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<s>[INST] Camera in FTSE Summary: How can you display a camera image in FTSEHow can you display a camera image in FTSE? GigE which is very standard would be great but others would be acceptable. One suggestion is to use one that has a built in web site and run it in a browser. That is not very efficient. [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] Toolkit and software with multiple users Hi All ! We are doing service at some custumers, using our toolkit licenses. Usualy we have Logix500, 5K and FTSE5.0 installed on custumers PC. How can different service guys use different dongles on same PC and applications ?As i understand the local .LIC file is locked to a specific dongle. Can software be used with multiple dongles ? Is it posibel using a USB key for licenses, paired with the USB dongle ? [/INST] Yes, the software can be used with multiple dongles. Steps: Get an activation for a service guy and use his dongle as HostIDManually copy the .lic file just created to each PC you need that USB dongle will activate the software (Aid 54553)Repeat the above for each service guy; you will have various .lic files on customer PC, so that every service guy will be able to use his dongle in it. A normal USB key will not work with FactoryTalk Activation. Hope this helps... - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] Problem with tags in RS View Studio ME 4.00 Hi everyone, I'm actually migrating a Panel Builder 32 project (originally designed for a PV 550) to a RS View ME application for a PV 700 Plus. The panel is connected to a MicroLogix 1200 that handles data in a curious form. In order to have more precision in the calculations and save a large amount of memory, the variables involved in the process are scaled by the HMI allowing to the PLC to operate only with integers for later being unscaled by the HMI and presented to the user. As an example, I have a variable used as a setpoint for pH control, this variable is called PH_SP and stored in the N7:20 register of the data table in the PLC. This variable in the real format could be into the range of 5.00 pH to 7.00 pH, so in the PLC the N7:20 register contains a value from 500 to 700 (the value multiplied by 100). In order to achieve this, I've created a HMI tag called PH_STP with the following parameters: 1) MAX VALUE: 700 2) MIN VALUE: 500 3) SCALE: 0.01 4) OFFSET: 0 5) DATA TYPE: INTEGER 6) CONNECTION: ::[ML1200]N7:20 (where ML1200 is my RS Linx Enterprise shortcut). To access this tag, I'm using a NUMERIC INPUT CURSOR POINT with the following configuration: 1) NUMERIC POP UP: KEYPAD 2) MAX VALUE: 7 3) MIN VALUE: 5 4) RAMP VALUE: 0 5) DECIMAL POINT: FIXED POSITION 6) FIXED POS OUTPUT: DISPLAYED VALUE 7) DIGITS AFTER DECIMAL: 2 The display settings of this field are: 1) NUMBER OF DIGITS: 4 2) FILL LEFT WITH: NONE 3) DECIMAL PLACES: 2 So, according with the RS View help, and as far I could understood, the value that I can enter into the pop-up keypad are into the range of 5.00 to 7.00, this value is writed into the VALUE CONNECTION that in this case is PH_STP, after that is unscaled and compared with the tag's MAXIMUM and MINIMUM values and finally writed to the DATA CONNECTION (the register N7:20 in the MicroLogix 1200). The RS View help also refer that the scaling procedure is: 1) RS VIEW VALUE = (DATA SOURCE VALUE x SCALE) 2) DATA SOURCE VALUE = (RS VIEW VALUE / SCALE) So if I read 620 then the value displayed is 6.20 and if i write 6.20 the writed value must be 620. Well, the real problem occurs when I write 6.20 to my input field, the HMI displays an error saying that is impossible to write 6.20 to PH_STP because is out of the 500 to 700 range. Looks like the value wasn't be scaled just before being writed to the PLC. The curious thing about this, is that I've some other fields configured in a similar form (with the same scale factor and even other scalation factors 0.1, 0.001, etc) and are working fine. I've tried to delete the HMI tags and create it again but the problem remains. I'm a little desesperate about this, if you have any suggestion or answer to my problem, or if I'm missunderstanding the operation of the panel that I previously describe, please let me know, your replies will be very useful to me. Thanks in advance for reading my post, I'll looking forward for your answers. Regards. [/INST] It looks like your HMI data tag is an integer. Try changing that to a real. That will allow you an input with a decimal. good luck. I think I found an example in the Knowledge Base perfect for what you are trying: Answer ID #33870 Basically, the min/max for the HMI tag needs to be set for what you are writing to the processor, not for what the user will be typing on the screen. (You can keep the tag as an integer.) JHutch n </s>
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<s>[INST] software compatibility Hello, where i can find a chart about software compatibility to know if i'm using Rslinx 2.54, can i use Rsview 32 v7.0 with that software. And other software match as well. thx [/INST] Hi Flames, the two technotes showing software releases compatibility are: Aid 7144Aid 42682 Hope this helps, - fuzzy logic i need to know what is the procedure to intall correctly the software Rslogix 5000, Factory talk view machine edition and Rslinx clasicc. Thanks Please write me to [email protected] n </s>
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<s>[INST] FTView SE Client computer and application manager I am in the process of setting up a FTView SE standalone(local) client on a new computer. The installation guide says to backup the application on the development computer and then restore it on the production computer using the application manager. However the application manager is not installed on the client computer unless you install FTView studio also which we don't need. I only have 1 license for studio which is on my laptop. How are you supposed to restore an application on the client computer without having studio installed? I just looked at Chapter 6 again of the installation guide and it indeed says that all the software components have to be installed on the host computer. What we purchased was a license for FTView SE Station to run on the client computer. What am I missing here? [/INST] You don't need an license in order to restore an application. You just need to install Studio, which will in turn install some other tools like the Application Manager. It might be possible to do a customized install to only install the pieces/parts you want. But honestly I've never bothered to do anything but install all software components on my SE box. I can always choose to install a license later, if that's what I want to do. Once you've install all the software, Application Manager is under Start-> Programs-> Rockwell Software-> FactoryTalk View-> Tools. That will allow you to restore the .APA file you created on your development PC - no license required. ok that makes sense. Another question. I wanted to make sure that my activation for SE Station was installed however I do not have FT Activation installed on the client computer. Why would that not have installed when I installed FT services? Seems I remember the box being checked at the end of the installation but FT Activation is not installed. Do I need to uninstall everything and reinstall?I keep getting the Product Activation Failed window that pops up. I can understand that it would come up since I don't have the activation for Studio but it also lists other activations such as RSVSE.15, RSVSE.25, etc which look like runtime activations. I want to make sure I have a clear understanding of the question. Are you saying that the FactoryTalk Activation Tool is not installed? Or are you saying that it is installed but your computer does not have any FactoryTalk activations installed. If the tool is not installed, you can manually install it from the CD (or whatever media you installed from) by going to the REDISTFDAFTAServer folder and running Setup. I always install the FTA Server because it also acts as a client. If you are saying that the activation is not installed (doesn't appear in the Current Activations tab of the FTA tool), you will need to install one. You mentioned RSVSE.15, RSVSE.25 - those are HMI server activations and would be sufficient to activation an HMI server with a number of displays equal to the number after the decimal point (so RSVSE.25 would activate a 25-display HMI). That activation would not activate Studio, though - you would need RSV.Studio for that. Thanks for the info. What I was referring to was that for some reason FT Activation Tool did not get installed when I installed FTView. I went back and looked in the install guide and saw that I could install it manually, which I did. Thanks again for your help. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Axis_CIPDrive : what does Axis.StoppingStatus exactly mean? Summary: Axis_CIPDrive : what does Axis.StoppingStatus exactly mean? I'm wondering what the Axis.StoppingSTatus exactlymean? Does it mean that a 'MAS'-instruction is ongoing? I have regularly the error that a new motion instruction gets launched (f.ex. MAPC,...) when a MAS-stopinstruciton got launched just before. This errors the latest motion instruction with errorcode 78. This means a stopping action was ongoing (MAS) while executing a new motion-instruction. If possible i would like to add a condition before the latest motion instruction (MAPC) so that in case a MAS is ongoing, I do not relaunch it. Potentially a 'XIO Axis.StoppingStatus' could help except i don't find an exact description what this status means. REgards, FV [/INST] Take a look at Rockwell reference manual document: http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/rm/motion-rm003_-en-p.pdf page 76. You are correct, this bit will be true while an MAS is in process, and you can use it in the manner you describe. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Connect GE LIGHT TOWER to my Controllogix 1756-L71 Controller Hello, I want to connect a light tower to my Controllogix 1756-L71 Controller to reflect its current state (Run/Stop/Other?) How can I do that? Does Rockwell have such device? – / 1 [/INST] Hi Liron Ben, From your Infos I can't see what kind of device this is. Does it use 24V DC or 110 V AC or even any kind of Bus to communicate? If it uses directly powered lamps you can do this with a digital output card. You can enter the cards configuration and edit the output states for each channel. You can set one to be on, when the PLC is in program mode but still connected You can set one to be on, when the connection to the plc is lost (communication lost. I think this will be on when the PLC is in stop) And one to be always on from inside your PLC program (The green one I think) You can search for Allen Bradley control tower for the (I think) same device from Rockwell Automation Hi Liron Ben, Rockwell does offer the 856T Control Tower™ Stack Light system in IO-Link enabled versions, which enable you to view current state in real time in your controller easily over IO-Link. Kate n </s>
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<s>[INST] upload application of a VersaView 1200 Summary: upload application of a VersaView 1200 Hi I could help, I need to make a backup of an application that is in a view 1200w versa, what software do I need? What cable do I need? regards!! [/INST] Welcome to the Forum ! You should be more specific on what the application is... software's name, version, Operating System... The more effort you put in writing your posts, the more help you may expect to receive. - fuzzy logic In order to enhance Forum's contributors reputation, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! Thank you! For now do not know the software that was used to develop the application, I guess it's RS View32 or talk Facktory view, the application is on a platform, go up on Monday and wanted to know what software you use computers versa view to come prepared with software and application support. What we want is to see the tags to develop on another platform scada Greetings! n </s>
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<s>[INST] RSLinx creates its own entries that mimic the existing ones I have my IPs configured in the eth driver. RSlinx will add duplicates to thlist withour the firs three octets i.e. 192.168.1.37 gets added as 37. Sniffing the traffic shows that connections are attempted to the Address 0.0.0.37 which of course goes nowhere. I can delete them but they come back, I can delete them, shut down, delete harmony files, startup create a new set of IPs for the driver and they will come back. They are like the numbers that wont die. Anyone seen this and have a suggestion? [/INST] Hi;Need to know which driver...eth ip eth devices etc... what operating system on Computer and service pack level version of RSLinx?? With these can have a better shot at figuring out what is going on. AB_ETH-1running on Server 2003, WinXP and 2000 all up to datenow running 2.54 but was running 2.51 Connecting to PLC5, CompactLogix and ControlLogix, using OPC and ABR drivers all latest versions. The numbers created are not always the same but they all create these extra numberes entries and thay always conincide with the last octet of a PLC5 address. I received a reply from someone moments ago to turn off auto browse and then delete the entries. I did that and so far they have remained deleted but history has shown me that its just a matter of time. Beuller? . . . Beuller? Under DDE/OPC - Options and the General tab, uncheck the Allow RSLogix5 to Create DDE/OPC Topics. Do the same for RSLogix 500 and RSLogix 5000. Then you should be able to delete them. It doesnt create topics - It creates entries in the driver config . Evidently Forum had some auto notify issues and I just got 2 notices today...so no parade or crashing the sports car for me today.. I was trying to look things up in the compatability matrix http://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/rockwellautomation.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=42682knowbase doc 42682 make sure your particular flavors are compatable first. OS Version etcand we see where it goes from there. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Studio5000 crashes if i create a shortcut Summary: Studio5000 crashes when i create a device shortcut in a projectI have just installed Studio5000 (factoryTalk View Studion of Machine Edition 8.20.00 (Release Number 8.20.00 (CPR 9 SR 8)) on a Windows 7 Home Premium PC (8BG RAM, 64bit). Also installed CCW V10.01.00 Standard Edition. I am connected by ethernet to a PanelView Plus 600 and a Micro820. I can communicate and download to both correctly, but i cant add an alias to Studio5000. If I create a new project and try to create a runtime application it builds ok. If I then add a device shortcut in RSLinx Enterprise - Communication Setup (without using or accessing anything - it is still just the new project). Studio5000 crashes when I try to create a runtime application. It freezes after building the graphics elements and then has to be terminated. If i try to restart the application it cant initialise the Rockwell Tag Server service. I have to reboot. I cant create a new project and overwrite an existing one without getting the same crash. If i create a new project with a new name it will create a runtime application ok. If i then add a device shortcut in RSLinx Enterprise - Communication Setup (without adding anything on the displays) and it will no longer create a runtime application. Has anyone else seen this? Is there a way around this? Steve [/INST] is there no pop-up? i know there are cases when creating a runtime, a popup should be shown but is behind an other screen. Alt tab helps. There is no pop-up. The progress dialog appears and shows progress - up until the last graphics display. At that point it freezes and after a short delay a system dialog appears showing Factory Talk Studio has stopped working. I have transferred everything to a Windows 10 Pro system and I still get the same effect. I have attached a capture of the system dialog. please check the log files maybe there are some useful errors logged Probably the FactoryTalk Diagnostics event viewer log or System and Application event viewer log. This is what I get in the event log as stated you probably should contact technical support. You could check and try this. https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/117898 I contacted technical support this morning and they have escalated the problem and I waited all day for a call back. I will call them again first thing tomorrow. The problem was a corruption in the FactoryTalk View MS SQL Server Instance. I could connect to the DB, but not do any operations on it. I had to remove all instances on SQL Server (databases for other apps) and then remove SQL Server itself (in order to remove the non-functioning database), then reinstall everything. n </s>
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<s>[INST] How to take out the activation license from a WinXP crashed PC? The OS is WinXP SP2. We had RSLink classical, RSLogix5000 V17 installed. But now, the WinXP crashed, shown blue screen and can not boot up. Try to go safe mode but still can not boot up. Then I use WinXP disk repair, but failt...And now, I can take out the hard disk use ATA to USB link to other PC. So I can see all files at the HDD at another PC. I want to transfer out the activation from the old HDD, but I don't know how to do it. I try to install FT at another PC and read the old HDD, but can not find out the activation... Please let me know what kind of software I need install and how to operate. Thanks! [/INST] Depends what type of activation you are using FactoryTalk or master disk for FactoryTalk just do a search for *.LIC and copy the file using explore as its only a text file only copying a lic file from another computer wont work on the new one different disk serial number or mac id but would work if it was a dongle activation. If its master disk activation you need the master disk in the computer and run evmove to move it back from the external hard drive to the master disk (floppy) Actually I try to copy the *.LIC file to new PC in the same folder, but still can not see activation and RSLogix5000. Is that I missed some information? As Tech411 mentioned, simply copying the *.LIC file from one computer to another will probably not work because the license code inside that file is created to specifically link the license to the original PC's hardware (either the HDD volume number or the MACID of a network card). The exception to this is when a removable hardware dongle is used as a unique identifier. Because you now have the original *.LIC file on your new computer's hard drive, you are in right position to perform a simple Re-Host procedure. This will delete the original *.LIC file and replace it with a new one that is tied to your new PC's hardware. There are good directions on performing a Re-Host in the Activations portion of the RA Technical Support knowledgebase. http://www.rockwellautomation.com/support/activations.html n </s>
