Description
The 2711PC-T6C20D is an Allen-Bradley (Rockwell Automation) PanelView Plus 6 Compact 600 operator interface terminal — the all-in-one, 5.7-inch color touch variant that packs display, logic, RAM, and both an Ethernet and RS-232 port into a single 68 mm-deep panel-mount housing. Unlike the standard 2711P, there is no separate display module and logic module to mate: the 2711PC-T6C20D is one sealed brick, which is why it fits where a two-piece PanelView Plus simply will not.
It runs a Windows CE 6.0-based FactoryTalk View Machine Edition runtime, so the terminal boots straight into your .MER application and stays there — no keyboard, no mouse, no Windows desktop in front of the operator. For a machine builder or a maintenance team sitting on a working CompactLogix or MicroLogix cell, that is the whole point: the 2711PC-T6C20D is a dedicated face for the machine, not a PC pretending to be one.
Application Scenarios
Picture a contract-packager’s vial filler with six SKUs a week. The panel is a 2711PC-T6C20D in a stainless washdown enclosure no deeper than a shoebox. The operator needs recipe select, live fill-weight trend, and an alarm banner that does not disappear when the shift changes. More importantly, the panel builder needed all of that on 24 V DC, behind a NEMA 4X front, without dedicating a full 2711P display-plus-logic pair and the DIN rail real estate that comes with it.
When the backlight on the original finally fell short of the caustic-glare test, the line did not get a migration project — it got a like-for-like 2711PC-T6C20D, same 123×156 mm hole, same gasket, same .MER loaded from the SD card. The Ethernet port stayed on the existing EtherNet/IP subnet to the CompactLogix, the RS-232 port kept talking to the weigh-scale head, and the only thing the day shift noticed was that the screen was bright again. No new tags, no new cutout, no validation rewrite.
Parameter
| Main Parameters | Value/Description |
|---|---|
| Product Model | 2711PC-T6C20D — suffix “D” = 24 V DC input; the “8” revision denotes the standard WinCE 6.0 build without extended file viewers |
| Manufacturer | Allen-Bradley, Rockwell Automation |
| Product Category | Operator Interface Terminal / HMI (PanelView Plus 6 Compact, 600 family) |
| Display | 5.7-inch color active-matrix TFT, 320×240 QVGA, 18-bit color, 115×86 mm viewable area |
| Brightness | 440 cd/m² (nits) — readable under high-bay and washdown glare |
| Touch Interface | 4-wire analog resistive, 10…110 g operating force, ~1 million actuations |
| Memory | 256 MB RAM, 512 MB nonvolatile flash, ~73 MB free user/project memory |
| Operating System | Windows CE 6.0 (streamlined build, FactoryTalk View ME runtime pre-loaded) |
| Ethernet | 10/100 Mbps RJ45, Auto-MDI/MDI-X, EtherNet/IP (CIP explicit & implicit messaging) |
| Serial / USB | 1× RS-232 (DF1 / DH-485 point-to-point), 1× USB Host (Type A), 1× USB Device (Type B, downloads) |
| Expansion | Front-accessible SD card slot, 1784-SDx / 1784-SDHCx — recipes, alarms, firmware, restores |
| Real-Time Clock | Battery-backed RTC, ±2 min/month, CR2032 field-replaceable, ≥4 yr life at 25 °C |
| Power | 24 V DC nominal, 18…30 V DC input, 9 W typical / 15 W max (0.375…0.6 A), SELV/PELV or Class 2 supply |
| Backlight | White LED, non-replaceable, ≥25,000 hr at 25 °C — no lamp to swap, ever |
| Environmental | 0…55 °C operating, 5…95% RH non-condensing, 2000 m altitude, 15 g shock / 2 g vibration (57…500 Hz) |
| Mechanical | Front 152×185 mm (H×W), built-in depth 68 mm, cutout 123×156 mm, ~594 g |
| Enclosure | NEMA Type 12/13/4X (indoor), IEC IP66 front; UL Class I/II/III Div 2, CE, RoHS |
| Software | FactoryTalk View Studio Machine Edition, v6.10 or later (.MER runtime — not PanelBuilder 32/600) |
| Status | Discontinued 2021-09-30; no planned OEM replacement — supplied as tested surplus / refurbished spare |
