Terminals and jumpers
Terminals and strips
Terminal symbols are in the Terminals group of the Symbols tab: a feed-through terminal, a PE terminal and terminals with three and four connections. A terminal has two sides; a wire on either side belongs to the same conductor.
A terminal strip is one device, e.g. -X1; each terminal has a number (1, 2, PE). Placing terminals in a row (on one line, with no other symbol between them) makes one strip: the first shows -X1:1, the next ones only their numbers. A terminal placed next to a row joins its strip and takes the next number; one placed elsewhere starts a new strip.
Change the number in the Properties panel, or in the Terminals table.
The Terminals table
The Terminals tab at the bottom lists the terminals of all strips like a terminal diagram: strip, number, cable and target outside, jumper, target inside, part, place. In it:
- type a new terminal number;
- right-click for Renumber strip (1, 2, 3… in the order of the strip);
- click a row to go to the terminal.
The outside is the side with the cable. If the program guesses it wrong, set Sides: Swapped in the properties of the terminal.
The sides belong to the connection points of the terminal (points 1 and 2): the top points (above the circle as the symbol is drawn) are the inside, the bottom ones the outside. Turning or mirroring a terminal on the page keeps them: turn it to untangle its wires, and a wire moved to its top point stays on the top, in the lists of wire ends and in the Terminals tab.
Jumpers
A jumper bridges terminals of a strip, e.g. the 0 V terminals of several sensors: side by side, or every second or third terminal (a comb jumper with teeth taken out, for L, N, PE of one motor after another), on one page or several.
- Select two or more terminals of the strip (Shift-click adds one).
- Edit → Add jumper: all selected terminals of a strip are one jumper, joined to the jumpers they had.
The jumper is drawn between the circles of its terminals in a row, with a dot on each of them (not on the terminals it skips), and the bridged terminals become one net. Edit → Remove jumper takes the selected terminals out of their jumper. A jumper left with one terminal is reported by the check.
Parts of terminals
Each terminal can have its own part (a feed-through, a PE terminal, a fuse terminal). A new terminal takes the part of its neighbour in the row. Select terminals and use Edit → Part of terminals… to set it for all of them.
In the properties of the strip, tab Terminal strip: accessories with quantities (end plates, end clamps, markers) and the jumper part, which every new jumper gets. The parts list counts terminals one each, accessories by their quantity and jumpers one each.
The terminal diagram reports are made by Reports…, one per strip.