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<s>[INST] Panelview Component to CompactLogix PLC Hello everyone! I need help on how to configure a panelview component (2711c-T6C) to connect to a CompactLogix PLC. We are having problems because we could not see any CompactLogix in the controller selection field of both the serial and ethernet communication settings window. Is there anything we can/should do to make this work? Thanks in advance and your immediate response will be highly appreciated. vincefrom philippines [/INST] Hello Vince, I think you must manually add the device under the specific drivers. Certainly for serial communications. At first we have to remember the PV Component was developed to communicate with MicroLogix and SLC / PLC controllers; so you have some limitations when you try to use it with a Logix family controller. One of the biggest limit is that you can't connect it to a CompactLogix through Ethernet/IP, but only you can communicate serially.Another limitation is related to the fact you have to use Legacy PLC mapping to communicate over serial protocol with a Logix controller. So, in the communication setting window you have to select as controller a PLC-5 or SLC-500 fixed I/O; the same for tag addresses in PVc, you have to use addresses valid for those controllers. Then in RSLogix 5000 you need to Map PLC/SLC Messages using indications in technote 7355. Hope this helps… - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] Does CCW support the logix5563 I am new to CCW, and try to browse the logix5563 through the CCW, but CCW can not recognize Logix 5563. [/INST] Hello, CCW only supports the Micro800 controllers. You need RSLogix 5000 to configure and program a Logix5000 controller. Regards, Fabio Malaspina n </s>
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<s>[INST] Ultra 3000i Tuning Issue Summary: Servo positions correctly has high pitch whine while holding position.I have an MPL-A430H-M servo on an Ultra 3000i Sercos Drive. Motor functions and positions great and has no instability and accurate positioning. In between cycling as it is holding it's position it has a high pitch whine. I have tried to tune this out by tweaking the gains through RS Logix in the Drive parameters. Despite attempting several manual adjustments to both Proportional and Integral Gains the whine persists with no apparent affect. Any suggestions on correcting this issue? [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] Get Firmware version from Controllogix in Rslogix5000 Summary: How to get the firmware version into the rslogix5000-environment.All, I want to get the firmware version nr of the Controllogix controllser L7x/L6x, to show. Is there a way by means of a GSV or Message-instruction to get the actual running firmware version of the controller into the program (rslogix5000)? Regards, FV [/INST] Use the GSV instruction to get the ProductCode attribute of the ControllerDevice object. It's a 2-byte INT datatype, where the low byte contains the Major Revision and the high byte contains the Minor Revision. You can similarly use the ControllerDevice object to read the controller model and serial number. Details are in the GSV /SSV Objects topic in RSLogix 5000 Help. Can we readup the same Firmware info from other modules like 1756-EN2T or 1734-AENT or 1734-IB8S/OB8S ? I checked in the GSV-instruction but did not find anything like this. Frank, you may use a CIP Generic message to the interested module, using instructions as explained inside Aid 23386... this technote will work for any module, not just processors. - fuzzy logic In order to enhance Forum's contributors reputation, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! Hello, Thanks for the answer. I checked some of your comments and it's indeed a 2 byte element as described. The GSV does not have to be with attribute ProductCode but with ProductRev. I checked it in an example (see piciture). I got decimal value 3347 which means for lower byte (=19) and for higher byte (=13). And indeed firmware 19.13 was present in the 1756-L7x Thanks, FV n </s>
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<s>[INST] PowerFlex 40 via Ethernet Hi all. I'm developing a project with several PowerFlex 700 VC's and PowerFlex 40's on Ethernet to a ControlLogix. I'm having to set up datalinks to get a couple of extra parameters read back in. The 700s seemed pretty simple. But on the 40's I can't find where to add the extra datalinks. The Data Format box (in Module Definition) is set to 0 Data Links and is grayed out, so I can't change it. I've looked in the user manuals for the 40 and the 22-Comm-E module and I can't seem to find the info I need. [/INST] Unfortunately, Powerflex 4x has not the possibility to use Datalinks... :smileysad: Only way you have in order to read/write parameter is through Explicit Messaging. Aid 38670 22-COMM-E User Manual - chapter 6 as examples - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] How to effectively manage toolkit Resources. Summary: Activation Best Practices for ToolkitsI was with an SI recently and he asked if Rockwell had any best practises or guideline on the effective management of their toolkit licenses. For instance , they have a 10 seat Toolkit licenses but over the course of projects some engineers may be on the road for prolonged periods of time or laptops may have borrowed licenses. If the laptop is lost or stolen how can the recover or disable those licenses to ensure that they always have their full 10 available. Is there are best practices documents available? Thanks in Advance [/INST] You can rehost a licence. You can contact Rockwell for that. Rehosting means making a used licence available again. Disabling a licence remotely, im not sure about. But it will stop working within a year. n </s>
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<s>[INST] PanelView Backlight CAT. 2711-NL1 Summary: What is the maximum voltage rating?My backlight control circuit in a PanelView 550 is not working. I can operate the backlight (CAT. 2711-NL1) with a DC power supply and vary the voltage. What is the maximum voltage rating for this backlight? [/INST] Here the info: 69743 - PanelView Standard / Enhanced Backlights - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! n </s>
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<s>[INST] SLC 500 cat no 1747 -L30A The PLC is showing CPU fault and on the message display it shows Checksumerror NVRAM. how do i solve the problem???? [/INST] Hmmm... there are too few infos here.... :smileysurprised: Please post also : Status for ALL led on the Cpu... (and also if the led in steady, flashing or off)Message Display type and code. - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] issues with importing database When I import the ASCII text file to a program, to get the documentation, the file size is smaller (in KB). I am us ing RSL500 ver. 7.30.10 CPR9. The original programs were made with ver. 6.00. I have followed the instruction from the site, and don't run into any problems with the import process. Thanks [/INST] I'm not sure I understand the problem. It is importing ok (no errors, everything looks to be there) ... but you're concerned that the file size is smaller? Or is there an error and I'm just not reading the question correctly? (Just trying to understand the problem fully before going any further) JHutch I would suggest exporting the 6.0 tags to a different format. good luck. No problems or errors with the import. I just noticed the file size after the import and realized that instead of being 164KB it was 83KB. Makes me a little nervous. Thanks I will try another format Monday. thanks Well, part of it, too, is that the ASCII format is not efficiently using space. It makes it easier for us humans to look at the file and make sense of it, but the computer could use space much efficiently (and does for the Logix file itself). Chances are, since there was no error, everything came in okay. If you're still nervous, you might try spot checking here and there to make sure everything you expect see is showing up. JHutch I see the same anomaly with the logix 5000 software. To date I have never seen any loss of data, just my confusion on how the file size gets smaller when you add something to it. For example......I open filesize.acd, currently 156kb. I add 2 or 3 rungs, a couple controller tags and some program tags. I then save filesize.acd and it is now 137kb in size. Makes no sense, but everything still works. A compare of the project shows no loss of data. If I recall - the files are compressed (hence why Zipping them rarely helps)Likely, the added data helped it get a better 'fit' in the compression. Or something triggered the file to compact (not sure if there is something to trigger this automatically or not) Refer to the file menu - Compact - I found when doing a lot of indirect address references - the file stays small, but if you touch stuff, it acts like you added the global description to everything under it - and the file size explodes - running Compact usually tightens it up again. If your concerned about loss of data just use the compare utility with the old and new files and see if there is any difference. The smaller file size is normal and natural, and based on a very little-known factoid. The RSS file actually contains two copies of the program, an online image and an offline image. I'm not sure exactly how you went about doing the ASCII import, if that included going to a .SLC file, or if you merely imported the EAS file. But with all that work offline, especially if you did a SaveAs, RSLogix wiped the online image, producing a smaller file size, which was not quite half the original size. Happens with 5, 500, and 5000 all the time. When you go online with the program, and save, the file will bloat back up. Nothing to worry about, but kudos on good observational skills. n </s>
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<s>[INST] writing data from Logix 5000 to SLC 500 I need to write data to a SLC 500 from a Logix 5000. From what I can work out I use the MSG but cannot seem to get anywhere. Can anyone give me a step by step example. All I need is to activate one bit in the SLC for an alarm. Thank you [/INST] What about the network type do you want to use ? :smileywink: - fuzzy logic Sorry they are on a TCP/IP network. I am not bothered wether the 5000 writes to the 500 or the 500 reads. Mark, I suggest to read technote 20043 and 43408...there are procedures and suggestions... You need to a have a valid TechConnect Authorization to access these notes... Otherwise, send me a Private Message here in the Forum with your e-mail address, I'll send you back some infos... Hope this helps… - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] PowerFlex 700 base 3 Stay In precharge Summary: what it is hardware damage or softwareDrive PowerFlex 700 - 20BD065a Show 0 volts in monitoring DC Bus Voltage Parameter 12, but 649V is present on DC bus, please help figure out where from parameter 12 comes and if any fix for this problem? [/INST] I believe the voltage feedback board is faulty, once it is replaced the drive will function normally in this regard. Take a look. http://forums.rockwellautomation.com/posts/63373b70d0 n </s>
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<s>[INST] Powerflex 40 run and speed reference control I want the following functionality with a PF40 drive. There is an external HOA switch and an external relay. When the HOA switch is in HAND, the relay is energized.When the HOA switch is in AUTO, the relay is controlled by separate process controller.I can just connect a NO contact from the relay to digital input 2 and a jumper to digital input 1. Then the drive will get a valid run command in HAND or in AUTO if the relay is energized. That is pretty straighforward. I am a little uncertain about the speed reference.In HAND, I want the HIM keypad to be the speed reference, but not the run reference. That should still be DI2.In AUTO, I want analog input 1 to be the speed reference (0-10vdc). DI2 will still be the run reference. I think I can do this by setting PO42 to 3, and a digital input to 2, auto mode, and turning that input on with a contact on my HOA switch.When the DI set to 2 is on, the drive will follow the analog input and when it is off the drive will follow the HIM speed reference. Is this correct? [/INST] Yes, it is correct, your needs are described in the following page, taken from the User Manual: Just a clarification: this is for PF400, the PF40 has not this settings available.... :smileysurprised: - fuzzy logic Thanks very much for the quick response. And the drive is, in fact, a PF400, not 40. My bad. In the description of the function you included in your answer, and in the description of the digital input setting 2, it's not 100% clear what mode you are in when the digital input is NOT active. I quote: forces drive into auto control mode. It doesn't say what happens when the input is NOT active. Apparently, the only other choice is manual mode. Also, I would prefer that the AUTO key on the keypad not do anything. That is, I want my user to select AUTO and MANUAL by using the selector switch only. Allowing them to use the AUTO key on the keypad opens up the possiblity of a combination of actions that leaves them thinking they are in AUTO when, in fact, they are not. It says under the Auto Mode column, that pressing the AUTO key will put the drive in Manual mode. Does the key override the digital input? Can this be avoided? Hmmm.... really difficult for me to understand just from manual this time (I've not a PF400 here for testing).... The only setting that disables the keypad is P42 = 0 No Function, but in that case you will not have the possibility to work in manual mode giving the speed reference from the Keypad... and if you try to use the Local function from a Digital Input, both Start control and Speed Reference come from the keypad... Huh, I see no way... :smileysurprised: - fuzzy logic OK. I'll just have to train 'em a bit. Thanks. n </s>
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<s>[INST] PlantPAx 5 Instruction raP_Opr_EMGen Hello, I am looking for some further documentation for on the PlantPAx process instruction raP_Opr_EMGen (Generic Equipment Module). I have found some documentation for the instruction in Rockwell publication PROCES-RM200C-EN-P (pages 267-280), but it doesn't explain in detail how the instruction works. I have also looked at the example routines in the PlantPAx library download which were somewhat helpful, but not exactly an explanation. As an example of what I mean we can look at the example code provided by Rockwell. In this image a state change is triggered by a Program State Request (EM.Sts_Rqst.X) but I don't know what triggers the request. By the description I would guess the PCmd parameter, but the description of the PCmd parameter is Program command to State and that doesn't sound like a request. It might be the OCmd or both the OCmd and PCmd. Basically, I don't find it clear what the logical relationship is between several of the input, output, and status parameters, and there doesn't seem to be any documentation explaining it. I'm guessing the basic concept goes something like this: Set Inp_Rdy bit for desired state (logic external to instruction) PCmd or OCmd triggers Sts_Rqst (logic internal to instruction) Use Sts_Rqst to trigger some state logic (logic external to instruction) After external state logic has run, set the Inp_St to the requested state (logic external to instruction). Still, this is just my educated guess, and without trial and error experimentation I cannot be sure. Ideally, I would like to know if anyone knows of further reference material for this instruction that explains these uncertainties. Primarily these parameters: Inp_St Inp_RdyOk Inp_RdyOkProg PCmd Sts Sts_Rqst Sts_eCmd Sts_Req XRdy XRdy_State [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] I have some HMI screens in FactoryLink and I would like to convert the files to be able to open them from FactoryTalk View. How can I do it ? [/INST] Unfortunately, the only method I am aware of is the old fashioned, brute-force method of re-engineering each screen in the new system. As part of a small team, we replaced a FactoryLink system with PlantPAx and ViewSE about 9 years ago and it was a manual process.n We took the opportunity to modernize the controller applications and get the operational benefits out of PlantPAx by rewriting the entire application. We used the PlantPAx engineering tools to reduce some of our development time on the controller side but the screen work was all manual.n </s>
