# Tool Connected - 73

Indicates if a tool is connected or not to a Virtual Station.

Name in SoftPLC: TOOL_CONNECTED

Converter | Signal Type | Value Type | Size Min [bit] | Size Max [bit]
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Standard | State | Boolean | 1 | 1
Invert | State | Boolean | 1 | 1

To avoid duplicating signals, it is possible to define Value Converters.

Converters are used to support more than one representation of the same signal (for example Angle/Torque Status can both be represented bitwise or as a status character).

## Devices

- Fieldbus: TRUE

- Indicator Box: TRUE

- Internal I/O: TRUE

- Operator Panel: TRUE

- Tool Functions: TRUE

- ST Selector: FALSE

- Stacklight: TRUE

- TLS Tag: TRUE

- I/O Expander: TRUE