Created Date: May 06,2018

Created by: strantor

P2-550 = $255

P3-550 = $799

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$544 (313%) difference

When I use the Product Selection Tool , the only selection which drops Productivity 2000 out of the running is that Productivity 3000 supports Local I/O expansion, where Productivity 2000 does not.

Is that really the only major difference? Looking at the pretty pictures, I see the obvious differences in ports; USB Vs SD for storage, Micro vs Type B for USB programming. Both those differences together plus the local I/O expansion do not seem like they would justify a>3X difference in price. So I am left wondering what else could be different, that isn't obvious, or that requires more in-depth reading. Maybe I underestimate the value of expansion local I/O. But is there any difference in the instruction sets or other area that makes Productivity 3000 a 313% more capable controller?

EDIT:

To be clear, I am not complaining about the price of Productivity 3000. It seems an excellent value. I'm just wondering what "gotchas " lie in store for me if I opt for the Productivity 2000, since I won't need expansion local I/O.

Created Date: May 06,2018

Created by: kewakl

I'm not just sitting around waiting for answers; I'm also looking....

from the downloadable product inserts...

P3 / P2

Real USB port / wimpy USB port

P3-550,P3-550E,P3-530 / P2-550

remote RX + RS / RS only

17 / 9 base groups (1 local + 16 remote / 1 local + 8 remote)

59,840 / 4,320 IO max

32 / 16 GS drives

ModbusTCP clients - servers

32-32 / 32-16

EtherNet/IP scanner - adapter

128-16 / 32-4

I do not know if it matters to you: the P3 has a UL1604 ( ANSI/ISA 12.12.01-2000 ) agency approval, whereas I do not see this for the P2.

P2 hardware is smaller and 'less physically rigid ' than the P3

I don't have much history with the plastic housing on the P2, but I have had some fatigue with the P3. The battery holder gave up and broke.

It was well within its specified 0 - 60C operating temperature -- not sure of the humidity.

Note: it was the dark plastic holder (at the metal hinge pin), not the P3 housing that gave up.

Created Date: May 06,2018

Created by: strantor

from the downloadable product inserts...

P3 / P2

Real USB port / wimpy USB port

P3-550,P3-550E,P3-530 / P2-550

remote RX + RS / RS only

17 / 9 base groups (1 local + 16 remote / 1 local + 8 remote)

59,840 / 4,320 IO max

32 / 16 GS drives

ModbusTCP clients - servers

32-32 / 32-16

EtherNet/IP scanner - adapter

128-16 / 32-4

I do not know if it matters to you: the P3 has a UL1604 ( ANSI/ISA 12.12.01-2000 ) agency approval, whereas I do not see this for the P2.

P2 hardware is smaller and 'less physically rigid ' than the P3

I don't have much history with the plastic housing on the P2, but I have had some fatigue with the P3. The battery holder gave up and broke.

It was well within its specified 0 - 60C operating temperature -- not sure of the humidity.

Note: it was the dark plastic holder (at the metal hinge pin), not the P3 housing that gave up.

Thank you! Excellent info. You did save me from making a mistake! P2 does not support enough Ethernet/IP devices for my needs. I did not catch that.

It's the scanners I care about, not the adapters, but in playing with this new knowledge I found the Ethernet/IP adapters for P3000 only has 4 tabs just like the P2000.

Does not necessarily correlate with ? Is it implied that up to 16 scanners read from the 4 same adapters?

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Created Date: May 16,2018

Created by: PLC_PM

Just so we 're clear on the semantics ... The dialog you show in your pic above is configuring the P2000 as an EtherNet/IP Adapter (server/slave), to communicate to some other EtherNet/IP Scanner (client/master).

So if that's what you 're looking to do, then yes, you can configure the P2000 to serve data to 4 different EtherNet/IP Scanners. The I/O data arrays within each data block can be between 1 - 500 bytes of data.

Created Date: May 17,2018

Created by: Ridgeline Mach

A dig at FactsEng ----- The P2 has a MUCH BETTER LOOKING (and hopefully) longer lived display!

-- When will you deliver a replacement OLED for the P3? The P1 lcd is junk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://forum.automationdirect.com/filedata/fetch?id=111117&type=small

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Created Date: May 17,2018

Created by: kewakl

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Well the LCD is junk! Just look at it:o

But really, mental block. That should be P3 lcd is junk. Good catch.