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<s>[INST] FT View SE New Alarms and Events objects I need some clairification on the new Alarms and Events Objects versus the old alarming setup. I have spoke with several Rockwell employee's about how good the idea is and I get mixed answers. I was told that the Alarms and Events type of alarming is better because it moves the alarming away from the HMI and back to the controller, where the alarms are located. I have also been told that it puts a large strain on the controller. I think the alarms should be handled in the conroller, but not at the expense of the performance. I have a large program running on a ControlLogic processor with 3 remote 17 slot racks. The SE Alarming is horrible and I like the option, but how do I know what it will do to my system if I move the alarming over to the Controller? [/INST] Down and down the list I go, where I'll stop noboby knows... From what little I've learned about the new alarms and events, under MOST circumstances, overall performance will often be better. But, you *are* moving the bulk of the work from the SE app to the CL processor. If your processor is already working pretty hard, it may be a problem. Unfortunately, I just don't have enough experience with it to make an educated guess as to the impact. If you go to Ask a Question, you'll at least be sure to get it in front of the eyes of the product experts. JHutch The FT Alarms and Events objects in View SE can be used even if you decide not to use the ALMA and ALMD instructions in the controller. Many times the control code is set (or done by somebody else) and you won't be able to get them to go through the code to implement new alarm instructions. However, the banner/summary objects - along with built-in alarm history - make the View objects a huge improvement over the existing HMI Tag Alarm summary object. If you would like to take advantage of the A&E objects in View without moving to ALMA and ALMD instructionsj ust yet, you can add a Tag-Based Alarm and Event Server to your project and configure your digital and analog polled alarms there. Technote 45583 in the Knowledgebase contains a tool that will convert existing traditional HMI Alarms to Tag-Based A&E alarms. This doesn't really answer your question about performance, but you can start working with the new alarm object in View before making the commitment to ALMA and ALMD. Hope this helps! If I go and convert with the conversion tool to the A&E Events banner type of alarming, am I committed to using it or will the old alarm summary work as well as the A&E banner. The old alarm summary knows nothing of the new Alarms and Events. You would have to use the new summary. True, they know nothing of each other. But converting doesn't delete the existing HMI alarms. They are never deleted unless you delete them. So if you convert using the conversion tool and import the resulting files to your application, you will essentially have 2 copies of your alarms. 1 copy is the traditional HMI alarming with the traditional alarm summary. The 2nd copy are the Tag-Based A&E alarms using the new alarm summary. They can work together in the same application as long as you use both summary objects. To disable traditional HMI alarming, use the AlarmOff command or just don't start it when the app starts. Thanks for the pointer!:smileywink: n </s>
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<s>[INST] Server Certificate on GuardLogix 5380 Is there a method that exists to acquire the service certificate that is generated on the PLC at boot time? I need the certificate to decrypt the CIP stream, and it doesn't appear to be available in the GUI. [/INST] Hello Don, Can you please clarify what you are trying to accomplish here? I'm not completely sure what you mean by 'service certificate' or 'CIP stream'. Looking through our Knowledgebase and some user manuals and programming manuals this document is the closest I can find, but I don't think this quite answers your question: 1756-PM020 Best Regards, David Geck Hello Don I do agree with David Geck , we need more details on what you need and try to do. Are you talking about the Safety Signature, The CIP Safety protocol...??? regards n </s>
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<s>[INST] E91 Watchdog Timer Error on Kinetix 300 I have a couple of MPL motors setup (using Modified code from the Rockwell Sample code SMC_ENETIP_ML1400_K300_2AXIS_V1_0.rss) It works great, Micrologix 1400 1766-L32AWAA Kinetix 300 2097-V34PR3 >>>> MPL-B310P-MJ72AA Kinetix 300 2097-V34PR6 >>>> MPL-B4560F-MJ72AA Now I want to setup another machine, but I want to use different IP address. I changed String: ST199:0 From 192.168.1.5 to 192.168.3.229 ST199:1 From 192.168.1.6 to 192.168.3.230 ST199:2 From 192.168.1.7 to 192.168.3.231 Once I do this the RIX201 Tables seem to populate with all of the correct IP addresses. I think that I have changed everything correctly, but I keep getting an Error on the Kinetix drive: The Error that I get is: E91 user watchdog has timed out. I get the error on both drives, and when I log onto the drives using the MotionView software, I can't clear the Error Any suggestions on where to look? [/INST] I think that the problem was in my PLC File. We found out that N197:11 had a value of 408 , and N197:23 also had a 408 value. Those integer files are supposed to toggle on and off from 0 to 1 so that the controller knows that it has communication. I manually entered in a value of 1 and then they started going back and forth from 1 to 0 and the E91 error went away. Hi, I just got the same error. I am also using the sample from the Connected Components Building Blocks. After a firmware upgrade the E91 occur. After found your post I just clear the N197:11 and the Watchdog restart to flash. I could not find the reason why N197:11 is loading a strange value. In my case 20800 was in the N197:11. I include a clear on a first scan to that address. Thanks for your post. Daniel Giraldi Sorry to hear that you had problems too, but then again glad that I wasn't alone. Funny thing is , I went back and checked on my original program that has been running for Months, and the N197:11 value was switchng back and forth between 408, and 409. I reset it to 1 Maybe I'll do a first scan clear like you. It all seems good now. Good Luck n </s>
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<s>[INST] Printing in Panelview plus Hi, I want to know if there is any printing option available with panelview 600 plus. I have a printer port inbuilt with that, but dont know how to configure the printer settings in Rsview studio. Could anyone please help me in this regard Regards,SenthilKumar [/INST] You can print graphic displays at run time using the display print button or using a remote display print. You can also send diagnostics and alarm messages to a printer at run time. Please take a look to the View ME User Guide (part 1 page 2-15 for a summary of print possibilities - and part 2) Settings in Panelview Plus through the Print Options explained in the PVP User Manual - page 91 Hope this helps… - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] PlantPAX Excel Tools in the PlantPAX tools provided in the Process Library v4.10.05 there are excel files and I miss a reference to OPC DA Automation Wrapper 2.02 but i can't find it anywhere .Can someone help me? [/INST] Hi Matieu Bergeron, To use OPC DA Automation Wrapper you need a working OPC Server. As an example this is included in a RSLinx Classic Installation with at least the OEM License Type. The OPC DA Automation Wrapper will then be installed along with it. (Beginning at Version 2.55 an higher. Before it was RsiOpcAuto.dll or RSLinxOPCAuto.dll) Check this Knowledgebase Article: QA376 - RSLinx OPC Automation Interface Please consider that a TechConnect contract is required to access the above technote. If you have already installed an OPC Server you may only need to reactivate the Excel Reference Link because your system path differs from the Originators PC. You can find the .dll at C:WindowsSystem32OPCDAAuto.dll or your respective System path. Please get in touch if you have any further questions. If this answer helped you, please Like. If this answer is the best please REPLY-> Make Best Answer n </s>
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<s>[INST] 1756-ENBT as Ethernet Bridge Summary: How to save bridged addresses?It is possible to configure 1756-ENBT as a bridge in RSLinx software for remote access to devices after the bridge card. But, if we configure 1756-ENBT card as an ethernet bridge the bridged IP addresses are not stored in the driver configuration. Therefore they are not backed up when using the RSLinx Backup and Restore utility. Is this any other way to save bridged addresse s and restore them later or on other computer? I used such configuration for remote access by AssetCentre, but every changes in bridge configurations I have to manualy update on each AssetCentre Agent computer. It is difficult to maintain all RSLinx configurations synchronized. Any suggestions? [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] Code 3, Type 16 error on start up - Kinetix 6K Sercos I am working on getting a new system up and running and I am having a few problems. I beleive once the first problem is fixed the other will go away. When the main circuit breaker is disconnected the PLC has a major fault on start up. The fault is a code 3, type 16. The fault is with the sercos module and the help file says to check electronic keying. The revisions do match. I even tried to disable the keying and this made no difference. Firmware in processor and sercos card match. I have tried to even re-flash each. The next problem is that I am having one of the four servos loose its position on start up. It goes to around -19,000 for a position on start up when it was at a position of 2. I do an absolute home with the all the servos and the absolute reference bit is staying set through the process. L61 with 4 Kinetix 6000 drives. Once the major fault is clear all works well untill main power is cycled. I was on the phone with tech connect this morning and no luck. Perhaps someone here has seen this problem before. [/INST] Duplicated thread, the original one is HERE. :smileywink: - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] torque current Gidday. How can i relate the torque current to mechanical torque available at the motor shaft ? Cheers [/INST] it is approximate. you should have some parameters torque demand, or actual torque those would be pretty close to the torque at the shaft of the motor.... this would be 0 to 100%, it is proportional to 0 to Full Torque of the motor at base speed... if you are trying to do an application that requires torque control or driving to a specific torque you should reword the question to be more detailed. Gidday Drive Guy.Thanks very much for your response.We are not controlling to torque, but rather trending the torque current to understand the loading on a series of scrapers in a settling tank in order to optimise settled solids removal.I would like to use the torque load to control the flow rate out of the tank. Cheers Mate which drive are you using? Powerflex 700's Hi. I have an inverter PoweFlex 750. I need to know in my PLC the mechanical torque feedback at the motor shaft. Now I get the parameter Torque Cur Fdbk (Torque Current Feedback) from drive, but it is in Amps units. Do you know how could I convert the Torque Cur Fdbk value to a percent of the motor total torque. I dont know wich value of torque current represents the 100%, whether the drive rated Amps or the motor Amps, or maybe another one. I would appreciate your answers. Drives are set up based on the nameplate data of the motor they are running. In order to find out what 100% load is on a motor, you will need to get the motor technical data specifications which should list that information. Drives put out current which translates to torque, but the motor is what determines how much torque there is. Thanks for your reply BuckeyeKMH. I have one more question. Is the parameter Torque Cur Fdbk the current measured at the drive output(motor side) or at the drive input.? I know what 100% load is on the motor(318Amps). Should I assume that when Torque Cur Fdbk reach that value(318Amps) I should have 100% torque.? Cheers Leandro, The torque current is a component of the total current which the drive outputs to the motor. The RMS current on the motor has 2 components, the magnetizing and torque current, which are at an angle to eachother and are vector summed together. Motors are rated at full load for the TOTAL current, so if you know 100% load is 318 amps then you should check the total current parameter not the torque current. BuckeyeKMH Thanks again for your reply. I will calculate the motor torque full load current and use the torque current parameters to get the actual mechanical torque. Its clear now. Cheers Not so clear for me yet. Are you saying that the torque at the motor shaft is calculated from RMS current on the motor minus torque current? Knowing the full load current then will allow you to calculate the % of torque? Thanks The motor torque is calculated from torque current. Then you have: torque current = motor full load current x motor power factor x motor efficiency That torque current value represents the 100% torque at the motor shaft. Regards IN A PF7K THE SPEED OF THE MOTOR IS ALL TIME 110% OF DE NOMINAL, WHAT HAPPEN IN THE TORQUE, MOTOR AND DRIVE. H. RIOS n </s>
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<s>[INST] PowerFlex 40P Downgrade Summary: downgrade from 3.01 to 2.01Hello, we want to downgrade a drive PowerFlex 40P from Firmware 3.01 to 2.01. Our machines are using drives with 2.01. Last Time a 40P was defect we installed a drive with 3.01. After that we had massive problems in cause of the mismatch from firmware. We tried to disable Keying-> didn't work. We are using ControlFlash. Is it possible to downgrade? [/INST] According to this knowledgebase article: https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/42454/page/1 Users like us cannot change the firmware of Powerflex 40P drives. You have to send the drive back to Rockwell to have it changed, or hire Rockwell to come on site to do it for you. Sorry, you're out of luck there. You're going to have to figure out ways around the changes caused by the firmware. What processor is choking on the changed firmware? The processor is 1756-L62S ControlLogix5562 Saftety Controller Would you please describe the problems you had because of the mismatch? I cannot see anything immediately obvious when I put a PF40P-E into a Logix tree and switch between firmware 2.01 and 3.01. I've put PF40P-E version 2 and 3, along with the 1756-L62S V16 and V20, along with 1756-EN2T in several flavors into Rockwell's product compatibility and download center. There are some firmware incompatibilities between the 1756 modules, but NOTHING is supposedly incompatible with the drives. I am making the assumption you're using Ethernet/IP to communicate to the 40P, that it has a 20-COMM-E card installed. Are you sure the new drive was properly configured in the IO tree and the new drive itself was configured properly? Does the drive show up as a yellow ? in the IO tree? That's an indication that you need to update the Add-On Profile on your computer. Looking at the release notes for PF40P, it says that the release changed the way analog input scaling happens when the minimum frequency is change, that parameter E239 / P038 behavior changed. If your code affects those two areas, that may explain why the drive does not behave the same as the version 2 drive. I would look closely at the configuration of the drive in the IO tree and the drive parameters, including the comm card. Yes, we are using 20-COMM-E for Ethernet/IP Seems to me the configuration is right, its not yellow in the IO tree. And sure, we got the drive running, but the very disturbing thing is.... Normally we replace the broken drive and then we Correlate Drive, then download the parameter from RSLogix and it works. But now we need to change the revision and get this message. These changes will cause module data types and properties change. Data will be set to default values unless it can be recovered from existing module properties. Verify module properties before Applying changes. Change module definition? When we choose Yes, RSLogix starts to change anything. Sets the CPU to Stop, we set to Run. All the data of the goods the machine is working with are gone. So this is our course of action. It takes much longer than stay by the same revision. Any idea? Ideas: Always, ALWAYS, have a working backup before touching the IO tree. I've encountered the change module definition? behavior often; this is standard Rockwell software behavior prior to V24. There is not much you can do besides verifying the program's drive parameters against the working backup you should always have. Behavior has gotten better with V28 and above; I've not lost configuration data within Logix since that version. I dont know whether i understand you right. Sure we always save the working version. But that doesn´t prevent us from the change of the module definition. .Is ther a newer version of RSLogix5000 than our V20? Can't find anything. You need the working backup for comparison when Rockwell software eats your parameters. Ok, i understand. Thank you very much for your help. Kind regards Patrick n </s>
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<s>[INST] Motion Control On Standard toshiba AC drives Summary: is it possible to control a standard ac drive using motion commandsMy goal is to use a compactlogix platform to create a master/slave setup using 2 toshiba G9 drives. Does anyone know if this is possible. i would like to use the motion instructions to control the drives speed outputs. i will be using a multi-turn absolute encoder on each motor the drives control. my thoughts are to use virtual axis in the program and map the output to the drives speed commands. [/INST] Compact Analog I/O is pretty slow, this would be my concern with trying to do this. All depends how tight you need the control to be. I've done things like this without using motion instructions, and it all comes down to how much precision you need and how much lag(and error) you can tolerate. What happens if they get out of sync? Is this a vertical application with brakes or horizontal? Or is it material handling? Really hard to give a general answer. i do have ethernet communications to the drives and can write the drive speed.the application is a horizontal chain conveyor and is moving pretty slow. the chain has hooks like chicken plant lines if you are familiar with those. when i say slow i mean the chain moves max of 12 feet a minute. my hope was to be able to use motion instructions instead of lots of logic. thanks I think you could do it via the motion instructions, but it might be simpler to roll your own-define one as the master, and have the slave run at feedback master speed+/-proportional error factor. With motion, you will need to write all the motion handling logic, plus constantly redefine the virtual axis positions to be equal to the encoder positions(unless using CIP encoders that are treated as an axis). I'd try and define the app using the encoders you have; that will be the hard part. If you can get the encoders into the motion commands, the speed to the drives is easy, and it sounds like the performance will not be a problem for you. i actually dont have any encoders yet so i could do cip encoders. are they pretty reliable? the reason i wanted to use motion instructions was so i could electronically gear one to the other 1:1. my thought was it would automatically handle any position errors from there. is this mistaken? CIP Encoders are probably the easiest to get into Contrologix. I've used a few, no issues, but only done low speed for them. The motion instructions will do the master/slave correct as you think. But....it will probably take a bunch more motion instructions than you think to get this working. (Not just a MAG instruction). The trick will be in the position loop control-because the encoder and motor connection will not be direct, you will get errors. so it would probably be better just to use the encoders as feedback and do my own logic instead of using motion instructions? is there an easy way to do master/slave without motion? maybe some sample code somewhere to use as a starting point? Master drive control: Run at x speed(to position? to limit switch? ) Abort if master position-slave position>max_error Slave drive control: Run at master feedback speed*1.1*(master_position-slave_position). abort if error>max_error I'd personally do it by writting an add-on for the drive control, so I can pass in fwd/rev/speed/fault reset, and get back speed, error status, etc. Then you need some different phases (calibrate/setup, alignment, manual, automatic) in which the first two allow independent control, and the last two are syncronized. Set the drives to use very aggressive accel/decel ramps, and do the ramp via logic(another add-on works well for this). that makes sense. is there some sample code i could get somewhere to start? the AOI would be fairly easy to accomplish. n </s>
