It makes no difference whether active or passive: when it comes to powering sensors and actuators, the newest distributor generation from Bihl+Wiedemann is the perfect solution for any system concept. Nor does the user need to worry about line protection: this is already integrated into both the active and passive distributors. The next pages show the benefits of the new distributor generation from Bihl+Wiedemann.
Passive distributors and active distributors
Generally there are two common ways of connecting and powering sensors and actuators to AS-Interface . For components with ASi already on board, a simple passive Distributor is all that is needed (Fig., left). But even for completely normal standard modules without ASi there is an efficient solution: they can be easily incorporated into the network using so-called active distributors (Fig., right) with integrated ASi Chip.
