Description
The 2711P-B7C4D1 is the keypad-and-touch member of Rockwell Automation’s PanelView Plus 700 family — a 6.5-inch color graphic terminal that gives the operator both a physical F-key/numeric cluster and a resistive touchscreen on the same 640×480 VGA panel. It is the machine-door interface that bridged the leap from the old PanelView Standard 550/600 world into FactoryTalk View Machine Edition, and it still runs thousands of OEM lines exactly as commissioned.
What makes the 2711P-B7C4D1 worth stocking is the input redundancy. An operator can punch a recipe number on the dome keys with a gloved hand, then drill into a trend or an alarm detail with the touchscreen — two failure modes, one terminal. Add a 24 V DC rail feed, one Ethernet port for EtherNet/IP and one RS-232 for DF1 point-to-point, and you have a panel that talks to a CompactLogix, a MicroLogix and a legacy drive all on the same shift without a gateway box.
Application Scenarios
Picture a regional dairy’s filler-capper cell. The OEM delivered it with a ControlLogix L63, a PowerFlex 755 on the cap torque, and a 2711P-B7C4D1 on the door: start/stop and product-change keys on the left, a touch-driven fill-level trend and alarm list on the right, and a USB stick in the top port that gets the shift’s reject-count CSV dumped every break. One morning the screen is black but the PLC is happy and the line is running blind. The supervisor cannot acknowledge the “low sterile-air pressure” alarm, and the filler keeps tripping on its own safety interlocks because nobody can clear the latch.
That is the failure the 2711P-B7C4D1 was built to survive cheaply. Pull the suspect unit, drop in a tested spare, boot to Configuration Mode, confirm the EtherNet/IP shortcut address, import the .MER from the SD card, and the exact same screens, alarms and recipe keys are back before the next crate is filled. No cutout change, no Studio 5000 retagging, no operator training. The win is not the resolution — it is that the person running the machine never knew the hardware changed.
Parameter
| Main Parameters | Value / Description |
|---|---|
| Product Model | 2711P-B7C4D1 — PanelView Plus 700, keypad + touch, color TFT |
| Manufacturer | Allen-Bradley, Rockwell Automation (USA) |
| Product Category | PanelView Plus graphic operator terminal (HMI / MMI / OIT) |
| Display | 6.5″ diagonal color active-matrix TFT LCD; viewable area 132 × 99 mm (5.2 × 3.9 in) |
| Resolution | 640 × 480 VGA, 18-bit color (~262k colors) — crisp enough for trends, alarm grids and small graphic cells |
| Input method | Dual: stainless-domed function/numeric/navigation keypad plus analog resistive touchscreen. Keys: 1M actuations, ~340 gf. Touch: 1M actuations, 10–110 gf, recalibratable |
| Communication | 1× 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45, Auto MDI/MDI-X), EtherNet/IP + CIP; 1× RS-232 (DF1 point-to-point, DH-485/DH+/ControlNet with optional comms module); 2× USB 2.0 host (Type-A) |
| Protocols | EtherNet/IP (CIP), DF1 full/half-duplex, DH-485, DH+, ControlNet (optional module), serial printer. RSLinx Enterprise does tag routing inside the terminal — no PC required at runtime |
| Input voltage | 18…32 V DC, 24 V DC nominal (SELV/PELPV rail). Not an AC terminal — the A9 suffix is the AC version |
| Power & thermal | ~25 W typical working draw; nameplate/max rating quoted up to ~70 W inrush class. 50/60 Hz rail ripple is the usual killer, not load. Heat: plan airflow above 40 °C |
| Memory | 64 MB RAM + 64 MB nonvolatile user Flash (earlier builds: 32 MB Flash / 64 MB RAM — verify series letter). Stores the runtime .MER, alarms, trends, language files |
| Expansion / backup | SD card slot (1784-SDx recommended) + 2× USB host. Import/export .MER, alarm history, recipe CSV and firmware image without a laptop at the panel |
| Backlight | CCFL, white, 50,000 hours minimum to half-brightness; replaceable as field kit 2711P-RL7C2 — a dim screen is a lamp job, not a terminal scrap |
| Enclosure & mounting | NEMA Type 4X (indoor) / 12 / 13, IEC IP54–IP65 front face; panel-mount on four corner clamps, vertical orientation |
| Dimensions | 193 × 290 × 55 mm (7.58 × 11.40 × 2.18 in); cutout 167 × 264 mm (6.57 × 10.39 in). Depth behind panel matters — allow ~95 mm with gasket and cable bend radius |
| Environment | 0…+55 °C operating, −25…+70 °C storage, 5…95% RH non-condensing. TFT contrast falls in direct sun — not a sun-readable panel |
| OS / software | Windows CE 6.0. Applications built in FactoryTalk View Studio Machine Edition, runtime .MER. FTView ME 8.x/9.x patch level must match the terminal’s feature set |
| Indicators & config | Configuration Mode at boot: language, date/time, network, default app, touch calibration, RSLinx shortcuts. RTC battery-backed for alarm timestamps |
| Lifecycle | Discontinued by Rockwell effective Dec 30, 2021. Engineering replacement: 2711P-B7C22D9P (PV+ 7 Performance). Current supply is surplus / refurb / repair-channel; confirm series + FRN before you buy |
