical rack |
1K | 16 | 512 | 1024 - 8 logical racks | 1024 - 8 logical racks |
2K | 32 | 1024 | 2048 - 16 logical racks | 2048 - 16 logical racks |
8K | 127 | 4096 | 8192 - 64 logical racks | 8192 - 64 logical racks |