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<s>[INST] I need help to add a timer lcd to my panel there is a pump that should be working 10 minutes, I want to add a counter as a timer to the panel if counter enabled should count 1 I use an RTO timer to count 1 sec then I use a counter to count minutes, the time counter has done counting, its need to enable output to show at the counter LCD this process works till 10 minutes When I parallel output with reset timer, the counter is not counting [/INST] Hi Majid Jamshid, Could you please add a Image with your Code so we can see what you are doing. I'm not sure if I understood the Problem. If I understood you right, I would program like this: I would use a RTO or TON Instruction with the whole 10 minutes as Preset (=600 000 milliseconds). And use the Accum to show the time, the Timer is already running. To us the Accum to show the time you will need some kind of conversion. Remember, Accum is in milliseconds so you need to divide by 1000 to get total seconds passed. Use the Divide Instruction (DIV) with MyTimer.ACC as Source A and 1000 as Source B to get total seconds passed then Use the Divide Instruction (DIV) with total seconds passed as Source A and 60 as Source B to get Minutes passed and Use the Modulo Instruction with total seconds passed as Source A and 60 as Source B to get Seconds of this Minute passed. (All these values need to be INT or DINT to work like I described.) On you panel you can show the two Values Minutes passed and Seconds of this Minute passed. The Pump Output would be energized, as long as the Timer is running and not done. Looks like this in Ladder XIC(MyTimer.EN) XIO(MyTimer.DN) OTE(PumpOutput); RTO or TON? You can use RTO if you want to return to count the Time, if the Pump is stopped, before the 10 minutes are done. Like 4 Minutes are done, some fault happens and the Pump stops and after the fault is repaired the pump starts again for 6 Minutes. The RTO Instruction needs to be reset by some kind of logic. If you don't want it like this, you should use a TON Instruction. The TON Instruction resets itself after the Rung In Condition is false. In the same example the Pump would run 4 minutes and after the repair it would run for 10 minutes because it starts counting at 0. I you have an input field where someone enters the destination time in Minutes you will need to convert this value into milliseconds and move it into the Timer Instruction. Like MUL(InputField,60000,MyTimer.Pre); If this answer helped please Like and/or make this Answer the best answer (REPLY-> Make Best Answer) Yes Thank you so much for your clear answer Please see attached file Hi Majid Jamshid, Now I can understand your problem a little bit better. But just to be sure: -The Signal to Start the Pump (here B3:0.3) is not set or reset by the timer (as far as I can see) -The Output O:0.3 adds 1 to the LCD and you want to use the LCD to show your Minutes. -The Output O:0.2 resets the LCD back to Zero. If this is right, my answer is not 100%. You can use the Set Up from my last Message until the Point where Minutes passed is created (or Seconds of this Minute passed if you want to show the Time passed on a HMI). After this you would need two new Rungs: 1. Compare Minutes passed with a new DINT Minutes passed last Scan with a GRT (Greater) Instruction and if Minutes passed is greater you activate the Output. 2. Move Minutes passed to Minutes passed last Scan so you can compare in the next scan. I would not use a Timer like you did. This is not an accurate way to measure time. Your PLCs Scan time will influence the accuracy. An example: the Timer is done, when its ACC is Greater or Equal to its PRE. If your PLCs Scan time is something like 20ms it can happen, that your timer is scanned at 999ms and is not done and then at the next scan at an ACC ~1019. So at 19ms to late. If this happens often you can loose up to 60*19=1140ms in one Minute. Now imagine your PLCs Scan time is even greater or you want to copy this Code to a PLC with a different Scan Time your Code will behave different all the time. An different approach to your Problem (if you don't want to use the timer with 10 Minutes as PRE) you can use the PLCs internal Clock. You can use a GSV Instruction to get the WallClockTime and then create a Trigger, every time the second changes. With this Trigger you can feed your counter. You could even use an ADD Instruction, because the Trigger should only be active for one Scan. I hope I could help you. If there is still something missing or I understood something wrong please tell me. Hi GRO, thanks for your efforts in trying to help users, here on Engage! Please notice that you're writing under the assumption the user is working with a Logix controller, which is not. As you can see from the user's screenshot, it is using RSlogix500 as programming software, I guess for a SLC500 controller. So some of your suggestions should be differently addressed, and some cannot be applied at all. Hope this helps, fuzzy logic Please don't forget to use the LIKE button and highlight the decisive answer : REPLY > Make Best Answer Hi fuzzy logic, I'm very sorry. I never used RSLogix500 so I didn't recognize it. It's like the Hammer and the Nail problem. For me everything is RSLogix5K and so are my answers. Please feel free to correct my wrong suggestions. Please explain what you mean by When I parallel output with reset timer, the counter is not counting. What problem do you see? I think you can code this a bit more efficiently. Use a 1-minute timer, and use the DN bit to increment both the LCD timer and the C5:20 timer. The C5:20 counter isn't needed to operate the LCD timer, but it might be useful within the program to count the 10 minute period. In your rung 2, there is no need to check the C5:20.ACC; the DN flag already means that the ACC has reached the PRE. Your rung 3 resets the LCD to zero if the pump stops, but it doesn't reset the C5:20 counter. So they will be out of step. If you are resetting the LCD count when the pump stops, there is not much point in using a retentive timer in rung 1. My example uses a TON, and the DN bit is used to restart the timing. As GRO wrote, there is nothing to stop the pump in this section of code. I assume you are doing it elsewhere. If the count is supposed to stop the pump after 10 minutes, then you need to use the C5:20/DN bit to reset B3:0/3. I hope this helps. If you can explain in a bit more detail, then maybe we can help more. Here is my version of your code. (Note that my outputs are 0:1 rather than O:0 because of the processor I am using.) Thank you so much for your prompt answer, when I am talking about parallel output with rest timer means: I don't have a timer device, I have a counter, when you enable the counter will count 1, then again when you enable its count 2 I am trying to use the counter as a timer LCD which means I have to program my PLC every 1 minute enable the counter until 10 then reset the timer the center has 2 wires, 1 for count, 1 for reset. ( the reset wire is easy when the operator select off mode the counter will reset) now inside the program, I need to enable and reset the timer and counter, I need to parallel output with my reset timer when counter enabled, then, the timer reset and start to cycle the process this process will end till 10 the problem is when I use to reset the timer with output counter parallel The timer rest but counter won't cont Do I understand you correctly? On your rung 2, the timer resets to zero and the T4:8 restarts, but C5:20.ACC stays at 0 and never counts from 1 to 10. I haven't got a processor to test this, but here is what I think might be going wrong. It's possible that the T4:8/DN is not set long enough for the CTU to see the transition from false to true. The help file for the CTU instruction says, the on and off duration of an incoming signal must not be faster than the scan time. You are resetting the timer DN flag on the same scan as it is set. T4:8/DN is 0 at the start of the scan and zero at the end of the scan. It is only 1 for the tiny bit of the scan between the end of rung and the RES at rung 2, so this is faster than the scan time. Try this: Change the RTO on rung 1 to a TON. Use XIO T4:8/DN before the TON T4:8 instruction, as shown in my example rung 1. Delete RES 4:8 instruction from rung 2. This will cause T4:8/DN to be on for a whole scan and that should be enough to operate the counter. n </s>
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<s>[INST] FTView Alarm Historian issue Summary: Automatically starts on startup, fills log w/ errors?This is a weird, probably simple issue that I just can't nail down. I first noticed a problem when I had SE open working on my app. I noticed in the Diagnostics List at the bottom were 2 errors constantly recurring: Unable to initialize Alarm Historian, Alarm server RNA://$Local/<old app name>/tagAandE is unhealthy Unable to log alarm and event data. The database definition for the server RNA://$Local/<old app name>/tagAandE can not be found. (Database definition identifier: <blah blah>) <old app name> is an app that resides on this computer, but has nothing to do with the current one I'm editing. So, I right-clicked the RSLinx Enterprise server in the Explorer, went to Alarms and Events tab, and made sure boxes were unchecked (to disable alarm and events support) Now the other part of this, I noticed my computer repeatedly toggling the hourglass, so I thought it was related. If I go into services and stop the Rockwell Alarm Server service, it stops. As soon as I reboot, problem is back again. I'm about to pull my hair out trying to see where this is getting turned on at. I've switched the Rockwell Alarm Historian and Alarm Server to manual startup, so I know something is turning them on. And why it's apparently looking to use this old app's database is beyond me. [/INST] The errors you got are usually related to the fact that Alarm and Event history was enabled, but no database definition was selected. Be careful to the kind of A&E server you're dealing with... the errors descriptions are related to the Tag Alarm & Events server, not RSlinx Enterprise (device-based A&E). So, I guess the <old app name> project does have a Tag Alarm and Event server defined with the history enabled, without a database defined. Also, about the hourglass, it usually happen when the A&E server has the Startup type defined to Load when operating system initializes... changing it to When first client connects will solve the particular behavior. I strongly suggest to read the following manual, to better understand the two different types of A&E servers, and also how their settings could impact on your system. http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/rm/ftae-rm001_-en-e.pdf - fuzzy logic In order to enhance Forum's contributors reputation, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! How I haven't ended up finding that manual before now is beyond me. I've come across several articles here about the differences of the types of alarm services, but the water was still muddy, so thanks. As you said, Load when operating system initializes was selected in this app. I have never even used this app (using old boss's computer), so I suppose my next quest is to find out what happened to that database that it was searching for...not that I need it anymore...curiosity always gets me... Many thanks! n </s>
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<s>[INST] SLC500 (1747-L552 Controller) test and downloading software EDIT: added reference to the original discussion, of which this one is a continuation, and corrected typos -FL Thanks Amelio for you reply HERE! I have another question. I have a spare 1747-L552 Processor. I am using this one for my learning process. I got it connected using the 1747-CP3 cable. He has an Ethernet and IP address already set up. I created a small program with the RSLogix 500 and I want to use with this processor. Questions: What is the best way to start a new program? Do I have to have the communication controller? Thanks [/INST] Under file select new, choose same processor and OS as your test unit. It has built in com port so no other communication card needed. I'm moving this thread to Legacy, where it is better suited. If you are not already a member of the Legacy community and want to continue this conversation, you will be prompted to join that community. Thank you, fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer n </s>
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<s>[INST] Missing tags in FTV tag browser Hello everyone, I' ve noticed that some of tags are missing in the online folder of tag browser. Missing tags are not new, they are on the same scope and have the same properties like some other tags which are present in the tag browser. There are warnings in the FT Diagnostics Viewer related to these missing tags: .. is unresolved in the processor on route ControlLogix in slot x of the chassis at addressIP. There is no problem with these missing tags in the online folder of RSLinx Remote OPC Server. Project of the FT View SE is also not new and there were no problems with tags browser before. Recently I upgraded FactoryTalk software to v13. After the upgrade I had to create new Device Shortcuts in the project. Maybe some of you have an idea how to fix it? Best regards, Krzysztof [/INST] Hi Krzysztof, my suggestion here is to apply latest patch rollup from the following technote: QA49264 After that one, please apply also the newest patch from the following technote: BF27932 This last one is related to a known communication issue identified in the last release of FactoryTalk Linx, as explained HERE. Hope this helps, fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer The latest patch rollup I had already installed. The patch related to communication issue helped. Thanks a lot fuzzy logic. Good to know, I'm happy for that. You're very welcome! fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer n </s>
