The display terminal has an illuminated, low-reflection LC display with two lines of 16 characters. It can be used, for example, for displaying status messages or diagnostic information. A non-resettable operating hours counter is integrated and can be displayed and also read out via the controller. Furthermore, four internal 32 bit counters and four 32 bit timers are implemented, which are automatically and fail-safe stored in the terminal. Production times can be saved here and quantities as well as error or downtimes can be recorded.

Via the user program dynamic and static application-specific texts can be displayed, e.g. “Production counter: (count value)”. If the output text is longer than 16 characters, the terminal automatically switches to scrolling text mode. Two special characters can be defined via a 5 x 8 pixel matrix.

The statuses of the navigation switch – up, down, left, right and enter – are transmitted to the controller as binary variables and can be used, for example, to control the display.

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