EIB Components

  EIB Components

EIB devices are divided into three types according to their use:

1. Basic components, such as power supply unit (PSU), choke, and signal filter.
2. System components, which support the basic operation of the system such as Bus Coupling Unit (BCU), Line Coupler (LC), Phase Coupler, Repeater.
3. EIB devices which are dedicated to applications such as sensors, actuators, IR decoders, display panels. These types of devices are connected to EIB by a Bus Coupling Unit or similar interface.

         Power Supply Unit (PSU)

The power supply unit provides power for feeding of EIB Bus devices (Safety Extra Low Voltage (SELV), 30 V DC nominal).

         Choke

The choke provides the coupling of the Power Supply Unit to the data bus line.

         Data Rail

The data rail is a Mounted support with four tracks to distribute the bus onto DIN rail.

         Data Rail Connector

The data rail connector provides the connection between the bus cable and the data rail.

 

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         Bus Coupling Unit (BCU)

The BCU is available as an EIB standard product or the functionality may be integrated directly in the product. As it is shown on Fig.1 the BCU is composed of:

1.     A transceiver: a module which provides:

-          Bus coupling of the device by sending data signals onto the medium and decoding received signals.

-          Optional a DC power conversion for the BCU, for the receiver and transmitter function, for output signal generation.

2.     A communication controller.

3.     A microprocessor which provides:

-          Necessary communication features

-          Optimal application routing

-          Physical External Interface (PEI) support

-          Operating system

-          Space for a program

         The Line Coupler (LC)

 The Line Coupler is a system component for Twisted Pair. It uses the same basic functions as the repeater, but it connects the line to which it belongs to the main line. The line coupler ensures data packets routing and buffering with overflow management going from a line to the main line and vice versa. The power feeding of the LC comes from the line it belongs to. The LC provides galvanic separation.

         The Repeater

 The repeater as well is a Twisted Pair system component. Its function is to regenerate the electrical network signals and to separate the bus access. The repeater makes it possible to connect electrical segments together and create large extended lines without back feeding effects from one electrical segment to the other. By use of repeaters more than 64 devices per line can physically be connected and more than 1000m overall wire length is allowed.

EIB Bus devices are generally built up from two parts: the Bus Coupling Unit and the application module.

The Bus Coupling Unit is a decentralized bus manager in each device and provides electrical features as well as data coupling to the Bus, in order to allow the separation of application hardware and software from the Bus communication system.

From the installation point of view the EIB Bus devices can be divided into 4 groups:

1. Rail-mounted EIB Bus devices (for applications like load switching, analog input, binary input, IR-decoder) for controlling of appliances such as brightness sensors, anemometers, humidity sensors, temperature sensors.
2. Flush mounted: where the Bus Coupling Unit is mounted in the wall for monitoring purposes and the application module snapped onto it outside the wall (like pushbutton, sensor, IR-decoder, set-point control, display panel).
3. Surface mounted EIB Bus devices: where both the Bus Coupling Unit and the application module are mounted outside the wall.
4. Device mounted: for incorporation into appliances such as heaters, lamps, etc...