5 Summary

Classical RS-485 and Powerbus both have their place amidst an ever-changing landscape of industrial applications and end equipments. While these standards cause devices to speak slightly different languages that are unintelligible to one another it still may be worthwhile to have a dual use board that can be applied to multiple systems regardless if they are Classical RS-485 or Powerbus to either act as a universal board or as a stop gap while the rest of the systems nodes are upgraded to be Powerbus capable. This application note gave a generalized overview of a potential solution – one other solution could be to implement switches every place there is a 0Ω link and at the inductive coupling to allow for a fully populated dual use board.