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<s>[INST] SQI - user friendly Summary: how to simply check status of SQI in RSLogix5000 Hi, I am familiar with RS Logix 500 and commonly use SQC and SQO instruction. Now when I start use CompacLogix I thought I will again use SQI and SQO instruction. But I miss Display special function. That function shows source and request status of each step in user friendly table where I was able to find which bit is missing. I am wonder if similar function exists in RSLogix 5000 as well? Otherwise is SQI useless. Thanks [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] F4 fault Summary: powerflex 4M series fault F4 hello, anyone ever experienced f4 fault on 4M series ? The manual says plus/minus %10 devitation in supply voltage is acceptable. Measured AC supply voltage with an power quality analyzer and never found values less than 375 V. Wiring is carried out with shielded cable between drive and motor end, shield are connected to gnd as shown in manual. Any suggestions ? thank you [/INST] This problem has not been fixed. There are six drives installed in the same cabinet . Each drive has a an overload breaker on the power input side . the breaker inputs are tied with three phase a copper bus . The incoming three phase from the main cabinet breaker is also connected to breaker inputs. I have seen that when this problem occurs the voltage on the main breaker goes down, but only in this cabinet. There are other cabinet for other machines which do not see any drop in voltage. So the voltage drop is not caused by the network. Somehow voltage is pulled down in the drives cabinet, What might be the reason? I have meggered all the motors and found Ok. Could it be one drive with a defective rectifying circuit or capacitor? Permissible AC range is 342 to 528 VAC. Did the drives fault with F4 when you had the power monitor attached? If they DID fault with the power monitor attached and it reported line in was 375 or higher, then you should probably replace the drives. If they did NOT fault while the power monitor was attached, you have not found the problem. Leave the power monitor attached until one or more drives fault with F4. Note that you will get F4 faults if you turn off the power to the drive - this is normal. The picture you included shows a manufacture date of August 2012. Do all of the drives have this same date? Do the drives that are faulting with F4 have this date, and drives that do not fault have a different date? Hello Thanks for replying. Please find attached video. They all have the same mfd. date. That is not a power monitor; it's a multimeter. Normally, they don't react very fast, but your video quite clearly shows that you had a substantial power loss at 25 seconds into the video. At 27 seconds, your multimeter shows a voltage of 309V. This is well below the permissible voltage shown right on the VFD data plate. This is NOT a drive problem. Your video shows only a portion of the cabinet, so there's not much more we can do to help; we need more information. What other loads are part of this machine? We can see 3 VFDs. Two are running (20 hz, and 58hz, it looks like), while the third on the right is not running during the video. What feature of the machine turns on right at 25 seconds? Is there some large load that shares this machine's feeder circuit (say, a large compressor)? Hello, This machine is for egg processing . Basically includes mixer motors and pumps. Nominal voltage is 3 phase 380V AC, 50Hz. There is a delta -wye, 380V/380V, 30kVA isolation transformer between drives panel and the feeder. Three out of seven drives have speed1 and and speed2 via digital inputs. Acc. time are 15 seconds. Should be OK. At the beginning i also thought that the voltage drop might be caused by an external event, such as sudden swithing of another heavy load which could share the same feeder (could be a large compressor etc.) and investigate the feeder of this machine. I discovered that there are AC units with compressors, but they are not on the same feeder of the drives. Then i mesaured the feeder voltage where this machine is powered up ( it's a power distribution panel ) to see any external reason that triggers this event. But found all okay. As you pointed out it drops to as low as 309V and it takes around several 100 ms, and side effects of this should be observed on the other loads, such as dimmed lights of the plant, interestingly not. The feeder panel voltage does not drop when we have the voltage drop in the drives panel. That's why i was thinking of defected drives or motors. This voltage drop only takes place in the drives cabinet. The new video is attached. Your line-in voltage is low. The drives are rated 380-480 line-in. Your multimeter is showing 367V. This is not helping at all. This is even lower than your first video. Is the voltage equal on all three legs? Do you have one high or one low leg? Do you have a clamp meter to measure the current on each leg? In this second video, right at T=26 seconds, your mutimeter shows 164V at the failure point, even lower than the first video. Is there some sort of master control relay that controls a main contactor for this machine? Is there some sort of auto-resetting overload relay somewhere? An auto-resetting shunt-trip circuit breaker? Is it possible to run this system in a manual mode where you can turn the VFDs on one at a time? The goal is to increase the load on the service to see if any one, or any combination of drives causes the brown-out. Monitor your line-in voltage as you turn each drive on individually, one at a time. Then turn two drives on simultaneously. Then turn three drives on simultaneously. If you can turn on all six drives simultaneously and not see the brown-out, then what other loads are in the machine? You said this was an egg-processor. Are there heater loads? What happens to line-in voltage when they turn on? Is this a brand new machine and has always done this? Or is this a machine that has run normally for some time and this behavior suddenly started very recently? If the second case, the question to ask is WHAT CHANGED? Either in the machine or around it, WHAT CHANGED? Has the line-in voltage always been this low, or has it dropped recently and used to be at 380 or above? WHAT CHANGED? Has a new piece of machinery been moved into this machine's area? Has something been replaced on this machine recently? WHAT CHANGED? Are the motors matched correctly to the drives? I mean, you're not trying to run a 15kw motor with a 7.5kw drive, are you? Are the motors and their loads all able to turn freely, no jamming? Many questions, but all of them are necessary to solve your problem. Did you discover the cause of your power brown-outs? Hello, An online UPS , 30kVA ,was installed in order to supply clean ,rigid 3x 400V , 50Hz AC and isolate the main panel from the incoming grid voltage. Unfortunately the same voltage drop happened again. It did not fix the problem. There are no heater loads. There is no overoad relay for auto-reset. All the drives and motors are the same as supplied by the manufacturer (Pelbo). You must work methodically. Start each drive, one at a time individually, while monitoring line voltage. If no one drive causes a voltage sag, then start two drives. Add one drive at a time to the load while monitoring line voltage. If you can get all drives on at the same time when you add them one at a time, then proceed to starting all drives simultaneously. If it is not the drives, then move on to a different part of the machine. Where is this machine located geographically? What city / nation? n </s>
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<s>[INST] 1336 plus Control interface board. Control interface board question, I cant find a manual with the 1336-L6/B in it. Are the 1336-L6 115VAC (Less encoder) interchangeable with the 1336-L6/B 115VAC(Less encoder) [/INST] Welcome to Engage, Groshel! As far as it's not mentioned inside manuals (I've also had a check and found nothing on it) there are good chances it is compatible and interchangeable. Anyway, to be sure to avoid possible issues, I strongly suggest to contact Technical Support so they can check it for you. fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/td/1336f-td001_-en-p.pdf Page 42 to 47 Series A and B are compatible. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Powerflex 400 fault 012 will not reset Summary: Have a Powerflex 400 drive that tripped on fault 012, cannot get fault to clear,22C-D088A103 Drive shows a 012 fault, tried to reset through keypad no luck, power down power up no luck, suggestions [/INST] https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/22c-um001_-en-e.pdf Go to page 116 which describes fault 12. Can you describe the installation? Is this brand new, or has it been running for some time? What changed recently? You might consider meggering the motor and motor T-leads. This unit was installed 1.5 years ago, it is in a water pumping station, problem is I have disconnected the motor leads and it still will not reset. If you have nothing connected to the drive output at all and still get fault 12, then you will likely have to replace the drive. n </s>
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<s>[INST] ControlLogix and 1734 I/O I have a 1756-L62 ControlLogix processor with a 1756-DNB module that is scanning five 1734-ADN point I/O modules each with multiple Point I/O modules. Everything was configured and mapped with RSNetworx and is working fine. My question is: How are the module addresses assigned to the subnet Point I/O modules? Do they get assigned in physical order or what? Does the address reside on the module? If I physically swap the order of two identical modules in the subnet rack (for example: put the one in position 1 into position 2 and vice versa), it appears that the address goes with the module which makes the device wired to the RTB come in on the wrong address. How do you reassign subnet addresses once a module is replaced or swapped? Thanks. [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] Communication problems with Ether-IP driver over remote network Summary: can't find Compact Logix L35 processor on network, was able to browse earlierI am looking for help with a communcation problem. I am using RSLinx Classic trying to browse a remote network. The PLC is a Complact Logix L35 and I had everything working earlier now I have lost it and can't get it to find the processor. I made the mistake of setting up a new driver I guess to seperate my networks. I have two different remote networks that I am working with. I was just switching the IP address in the driver but thought it would be easier to have two different drivers set up. Now I can browse one of my networks on the original driver, even though the devices show up with red x's on them, I can connect to the PLC (which is also a Compact Logix L35) with RSLogix 5000. The second driver I set up with the other IP address info and it will not find anything. There are about 6 devices on that network, which I can ping from CMD but it will not show up on Linx and will not connect on Logix. What can I check? Are there other settings that I am missing? I am using the Ether-IP driver and it seems pretty straight forward, IP address and subnet??? This was all working this morning. [/INST] Heck, I've tried multiple drivers, each with their own dedicated network adapter. It would seem only one at a time works, and if you wish to look at the other you have to reconfigure the driver. Not how you'd expect it to be, is it? I don't think you're doing anything wrong; it's apparently an artifact of RSLinx. n </s>
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<s>[INST] rsview with controllogix Hi,i have RSView32 6.30.17 and RSLogix5000 running, and i am trying to make the communication.In RSView when i go to node, it showsData source : Direct drivername : AB_DF!-1channel : DH485Station : 1Type:here i can choose PLC2,PLC3,PLC5,PLC5(Enhanced),SLC5,SLC5(Enhanced),Softlogix5, but i don't see controllogix ?????Is my RSView old and i need to buy a new one to communicate with Controllogix???Thanks for help [/INST] Communicating to a ControlLogix processor with RSView32 is possible via DDE and OPC only. RSLinx 2.0 or greater is required to communicate to the ControlLogix processor. The software/firmware compatibility between RSLinx and ControlLogix firmware is important for optimized communication. The Direct Node provides support for the PLC2, PLC3, PLC5, and PLC5 Enhanced, SLC5 and SLC5 Enhanced, and the Soft5 processors. The Control Logix is NOT supported by the Direct Node and require a DDE or OPC node configuration to communicate See the User's Guide - chapter 3, to understand how to configure DDE / OPC communication. - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] PanelView replacement Hi, I have a PanelView 1000, 2711-K10G9. It is used for local control for a machine. Can some tell me what new type of Panelview will replace this one. Thanks, Conor [/INST] Have a look to the Graphic Terminals website, there are indications and product selections... I suggest the Panelview Plus. The onboard serial port could be configured to use DH-485 protocol as your old PV. You may also import your Panelbuilder32 applications, and adapt it to the new FactoryTalk View Studio software. The drop-in replacement will require the selection of a PVP 1250, but you may choose the PVP 1000 and use an adapter plate, available in the catalogue. - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] Panelview Plus 600 continually reboots - no firmware? I've just unwrapped a brand new PV+ 600. When I power it up it just keeps rebooting - you get the initial screen for about a second, then it goes blank for a few seconds, and repeats over & over. Both (green & red) LEDs are flashing, which according to the installation instructions means EBC boot loader firmward failed or is missing. Reload firmware using Firmware Upgrade Wizard (FUW) utility. Is repeatedly rebooting a symptom of this or does it mean there is something else wrong with it? I can't connect to it using the FUW, because it keeps rebooting itself so I can't try sending it the firmware - a bit of a chicken and egg situation there. I guess the only way to get firmware to it when it has none is to use a Compact Flash card? Is it normal for these to be supplied without firmware? Mike [/INST] Hi Mike, it seems to be a defective logic module, so you may try to change it if available, or send the panelview to repair. You may want to try a firmware upgrade, but I think it will not work... Obviously it isn't a normal situation, as all the PVP come with the firmware installed.... - fuzzy logic If the firmware upgrade is going to work at all, you'll need to use a compact flash card to do it. Since it doesn't stay on long enough for a network connection to be established, that's the only option. Though, since it is brand new, just returning it is an option, too. Depends on how much time you have to fiddle with it. JHutch n </s>
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<s>[INST] Unable to enter Ethernet configuration dialog Summary: Configuration dialog is greyed outI have a brand new 1769-L33ER controller but am unable to configure the ethernet ports. In the Controler Configuration the option to manually configure is greyed out and in RS Who the USB has only one option 'remove'. Nowhere can I find an option to set the ip address etc. It's certainly not where the Rockwell Quick Start manual says it should be. I have a feeling it is something to do with there being no 'end cap' terminating the backplane bus. It's going to take a few days for an end cap to arrive on site. Anuone have any idea? [/INST] i'm not sure how to solve the problem yet since i cannot picture what you are seeing. is it possible to send a screenshot? this is more clear then trying to describe it. you can also try to set the IP with BootP-DHCP Tool. To open this tool press windows key and type Bootp it will show then. With this tool you can temporarily give it an IP address and the configure it with rslinx I don't have access to the plc, the site is half a day away. Here is a screenshot of the pdf instruction. On the real PLC where the arrow points is just the letters USB. There is nothing else, nothing to expand. Good to know about Bootp, I'll try that if all else fails. Caveats: This is the order I took, it is not necessarily the best or the only order. I am using Win 10, CompactLogix L33ER. 1) Turn off your Win10 firewall (both settings), turn off you virus protection software. You will need to check occasionally that Win10 has not silently turned either or both of these back on (To show who really is boss). 2) Get your clients ip people to provide you with however many ip address your process needs. At the very least that will be two, one for the plc and one for your laptop. 3) Set up your laptop with its ip address by manually entered it in the ethernet properties. Network settings – Ethernet – Properties – Internet protocol 4 (TCP/IPv4) – Properties – Use the following IP address – (the ip address provided by your clients ip staff + a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, everything else can be left blank) – OK – Close 4) Rockwell Software – BootP DHCP Tool – Click on your ethernet connection in the Select Network Interface pop-up – Theoretically your plc will be sending packets that will appear in the Discovery History – If not click Add Relation – Enter the mac address of you plc manually (it's on the front of your plc) then type in the second of the ip address provided by your clients ip people – OK – it will appear in the lower window (the Entered Relations window) – click on this in the lower window – a couple of buttons will appear – now here is where it gets a bit fuzzy – one button will be ‘enable BootP’ the other ‘disable BootP’ - try clicking enable BootP – if nothing happens wait around for half an hour or an hour and see if it has appeared in the top window. If it has then don’t bother clicking the disable BootP button (this caused me all kinds of heartache). The button does not work. Instead highlight the address in the lower window – right click – select ‘disable BootP from the drop down menu. Almost immediately you will see a success confirmation below. Close the BootP tool. Now you have your ip address setup in both your laptop and the plc. But the properties box of the plc in RSL5000 will still not show this. It will be all blank and greyed out. 5) Rockwell Software – RSLinx Classic – Disable or delete anything there (your mileage may vary – do this at your own risk) – Communications – Configure Drivers – Available Driver Types – EtherNet/IP Driver – Add New – OK – Select your Ethernet Controller – OK – Close – Right click the driver and select something like 'download EDS from PLC' (I don't have the plc in front of me to document this step properly) – now click 'Next 4 or 5 times in the wizard that pops up. Finally click 'Done' or maybe it was Finish'. – Shutdown RSLinx. Now when you go the properties box in RSL5000 the internet stuff will be all filled in – but still greyed out – Whatever. Your ethernet connection should be up and running properly. Just so you know this took me 2 days to do and I absolutely could not have done it without expert help from someone who knows. That second bit with RSLinx was blocking for me. Classic 'Catch 22'. How do you know to do this unless you know how to do this? Win 10 firewall blocking your USB port? that sounds strange. Could you please share how you solved it exactly, when someone experiences the same and comes across this post. Thanks No, it was blocking my ethernet port. I am experiencing the same problem, but it is only with versions 31 and 32. When I downgrade to version 30 I am able to set the IP Address. I am using Windows 10 64 Bit. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Activation Move Summary: Activation Rehosted but not recognized by new computerI had to setup a laptop with Windows XP (Home Edition) SP1. Activation Tool installed, but Activation Manager would not install on an XP Home Edition. I successfull rehosted the activation from the existing computer and that computer does recognize that there is no activation on it and throws out the Error 2 message. I successfully brought down the activation to the new computer and it lists it within Activation Tool, but when I try to run RSLogix500 it gives Fatal Error: The copy protection license for the application could not be acquired. Error 2. Any thoughts? Is this an XP Home Edition issue? [/INST] Welcome to the Forum ! It is difficult to know if it is an XP Home Edition issue, as that OS isn't tested nor supported to be used with RA software. - fuzzy logic In order to enhance Forum's contributors reputation, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! n </s>
