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Why Does the Horter I2ARL Need a Separate W5500 Module for Modbus TCP?

Horter's EUR 24.90 I2ARL kit ships its LAN slot empty and its ATmega328P has no Ethernet MAC, so Modbus TCP needs the separate EUR 11.90 W5500 module.

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Published August 27, 2026 · © 3-Clause BSD License(BSD-3-Clause)

Original author: Juergen Horter, Horter & Kalb · GermanyOriginal source (new tab)

Why Does the Horter I2ARL Need a Separate W5500 Module for Modbus TCP?

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📌 The EUR 24.90 Kit Contains No Ethernet Part Horter & Kalb, an electronics maker in Bayreuth, Bavaria, sells solder kits for the I2C bus and converters for SIMATIC S5 controllers. Its article 292, reference I2ARL-Bk, is an "I2C master kit with ARDUINO-UNO and optional W5500 LAN on DIN rail", and optional is the word that decides this build. For EUR 24.90 the bag holds an ATmega328P, a 16 MHz crystal, a 7405 inverter, an LM1117-3.3 regulator, four LEDs and three 1x6 sockets, and no Ethernet part. Everything article 292 contains for EUR 24.90. No Ethernet part is in this photograph. Product…

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