Non-hazardous general purpose area Phoenix Contact offers a full family of modular components

Control cabinet or Zone 2/Division 2 covering virtually all of your electrical and electronic needs as
well as a broad range of value-added services. FOUNDATION
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Redundant bulk power

with UPS backup
CLIPLINE
• DIN rail-mount terminal blocks
Specialty
Foundation Fieldbus Traditional approach • Marking materials and printers
Foundation power supplies
Fieldbus host • Tools
• Ferrules
FNICO

TRABTECH
• Surge voltage protection
FISCO Comparison of energy-limited
Standard
installations
Foundation
• Traditionally, energy-limiting (voltage and
Fieldbus power
supplies Entity current) was centralized in the control cabinet
for both nonincendive (nL) and intrinsically safe INTERFACE
(ia, ib) protection applications • Analog signal converters • PLC cabling
Hazardous locations
Zone 0, 1/Division 1 • Approaches: • Power supplies • Rail-mount breakout modules
Field
• FNICO – Fieldbus Nonincendive Concept • Relays • Intrinsic safety modules
• FISCO – Fieldbus Intrinsically Safe Concept
PHOENIX CONTACT approach • Entity – Classical calculation method
Modular segment couplers COMBICON
The Phoenix Contact modular approach distributes • PCB terminal blocks
the energy-limiting protection to the field. Since
• Electronic component housings
energy is limited on a per spur basis, restrictions
are not imposed on power supply voltage or total
allowable segment current. This means longer
cable runs and more instruments per segment.
FISCO and FNICO can still be employed on the PLUSCON
spur, but to less benefit in such a point-to-point
• Industrial plug connectors
topology. Connection is permitted to Zone 0 and
• Sensor cabling and sensor boxes
Division 1 areas, as well as gas groups IIC and ABCD.

Spurs

AUTOMATIONWORX
• Solutions, products and services • Controllers and software
for DeviceNet, Profibus, Ethernet • Fieldbus I/O
and Interbus • Ethernet infrastructure components

Non-hazardous general purpose area Hazardous locations

or Zone 2/Division 2 Zone 0, 1/Division 1

Process fieldbus
PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG
Scalable field infrastructure
32823 Blomberg, Germany
Phone: +49/52 35/3-00
Fax: +49/52 35/3-1 07 99 Optimize installations, maintain integrity
Website: www.phoenixcontact.com

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Process fieldbus system architecture for Modular device couplers installed in
Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus PA a field enclosure Coupler system
• Pluggable spur connectors oriented only towards the cable
glands:
• Easy, neat and compact wiring
• Eliminates cable breakage due to exceeded bend radius
• ATEX, IECEx and cCSAus approvals with zone and division
Field infrastructure for process automation ratings

Typical Foundation Fieldbus segment • Energy limited per spur – [ia] and [nL] with entity, FISCO,
Control cabinet
Modularity and FNICO Flexible configurations with spare capacity
Phoenix Contact’s breakthrough modular field • Single-loop integrity – one IS (Intrinsically Safe) • Temperature range of -40 to +60 or 70 degrees Celsius
junction box system consists of three key isolator to one instrument: (-50 degrees Celsius available by special order)
Redundant bulk power
• Overall segment is unaffected by individual spur faults • Compliant to NE21 and designed to the FF-846 specification
with UPS backup
components — nonincendive device couplers, • No compromised redundancy with dedicated circuitry
• Robust Ex e, IP66 and NEMA 4X rated enclosure components
per spur
intrinsically safe isolating device couplers, and
• Size and weight of the field enclosure is significantly reduced
• Hot swap – perform maintenance without
enclosures. Based on the flexible T-bus DIN rail Foundation
Fieldbus host suspending segment operation
connection scheme, this system provides powerful, • Hot expansion – no need to design-in unused
spurs for future spare capacity
unprecedented benefits in a fieldbus installation.
• Substantial isolation, spur-to-spur and spur-to-
trunk
• Easily combine intrinsically safe and nonincendive
The device couplers provide short-circuit
Power supply/conditioner spurs on a segment
IS isolators
protection to ensure a fault on a spur does not Surge suppression
Trunk
disrupt the entire segment. Energy-limiting allows Field

live maintenance on a spur in the classified

hazardous area. The intrinsically safe isolating User interaction
coupler allows connection to Zone 0/Division 1, • Optimized segment overhead with configurable
current limit setpoints per module
while offering significant spur-to-trunk and
• Flexible shielding – float shield or connect to
spur-to-spur isolation. earth (via DIN rail) directly or capacitively
• Status indication – fault, power, communications,
termination and low-voltage warning

Spurs IS isolator and

Spurs nonincendive combination
Non-hazardous
general purpose area Hazardous locations
or Zone 2/Division 2 Zone 0, 1/Division 1
Terminator
• Reduced segment termination errors:
• External plug-mounting ensures that trunk-out cannot
Complete infrastructure solutions be used without first eliminating a terminator
Daisy-chain
• An LED provides clear visual indication where
• Bulk cabinet power consisting of redundant
a terminator is installed
Quints with diode module and backup DC UPS

• Foundation Fieldbus power supply/conditioner Description Type Order No.

• Pluggable surge suppression with base element Small enclosure FB-8-ENCL 2316093
alternatives Large enclosure FB-13-ENCL 2316103
Coupler FB-ET 2316048
• FF-844 approved cables and cordsets with 7/8-inch
quick-connects FB-2SP 2316051
Isolator FB-ISO 2316064
• Extensive catalog of accessories for DIN rail and
wiring management, as well as cable marking
For more information, visit www.phoenixcontact.com/fieldbus
or under Signal Converters INTERFACE/Serial

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