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<s>[INST] MES and LOG4J How can I verify that my Apache Tomcat install is not using Log4J for our MES instance? Reviewing the file set I see Log4J folders and JAR files. I do not see the software listed on the newly released KB for this but it appears not all of the software has been checked yet. [/INST] Hi Kris. Thanks for your query. The tech note you're referring to will be updated as soon as more information is available. For others interested, the tech note is here: PN1579 - Log4Shell Vulnerability Notice You and any other concerned customers can continue to monitor this advisory by subscribing to updates on the Security Advisory Index for Rockwell Automation, located in PN1354 – Industrial Security Advisory Index. If you have questions regarding this notice, please send an email to our product security inbox at: [email protected]. Thank you. -Eileen n </s>
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<s>[INST] PROBLEM DISPLAY NEW PV600 Summary: NEW PV600 DISPLAY ONLY STAR SYMBOL Hi, I have two machine coater with two PV600 that communication with PLC MICROLOGIX1200. These two PV are exactly the same fuction for each machine coater. At the moemnt because of the lifetime the display can not clear enough to be read. I'll replace these 2 PV600 with the new two PV600 After transfer all program in the original to the new PV600 already done but the DISPLAY on the new PV600 van not show the correct value but only STAR SYMBOL. This poblem occured to the others PV600 and EXACTLY the same problem, only STAR SYMBOL, looks like no communication / transfer data. I check and SURE that the cable are OK because the machine can run and show correctly value when using OLD PV600. I ensloed the picture of NEW PV600 when aleady connect to commincation between MICOLOGIX and PV600 ( display STAR SYMBOL ONLY ) Pleas help me, HOW TO SOLVE this problem ? because I wonder why these TWO NEW PV600 are have got the EXACTLY PROBLEM, I think should be wrong setting only on NEW PV600 [/INST] The star symbol denotes lack of communications between the HMi and the CPU controller(s). How were the old runtime application files loaded to the replacement terminals? The new terminals will most likely have a different firmware revision than the old ones. The application and runtime files for the replacement terminals will need to be edited with FactoryTalk View Studio in order to reflect the firmware change and any eventual networking alterations. Hi, the old PV600 was installed in about year 2005. How to edit application and runtime file without FACTORY TALK VIEW ? because we do not have this software ( factory talk view studio ) ? How I can recognize the FIRMWARE for OLD PV600 and the NEW PV600 ? The terminal's firmware is listed on the product attached label. Unfortunately, you will most likely need FactoryTalk View Studio ME in order to covert the original application runtime files to the new firmware level. Another option will be to downgrade the new terminals' firmware to the original ones level; this is not always possible (PanelView Plus 6s cannot be downgraded to anything lesser than Level 6) though and even if it is, I'll suggest contacting the local A-B/Rockwell distributor and ask that this procedure to be performed by the manufacturer's support staff. Hi, thank you for your info. actually, these 2 new PV600 are installed & replaced by autorized distributor of ROCKWELL and I wonder why they confuse with this problem and they back to their office and said they will contact their principle to ask about this problem. From your experience, with this my PV600 problem, are you sure that the problem is coming from the DIFFERENCE FIRMWARE between the OLD and the NEW PV600 ? The FIRMWARE is in the product attached label, you mean like a sticker on the bottom side of PV600 ? Yes, the sticker attached to the HMI's CPU unit; you could also retrieve the terminals' firmware level via the HMI's Application Settings interface -> System Information-> About FTV ME Station. I am not quite 100% sure that this issue is solely firmware related, however, there is at least an eight years difference between the replacement HMIs and the ones originally installed; I'd say the old ones were at Level 4.x and the new ones are at least at 6.0; what is the exact model number of the replacement terminals? There also might be issues with the Runtime applications communication paths, however, without a FactoryTalk View Studio copy and the original development applications, you will not be able to troubleshoot the eventual RSLinx Enterprise communications issues.. hi, today i continue check the old pv600, the firmware is 3.10.06.38 (Major,Minor,Patch,Build) and the NEW PV600 is firm ware 5 xxxxx I enclosed the display for this old firmware, Please inform me HOW TO CONVERT this NEW FIRMWARE 5xxx to the downgrade as old Ver 3.10.06.38 with FACTORY TALK STUDIO ? Another way, I think the EASIEST WAY, is it possible if I change the CARD inside this NEW PV600 with replacing / SWAP with card from the OLD PV600 ? because the MAIN PROBLEM of the old PV 600 is ONLY SCREEN looks like burnt , I mean I will using the new PV600 , take out the LCD and isntall it to my old PV600 , is it OK ? ( see attachment ) You have a major issue at hand if you do not have an available FactoryTalk View Studio copy; and even if you obtain a copy, without the original development application it will be quite tricky restoring a Runtime application with a revision lesser than 5.0 into a development file (required in order to create a .mer matching the replacement terminals' firmware). I have been lucky several times and managed to successfully swap the HMI processor module from a defective terminal within a new functional shell, thus, while beeing very careful, you might also succeed. Otherwise, you only other choice will require the acquisition of FactoryTalk View S.tudio ME. You will need to upload the 3.10 .mer applications and then, using the procedure described within https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8913 (TechConnect authorization required!) you could convert them into development projects which then could be compiled into Runtime applications matching the new terminals' firmware. Maybe the local Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation support group could do this for you though. Hi finally I return to the supplier for the first PV600 because still under guarantee. for the second PV600, we upload first the old firm ware then convert to the new firmware , now the second new PV600 working normally tahnk you very much for your help PV600 uses PanelBuilder 32, not Factory talk. n </s>
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<s>[INST] PID Here i am using rslogix 5000 ver 16.03 i want to tune the control valve (for flow) using pid can you tell me hoew to use the features of pid instruction in this. and how to to dumb the overshoot and undershoot in the system [/INST] The following thread is the same subject.... LINK edit: renewed link - fuzzy logic #HL38 This page doesn't exist... Thanks MATV for the heads-up... it was the old Forum's link... Now it is the right one... - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] Ethernet connection fault and recovery criteria details Can someone point me towards documentation that details the criteria the processor uses to determine whether its ethernet connection with another processor is good or faulted? I'm looking for something that goes down to the details of ethernet packet loss/out of sequence, data mismatch, etc. Our network guys have been trying to troubleshoot this connection and are asking about things like packet latency and whatnot and all I can point to is RPi = 30... it faults after 120 ms (Connection Reaction Time limit)... even though they're saying we're not losing any packets, packet latency us 48ms max, etc... Also, why does it take 4 seconds to reestablish the connection? That seems to be a constant in our fault logs. ~4-ish seconds after connection faults (As indicated by the .ConnectionFaulted bit of the consumed tag), it's good again. [/INST] Hey 'PLC', welcome to Engage! You don't explicitly say what you're producing and consuming between, however the fundamental info is a connection will error (16#0203) if no data is received for 4*RPI or 100ms, whichever is greater, for standard connections and just 4*RPI for safety connections. If this persists then the controller declares a 16#0204. QA6901 - Difference in 16#0203 and 16#0204 is a good place to start. That also references QA6283 - Ethernet diagnostics shows Alignment Errors and FCS Errors which is one of the first things I check with sporadic comms problems. Yes, that is correct. We're doing both standard and safety tags, currently have 3 Produced/Consumed tag pairs on each PLC (So each PLC (L82ES connected through onboard ethernet) is both producing for the other and consuming from the other PLC) The tags are 1x standard tag with just a DINT and 2x Safety tags, an array of 15 DINTs. We've also changed the Network Delay Multiplier to 267% to get a Connection Reaction Time limit of 200ms trying to get faults down, while keeping our safety rating. I'm monitoring the tagXX.connection_status.ConnectionFaulted bit for each tag and when they fault, then writing the GST timestamp to a FIFO buffer, which is how I'm getting my fault timestamps. Hmm, Safety isn't really my thing, but I do know that if you have infrastructure problems it's the first thing to fault! So changing safety network settings is never going to be successful. Check out the basics first, the Ethernet diagnostic counters in the processors, the port config in the processor and the switches in between. n </s>
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<s>[INST] RSLinx Activation I work at a school that teaches PLC programming. Because we use different classrooms and computers for training we have concurrent activations on a Factory talk server. We also have a computer lab with the software installed so students can work on projects outside of class. We seem to be having a problem with the RSLinx activation files. Apparently RSLinx starts automatically when the computer is fired up. As a result, the first 20 computers turned on get all the activations regardless of whether or not they need them. This only causes problem when we try to use RSView during labs. We can program the PLCs (all families) with RSLinx Lite (default status when the activation is tied up) but can't communicate with RSView. We need the activations to float so we can use them when needed. Is there a way to prevent RSLinx from acquiring the activation unless prompted by the user? I know it is possible to reserve activations for usergroups and computers but this isn't flexible enough to allow for multiple classes and locations. We want the activation to be available when someone needs it- wherever they're working from. Our only issue seems to be with LInx. Any suggestions would be appreciated, Thanks. Sam [/INST] I would stop RSLinx from running as a service. You can do this by going to All Programs > Rockwell Software > RSLinx and starting the RSLinx Classic Launch Control Panel. Click the Stop button and then uncheck Always Run as a Service. This will basically turn the RSLinx Classic service to manual instead of automatic and will prevent the activaiton loss when the computers are started. Step 1:Start the program RSLinx and select the menu item Configure Drivers.When the Configure Drivers Window opens up make note of the Configured Drivers list.See which drivers are Running.Highlight the driver and press the button Startup.Select the checkbox for Manual and press “OK”.Next press the button for “Stop”.Now the driver will not start until you specifically command it to by opening the Configure window, highlight the driver desired and press the button to “Start”.Perform this operation for all of the other drivers which are running (if any).Step 2:Now start the program RSLinx Launch Control Panel (found in the RSLinks Program Directory).If the application is running, Stop it.Also De-select the checkbox that commands Always Run As Service.The result should be that RSLinx will no longer automatically start upon power-up. n </s>
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<s>[INST] 60708 - Certain SLC 5/04 ser. C and 5/05 ser. B or C processors may hard fault I have this problem, but I don't know a solution. Please help me.Issue:The SLC 500 processor may sometimes go into a hard fault with a solid red fault light. The fault typically occurs after a power cycle. However the anomaly may also be detected by run-time error checking routines.Affected modules include 1747- L54X and 1747-L55X modules with date codes between 0504 and 0805 (May 2004 to August 2005).A low percentage of controllers with the affected date codes incorporate the SRAM component lots that are affected by oxide wear-out due to manufacturer's design and process issues. The incidence of this anomaly is expected to be low.Impact:SLC 500 processor may go into a hard fault. The following may be observed:FAULT LED is ON and remains ONAll other 4 LEDs (except RUN) flash once, then turn OFFBATT LED flashes once, then turns OFF [/INST] Please contact Rockwell Automation Technical Support, give them the Technote number you've indicated here, they will provide troubleshooting assistance if they confirm this product issue is present.... (and also if not ! :smileytongue: ) Hope this helps… - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] AssetCentre 4.10 and Compare of Produced/Consumed Tags Summary: Backup and Compare detects tag difference in TagForceData property Doing a Backup and Compare on a CLX - in Compare options, I have Processor Configuration, Tasks, Programs, and Routines, and Tags and Data Types checked, but I do NOT have Tag Values checked. When the schedule runs, I will get a Differences Detected report where the only difference detected is the VALUE of the produced/consumed tags. For each, I get the changed Tag Data values, and also the Tag Property TagForceData. From this, I surmise that since Produced/Consumed tags are part of the I/O system, that the way they pass their values is via the Forces mechanism. Is that right? If this is correct, I would like to suggest to the AssetCentre folks that the TagForceData property be considered as part of the Tag Values selection. Alternatively, maybe lump the Produced/Consumed tag compare in with the I/O Modules selection, rather than the Tags and Data Types selection. My $0.02... [/INST] The Produce/Consume data is handled by the Logix CPUs as I/O Data hence un-ticking the I/O Data Change option when configuring the FTAC Disaster Recovery Agentaudit schedule will ignore the I/O Differences including the Produce/Consume data. Sorrry, no. I/O Data is not checked. Try again. Your $0.02 is worth exactly as much as something you could acquire when shelling two pennies... Get a TechConnect contract (worth slightly more than $0.02) and call 440-646-3100; they might be able to help you since they are paid to consider accepting bad manners customers' calls. A properly installed/configured FTSC DRA does not return Produced/Consumed data hits if the user knows what he's doing. How 'bout dem apples?.... Dmargineau, I apologize that my glib comment was taken as bad manners. That was not my intention. I have been a Rockwell Field Support engineer for 13 years. I came across this issue and am pursuing it on behalf of a customer. This is a properly installed FT AssetCentre application, and all works as expected, except for this particular anomaly. Has anyone else seen this issue, where a Produced or Consumed tag reports a TagForceData Tag Property change, when only the value of the tag has changed? If I uncheck Tags and Data Types, I do not get the Differences Detected report. What is curious to me is that the configuration of the Tag has obviously not changed (that requires a download), only the value of the tags, and yet I get the report with only this item in it. I see...None taken... Logix Produce/Consumed data is handled by the CPUs as I/O Class connections hence one would think that if the I/O Modules Change Detection is not checked at DRA Schedule configuration time, you will not be prompted with a Change Detection related to Produced/Consumed data... I have personally configured quite a few FTAC systems and never encountered this issue. The only workaround I could think of (short of actually contacting TechSupport) is to leave Tags and Data Types checked and then use the Filter option in order to get rid of the unwanted Produce/Consume changes. I have found other issues which TechConnect could not help with though...The most recent one was the failing audit for a ControlNet PLC5-80 which after countless hours spent on the phone with RA I almost gave up upon...Until I gathered the courage of ticking the RSLogix 5 Online, Controller Properties, Ignore Edit TimeStamp for Online File Match option (never used before) and crossing my fingers...It's been running perfect since and there really isn't any RA database documentation addressing this issue...Go figures.... n </s>
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<s>[INST] Panelview Component 600 hangs up with Screensaver Summary: PVC600Hi all, I'm using a Panelview Component 6 TFT and a Micrologix 1200. The problem is that when sreensaver is active then I cannot return to application. From Panel's System Information my application weights: Memory Usage ----------------- Internal Used: 7.901.184 Internal Free: 12.982.272 Application Used: 18.219.008 Application Free: 30.842.880 What can be the problem? Thanks in advance! [/INST] I've forgotten to say that I'm using 326 variables in panel. I've not seen limitation in quantity of variables. Please, could anyone help me? Here my answer: http://forums.rockwellautomation.com/posts/b89176fafb - fuzzy logic In order to enhance Forum's contributors reputation, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! n </s>
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<s>[INST] FTView SE v5.10 Digital Tags Not Communicating Help on my FTView SE v5.10 suddenly not communicating all digital tags but all analog tags are working fine, before it's working fine. Also, just today I apply the March 2016 patches but still the issue not solve. We did also restarting server and client as well as the PLC (Redundant L62 v16). FTView is configured as HMI Tag base. [/INST] Hi Rominaldo, Not sure what could be going on with your system. There are many things that could cause issues in communications between the HMI and a controller. My recommendation would be to call into Technical Support to walk through troubleshooting with one of our engineers. We would look into whether you can communicate with those tags in any method - you mentioned that you use HMI Tags. Are you able to retrieve value's from those digital tags in the controller using direct referencing? I would also suggest checking the controller memory usage and CPU. Often, if a controller is too busy running the program, it won't be able to service the requests coming from the Data Server / HMI. Also, if you have multiple data servers connected to a controller, this would also affect its ability to provide data to the HMI. Those are a few things that you could investigate on your own, but I would recommend reaching out to our Technical Support team if you still need assistance in resolving this issue. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Changing a Host ID from a hard disk to a network card Hello, I am wanting to change the host ID for my activations from the hard disk to a network card. If I re host an activation, can I simply type in the host ID from the network card? The re host utility will automatically place the hard disk ID in that field.Thanks in advance. [/INST] Please follow the instructions you may find inside technote 44620. Hope this helps.... - fuzzy logic Hi, thanks for your reply. I have had a look at the videos but I am still wondering at what point in the rehosting process you are able to change the host ID? The rehost utility generates a new code, is it at this point you are able to change the ID or do you change the ID when you are on-line to Rockwell?Thanks. Here from the last part of the indicated technote: On the Rehost Activations page of the Rockwell Software Activation website, enter the rehost code and Host ID, and enter your product's serial number. Click Rehost.The system confirms the rehost code, generates a new activation file, and resets your account in the customer database.Select Get Activations on the Rockwell Software Activation website.Follow the steps to download a new activation file that is tied to the new Host ID you want to use.Basically, using the rehost code, you're able to generate a new activation file, so that you can get the activation exactly as it was the first time... then, when you're connected to Rockwell Activation server, you may indicate the new Host ID. Hope this helps, - fuzzy logic Thanks for your help! You're welcome ! :smileyhappy: Thanks to you for the feedback. - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] Powerflex700 fault 64 Hello, I've a pf700 with 37kw, 60A, 150 hz, 9000 rpm, I configure pf with quickstart guide, and when it start the motor rotate a little and appears fault 64. What can be wrong? [/INST] Welcome to the Forum ! Here a screenshot from the User Manual. - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! n </s>
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<s>[INST] Downloading SD Card data without Remote Tool Hi all, I hope you all are doing well. I'm using a Micro800 (820/850) and I can store data onto the SDCard. And I can use the Remote Tool to download this data. Is there an API etc I can use in lieu of the Remote Tool? I would like to have a customer facing app that they can use to pull this data off the SD Card... Thoughts? Thanks ~Kam [/INST] Hi Kam, Remote Access Tool works thru the CCW, connecting the controller with RSLinx Classic. That you want to do, that an external application opens this software, seems to be difficult to program. Micro820 allows to you to communicate with computers thru Ethernet serial, with socket technique. Have you tried this way to get the logs into the computer? See this note: IN6359 - Open Sockets Support for Micro800 I believe that Micro820 can work as a TCP Server for your customer's application. Hi, thanks for the reply. I can send/receive data perfectly using Sockets and MQTT. It's just that we save data on the SDCard in the event there are connectivity issues, and then I would like to pull all that data from the SDCard externally. Is there a way to READ the sdcard log data from the PLC, then I could easily pass the data via sockets or mqtt... thanks again, ~Kam Hi Kam, Data loggin is a writing function. There isn't the instruction to read from the SD the stored data with the instruction DLG. The only feature, that write and read to the SD card, is the Recipe. The instruction RCP can write data, and read data to the SD card. But the structure isn't the same that Data Log. Page 122 and next: Micro820 Programmable Controllers - User Manual I am not sure that it could be useful in your case. n </s>
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<s>[INST] FTviewSE 10.0 crashes I have an FTviewSE 10.0 application running with a runtime license. I have discovered that a certain fast sequence of button-clicks will (sometimes) make the application crash. All the buttons run VBA code, but the application does not break in the code (I have allowed display code debugging ). The application just freezes and the only solution is to restart the HMI. Is there somewhere I can inspect log-files, that may reveal something? [/INST] Jake104E, definitely difficult to troubleshoot... maybe a look to the FactoryTalk Diagnostic Viewer would reveal possible issues. If it were me, I would proceed with a complete system patching first... many times it solves. Here is the link to the latest Patch Roll-up: QA49264 fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer Thanks - I am now downloading a Patch Roll-up... I think I have chosen the one applicable for FTview 10.0 - but the name does not seem to indicate that. Can I somehow verify the correct version? I can see that it is called CPR9 SRx Does that mean it works for all versions (x) and will only apply the ones relevant to my version 10.0? Jake104E, this is what is reported in the technote: Even though all patches are included in this roll-up, only patches that are actually required for an installed product will be applied. The roll-up uses specific check files to confirm which product is installed. The roll-up will only install patch files provided these files already exist on the target computer, unless a new binary file is being introduced as part of a patch. If you download and install the entire roll-up, it will provide the right patches for you: fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer Just adding an important note: please install patches on all machines involved in the system. As well as software versions, patch releases must be aligned, otherwise you'll encounter different issues. fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer Got it. Anyway - its a standalone application - only one HMI and one PLC. I have now installed the patch-rollup. BUT - I can still navigate around in the HMI-application and sometimes provoke a crash. It's not always - but sometimes - and way to frequently... Any suggestions? I can try to make a completely new FTview 13.0 installation with patches and see if that solves the problem. But then I have to migrate the license (which is for version 13) - and I also need to solve some other issues. So I would prefer to find the root cause of the crash - before I just do a lot of things. Thank you for the follow-up. A system upgrade might be helpful, but before you go that route, you might try checking the FactoryTalk Diagnostic Viewer and also the Windows Application Log in the OS Event Viewer. Checking these logs at the time of the crash/freeze could highlight a possible cause. fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer Looked at the Windows Application Log - and there are some entries that I shall investigate. I am also considering updating the Windows 10 - right now it's version Windows 10 Pro version 1709. If I connect to the the web and do a windows update - it may go to 20H2 or 21H2 or something... Is there a list of compatibility I shall observe when Windows and FTview 10.0 is to work? Jake104E, here you may find release notes for version 10.00.01 : https://compatibility.rockwellautomation.com/GeneratedReleaseNote.aspx?v1=56578&v2=56578&o=&pdf=0 OS releases are not specified, though. If you're not confortable doing the update, I suggest to contact Technical Support before taking a decision. fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer In the Windows Application Log I can see, that I have two things happening quite frequently: Fault bucket , type 0 Event Name: CLR20r3 Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: FTActivationBoost.exe P2: 4.2.0.80 P3: 59f38449 P4: System.Management P5: 4.7.2556.0 P6: 59b83606 P7: 8c P8: 3f P9: System.Management.Management P10: This happens in chunks of 30 identical events about every 15 minutes. At appears to be something with FTview activation..? and: svchost (2544,G,0) The beta feature EseDiskFlushConsistency is enabled in ESENT due to the beta site mode settings 0x800000. googling the last EseDiskFlushConsistency somehow indicates that this can cause freezing of apps - and that it is related to Windows version 1709. Hence the idea of updating Windows. It appears that the crash is related to a command where I change the active display. I use the VBA statement Application.ExecuteCommand (Display Picture1) where the Picture1 is a .gfx file. In the help to this statement it says: The ExecuteCommand method is asynchronous and therefore the specified command is not guaranteed to complete running before the next VBA statement is run. You will have to ensure that any code that uses this method, handles this possibility. What exactly does that mean? And what should the code do to handle this? And - is there a standard way of navigating between pictures/displays? I have a footer with 6 buttons to change the main part of the screen - i.e. display the picture indicated by the button text. Today I use VBA - but maybe there is a standard way to call up a picture? Jake Use a button to call a macro with parameters. The text on the button is either static text or dynamic via String tag. As an example from PlantPAx v3.5-01, here is a macro called NavToObject Display ($%1%2.Inf_Lib$) $%1%2.Inf_Type$-Faceplate /T%1%2 %1 and %2 are a parameter pass into the macro %1 is the path e.g. [PLC_shortcut]MainProgram %2 is the object name e.g. MyAnalogInput $__$ everything between the dollar signs will be evaluated at then it becomes a string that can be concatenated -Faceplate is static text and the parenthesis is static text When the macro is called it has to evaluate two tags: %1 [PLC_shortcut]MainProgram:MyAnalogInput.Inf_Lib which is a string and has the value RA-BAS %2 [PLC_shortcut]MainProgram:MyAnalogInput.Inf_Type which is a string and has the value P_AIn Then it concatenates these variable values with the static values to get (RA-BAS) P_AIn-Faceplate.gfx That is concatenated to the rest of of the command.. Display (RA-BAS) P_AIn-Faceplate.gfx /T [PLC_shorcut]MainProgram:MyAnalogInput Every time you call the macro you can pass different variable values. Jake, I would bet $5 that FTView ìs NOT actually crashing. Rather, you have an error in your VBcode. When VB errors in runtime, an error message dialog box pops up. It is called a modal message type. Modal message boxes MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED before anything else can take place. By acknowledged I mean clicking one of the buttons that are on the message box itself. Unfortunately, in the case of FTView, that message box is displayed behind the current display graphic. You don't see it, so it seems like the system is frozen. I don't recall if Alt-Tab will bypass the modal msgbox, but if it does, you will be able to see it as you tab through running applications. If that doesn't work, if you scale your app or configure it so that the normal Windows Taskbar is visible at the bottom of your screen you will see a VB icon that is pulsing or has a greenish overlay . I think you can right-click on it and select Close Screen to get rid of the modal msgbox, but my recollection is that this also disabled VB until you restart your app. The good news is that because nothing can occur until that modal msgbox is gone, you know exactly what caused it. What ever you clicked last before the system 'froze' is the source of the error. This is a whole lot easier than upgrading OS or FactoryTalk. Plus, if this turns out to be the explanation, those upgrades won't fix it. Hi Bob. I agree. In my many years of programming it has always come down to a logic error in my own code. OK - not entirely - there have been a few very exotic issues (at least one...) - where I stumbled into a known issue of the underlying software. And I frankly don't expect that to be the case here. But - I don't get it to break in VBA, and there is no hidden pop-up, no blinking icon in the footer...and in the task manager, the Display Client Runtime Framework (32 bit) is just listed not responding. I am displaying VBA for the application - but that too freezes up. So I don't know the cause of this. Presently I am trying to make a work-around. As the freeze seems to be related to hectic navigation between displays - I am slowing this down by restricting the ability to change displays. It seems to have a positive effect - but....I can still provoke a crash. Not in a consistent way like if I always do this - then I get a crash. In particular one of my displays has a lot of elements - and it takes a while (about 1 second) to load where the cursor shows busy. But still - I would expect it to work. Input (from buttons) seems to queue up - but now I am preventing other Displays to be loaded before 3 seconds after the previous display was loaded. But if I stress-test by pushing all kinds of buttons fast - I can usually eventually make it freeze. So I am not all too happy about the situation.... Jake Jake, I would bring that HMI application over to a VM that has the latest OS and latest FTView and see if the issue follows the HMI application. I did that Friday - to a VM with FTview 13.0 with a roll-up from September - and Windows 10 with all updates at that time (because that's when I made the VM). Installed the APA-backup of the FTview 10.0 installation. It started up - but I could make it fail with intensive navigation between displays. This somehow confirms the assumption, that it is in my own logic... I have not yet converted the version 10.0 to version 13.0 - but it asks me to do so, when I want to edit a display on the VM wit FTview 13. Will do that one of these days. Right now I am trying to identify the problem by eliminating code and see if I eventually can't make the crash. But since there is no definite crash-situation - it may be for no good... But - I may now be circling in on the issue. I have On_Error logic that traps errors - i.e. the code does as such not break. But - after exiting a fault situation - shall I reset something? Like clearing any faults or what? Maybe that is what is happening. Now I have made the on_error logic a comment - and that should make the code break. Hopefully that brings something. Jake, You can use the On Error Code to help you discover the source of the error ============================================ Sub Mouse_Click () (or whatever your procedure name is) On Error GoTo ErrorHandler <your code> Exit sub ErrorHandler: MsgBox Error in & Err.Source & vbCrLf & Str(Err.number) & vbCrLf & Err.Description End Sub ===================================== I may have the syntax mistakes here, but I think you get the idea of what we are trying to do. You got a tough one on your hands. If you can't reproduce it on demand, well,...those are difficult. I'm trying to think of any troubleshooting tools that could monitor the system for you. If I come up with anything I'll be sure to add to this thread. If you do solve it, I hope you will post your solution here so I can learn something new. Is there any way you can send me the project without giving away any proprietary information? I understand that is likely to be impossible. I'm really intrigued at this point. I get a little obsessive about this sort of thing sometimes. Good luck! Jake, I came across this; Read through the entire thread https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/esediskflushconsistency-is-enabled-how-do-i/4f94065c-0d5f-4a32-961d-56427cf82cbf Hi Bob, I have seen this thread - as I also googled this event when I looked in my Windows log three days ago. I am not that comfortable with all the not very specific suggestions. But I may just update Windows on the VM where I have my installation - and hoping this will solve the problem. It is indeed a tough one. Even with all On_Error logic removed I would expect any fault to make the code break - but I still experience sudden freeze - with no hint on what has happened. I am not a big fan of On Error logic - as I like faults to be exposed and corrected. But sometimes it is a convenient way of handling things that are difficult to handle otherwise. Like reference to a picture element - where the picture can be closed by a user. If this happens in the middle of some VBA code it will generate a fault - and here it is convenient to simply exit the routine. The On Error logic should be able to handle this - but then also will be activated by any other faults in that routine, you would otherwise like to see... Jake I have just installed all Windows updates in my VM. But the FTview still crashes at some point. Here the crash is 22:39:36 The Event Viewer - Windows Logs - Application shows no trace of that. There are no entries at that time: In FactoryTalk Diagnostics I can see entries for the Display navigation up to the crash. At 22.39.36 I push the button for a given display and the application freezes. There is no break in the VBA code (which now is without On Error-logic - i.e. all faults are fatal and should make the code break). All events have the same text as displayed here. Seemingly identical events can happen - but the last one makes the installation lock up. Any clue to what this is? And does this say anything relevant as to why there is a crash..? From 22.27.52 the application is idle, and at 22.31.00 it automatically changes to a general display based on a timer. 22.39.31 I navigate to a different display, push two buttons (which cant bee seen here) and then navigate to another display which makes it freeze. Any ideas on what this is - and suggestions to prevent it? The details are from the display that makes FTview freeze: After exhausting testing, elimination of code, comparison with earlier versions etc. I believe I have found the root cause of the crash: I am using a TeeChart ActiveX control to make a special X-Y-scatter chart. Such a chart type is not available in FTview10 - hence the use of a 3rd-party object. If I disable this control, I can not make the application crash. Not finding something does not guarantee that it is not there - but I have tested way beyond where I have had it crash before. It also makes sense that such an error does not make my VBA-code break. I have no idea about the nature of the error - but it may be something like a memory leak, or leaving pointers and registers in a bad state - and eventually that leads to a crash. Now I shall look into FTview13. There are XY Plot Templates in the explorer tree under Graphics.... Aha, thank you for taking the time to post this information. I will file it away in my (sometimes failing) memory. At the very least it might suggest an early question for troubleshooting: Does you app use any 3rd-party ActiveX controls? Now that I think of it, I have experienced VBA errors in FTView with other ActiveX controls in the past. Great troubleshooting work! Quite frustrating though... already on day two I suspected the ActiveX - but as the crash seemed random, I spent some time on stabilizing the solution, before I made more systematic investigation. Here I got sidetracked by the apparent stability of an early version and I looked at new changes since then. But as it still crashed through my stepwise removal of these new changes - I tested the old version again. And then it crashed... Then I removed the use of the ActiveX - and I can not provoke a crash. The whole issue is complicated by the fact that a crash could take from 2 to 30 minutes to provoke through seemingly random screen navigation. As it turned out - it should include the display with the ActiveX, but it could open and close many times before it suddenly froze - most often at a display not using the ActiveX. As always - afterwards it seems quite apparent and something I should have found earlier. And clearly - the use of 3rd-party ActiveX controls will be on my suspect list in the future. Jake n </s>
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<s>[INST] Green Line Photo Eye Application Question I'm looking for a photo eye that will detect an event that blocks a fiber optic cable for just over 1 milli second. However, due to PLC scan, the device pulse needs to be adjustable to about 10 millisecond. I'm looking at the Green Line photoeye with two plug in modules. [/INST] DJ Cool, I'd suggest looking at Allen Bradley's line of DIN Rail Mounted Fiber Optic Sensors (http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/pp/dinfbr-pp001_-en-p.pdf). Specifical the recently launched 45FPL sensor which is very easy to to program and comes with a 50 ms pulse stretcher that could satisfy your application requirements. This is a much more cost effective and efficient solution for your application that going with the Green LIne family of photoelectric sensors. Thanks, this looks good for my application. Dave n </s>
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<s>[INST] Panelview Plus Function Keys To extend the number of function keys available for any one screen you can use the shift or Alt buttons in conjunction with the F keys to multiply the number of operator interface keys. The problem is all of the options using the K feature use the RIGHT shift or the RIGHT Alt keys. The shift and alt keys on the panelview plus are set up as LEFT shift and LEFT Alt. That only leaves F13 and F14 that use the left shift in conjunction with F1 and F2 respectively. Help instructs you to attach a keyboard if you want to use the right shift key. ??????? Does anyone know how to change the shift and Alt key on a PV+ from being left to right? [/INST] Unfortunately, the PVP shift / alt keys are a Left shift / alt. There is no Right shift / alt available. You can only have a right shift / alt by use of an external keyboard. Right shift / alt function is not on the PVP Terminals. :smileysad: - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] Panel View Plus info EDIT: moved to Automation Control community -FL Good morning, I don't have much experience with rockwell. I have two questions about a Panel View Plus 1500 (2711P-RP9D) with FactoryTalk View version 10: Is there a tag limit? I saw from the manual that the maximum pages are 50... 25 full screen and 25 pop up, but opening a customer's software I found about 30 full screen pages. 25 full screen and 25 pop ups but opening a customer's software I found about 30 not full screen. How is it possible a big thanks from Italy [/INST] Welcome to Engage, Galbusera! The catalog # you mentioned is related to a logic module of a PanelView Plus 6 with Extended Features, so it doesn't have the limitations you saw in the manual, which only apply to PanelView Plus 6 Compact. You should also find on your device another label with the complete catalog # of the product (something like 2711P-T15C4D9). About the tag limit, as far as I can remember, you can have a maximum of 5000 HMI tags (while Direct tags limit is not enforced) per application and a total of 1000 tags per display. fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer Thanks for the quick response @fuzzy logic. Do you think I can use Kepware to communicate with a Siemens plc? Should the panel have OPC function? Galbusera, short answer can be: YES, it should. A number of KEPServer drivers are available for PanelView Plus terminals. I suggest to start reading the following technotes: IN4359 - Kepware KEPServer Enterprise Drivers for the PanelView Plus family of terminals IN3740 - KEPServer Enterprise version compatibility with PanelView Plus and ME Station QA9303 - PanelView Plus / FactoryTalk View ME: Setting up KEPServer Enterprise Communications Please consider that a TechConnect contract is required to access the last technote. fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer n </s>
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<s>[INST] MRP - Position Select Hi, I am trying to use MRP instruction. I don't see any differences between Actual or Command. I observe the same behavior in both cases. If you have information about this topic please share with me. Thank you. [/INST] Hello Gulec There is a very good explanation in the Help in Studio 5000. for that you have 2 ways. Select your MRP instruction in your ladder code and hit F1 or got to the Help tab and select Instruction help and search for MRP. What is you need for the MRP ? regards Hi Vincent, Thanks for your reply. I have already reviewed the help page. I am currently trying to learn motion instructions. While trying the MRP instruction, I could not observe any difference between Actual and Command. The help page was not very descriptive. I observed the same movement in both cases. That's why I wanted to ask here. I'd be happy If you have other resources you can share. Great Gamze. you will not see much if you run at low speed, and depending on the tuning and position error. At the end the visible result will be the same. but if you trend a High speed axis with a very short Coarse Update Rate. you may have a chance to see a very small offset due to the PosErr and Com delay if you do a MRP on Command. You can do the test yourself on a real axis (if virtual axis you will not see anything). That will not have impact on the physical axis behaviors . command in Blue Actual in red MRP on Command example MRP on Actual example regards Hi Vincent, Thank you for this great example. It is very useful. Best regards, n </s>
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<s>[INST] 1763-L16DWD does not appear in RSLogix Micro Starter Lite? Summary: Cannot see 1763DWD controller in listIs there a simple explanation as to why I don't have the option to select a 1763-L16DWD in RSLogix Micro Starter Lite? I thought the Micro Starter Lite covered all 1100 series? [/INST] It might have something to do with the Software Revision of the RSLogix and the age of your processor. If it is a newer controller you might want to download and install the latest revision of RS Logix Micro. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Cannot change module definition in logix19 for my 1756-ENBT. In my module properties i cannot change any of my module definition items for my 1756-ENBT. This works fine using another computer with logix ver19 installed. I have tried repairing and reloading but have had no success. Any help would be appreciated. [/INST] Please add more infos, in order for the request to be complete: Windows OS ? Did you try also other modules or another project? Are you trying offline or online ? Do you get errors, or selections are grayed out, or your changes cannot be accepted, or what else ? May you post screenshots ? - fuzzy logic In order to enhance Forum's contributors reputation, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! Windows XP Professional I only appear to have this on the ENBT 'module definition' of the module properties. When i push the change button it engages like its going to let me change the revision or chassis size, but nothing happens. I can do this on other computers running ver 19 and it works fine both offline and online. I noticed this problem when i tried to create a consumed tag. It let me put the ENBT module in the project, but when i tried to fix the chassis size it would not let me change this once the card was accepted. I had to do it on another computer. Thanks for the added infos. It seems a corruptions of the classic Module Profile...try to read the following technote (TechConnect required): 38271 - Repairing RSLogix 5000 Add-On Profiles for I/O Modules - fuzzy logic In order to enhance Forum's contributors reputation, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! n </s>
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<s>[INST] Could you explain to me what of fuction is about registration swith? Summary: I want to know why we need registration swith? Could you pls expalin to me ? thank you very much [/INST] I mean I don't know what is registration switch for? anybody can help expalain to me? Thanks The registration switch input on a servo drive is used to trap the position of the drive at the instant the switch closes. The logic on board the drive does this to be as fast as possible in getting an accurate position. Even on a fast SERCOS system, the update time is in millisecond time range. CIP motion over Ethernet can have even larger update times. If the trap signal came through regular IO on a PLC rack, there's even more time delay between switch actuation and the command to the drive to trap its position. The fast trap is usually used in conjunction with some sort of move to adjust the position of the axis. The most common uses of this are for print registration of a web or for smart belt conveyor positioning. Smart belt conveyor positioning uses some sort of sensor to detect an object on a moving conveyor belt. The sensor ties to the registration input of the servo drive moving the conveyor belt. The object can appear randomly, so the position information trapped is used to adjust the object's position by advancing or redarding the conveyor belt. This advance or retard action positions the object for the next thing to happen downstream. This could be used to adjust the position of a box on a conveyor to be in the right position for product to be introduced automatically into it. TJ McDermott n </s>
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<s>[INST] Motion Tracking Error At Higher Speeds I am interested in a way to reduce the tracking error in a CIP motion application. The system has two PowerFlex 755 drives operating in CIP motion. The master axis is connected via a non-synchronous belt to a press. Attached to the press is an 842E motion encoder, which the slave axis tracks via a MAG instruction. The problem is that as speed increases, the phase lag of the slave axis increases. In order to correct this I use series of MAM steps to phase advance and retard over the speed range, but I would like to find a better solution. Any input appreciated, thanks. [/INST] When you say non-synchronous belt you're talking about a V-belt or flat belt, right? No chance of changing it to a timing belt or chain drive? Could you gear the slave to the master drive instead of the intermediate encoder? What about using the motion axis registration function (MAR)? https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/26388/loc/en_US You may have to trend the master position, encoder position, and slave position to try to quantify the slippage and write your own compensation algorithm. One possible method would be to use a virtual axis slaved to the master that emulates the encoder. It would provide the no-slip position information and the delta between the virtual and the encoder would be the correction you need to apply to the slave. Correct, a V-Belt application and we cannot change that part. Ideally it would be a synchronous coupling and in those applications I have used a virtual master with both motors slaved to that and then they physically stay synchronized perfectly over the speed range since their position errors grow at the same rate on each motor. I am using the MAR for setting the true position every time the machine starts, but as a way of maintaining phase it gets quite ugly. The slave axis has a registration or phase value that changes for different orders or preference of the operator. There gets to be several offsets then in the logic and I'm wanting to keep it as straightforward as possible. I think it is the same result using the method you suggested above of the virtual slaved to the master to find the delta. It would be good if I were always targeting a single phase relationship but this application is dynamic. There are MAMs and MAJs on top of the running MAG. Currently I'm using an empirical table like the compensation algorithm you mentioned and will probably just expand that to include more points over the speed range to maintain the phase relation. Thanks for the suggestions! Hi, Austin Did you ever try by using virtual master? Terence Yes, if both motors were synchronously coupled and could not accumulate error the virtual master is ideal. I've used that with great success, unfortunately this application is not synchronous and will not work with that design. Thanks! - Austin n </s>
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<s>[INST] Configuring the communications and user security, on Factory Talk SE 5.1 I am working with Factory Talk SE 5.1The problem I am running into is that every time a make a modification to the project and I transfer it to the machine, where we need to run it I have to reconfigured all of the security settings and the communication settings is this the way it should be done? Do I need to do this every time I reload the project? Or there is something that I need to do deferent? Your help will be appreciatedThank you in advance [/INST] Hi Mendoza, please take a look to the following indications, taken from the Installation Guide: About restoring System information with the application In FactoryTalk View Studio, in a local application, the top-level System folder contains FactoryTalk Security information, including user accounts set up for all applications using the same FactoryTalk Local Directory (also called the Local Directory). When you back up a local application, this FactoryTalk system information is saved to the archive automatically. When you restore a local application, you can choose whether to restore the system information with the application. To restore FactoryTalk system information with a local application In the Application Manager tool, after specifying the archive to restore, select the option, Restore the FactoryTalk View SE (local) application and FactoryTalk Local Directory. To complete the operation, the user logged on to the Application Manager must have FactoryTalk administrative rights at the Local Directory being restored. I suggest to review the entire chapter 6 of that manual to have a complete descriptions of the steps to take to realize what you need. - fuzzy logic Thank you for your response but think that is what I have bin trying but the problem is after I restored the .apa file I click on the Runtime Security in the explorer tree and all of my users names got changed to a log digit number, the Permissions are correct but all the user names are numbers instead of names like operator or supervisor they are 1F2B7B38_46C_EF4CE0C65109, do you know what am I doing wrong? All of the Device Shortcuts in communication set-up for Rslinx Enterprise need to be remapped to the PLC’S, it almost looks like they lost the privies mapped settings….? This is expected behavior when the FactoryTalk Local Directory is not restored. When it is restored, all usernames appear as correct. However restoring the FactoryTalk Local Directory will overwrite the local PC FT Local Directory. The latter needs to be considered when restoring a .apa file. (For instance, after restoring, you may not be able to log into any FactoryTalk application, including Studio, if you do not know the proper login and passwords from the restored FT.) See also the following:How to back up and restore a FactoryTalk Directory (Local and Network). Other useful technotes: Aid 55703 - Aid 43543 Hope this helps.... - fuzzy logic This looks like it is a very complex procedure to back up and restore the applications for the Factory Talk SE I hope Rock well comes up with something better thank you for all your help n </s>
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<s>[INST] Using MSG instruction over Ethernet Can I use MSG instruction to comunicate two controllers over dfferents subnets using WAN beetwen them? Using ENBT module in both? I've already configured over the same subnet. Thanks. [/INST] joscata, You should be able to do this as long as the Subnet Masks and IP Gateway addresses are set correctly on the ENBTs, you have a valid IP route (configured and happy gateways/routers/etc.) between the subnets, and no firewall blocking the IP port number(s) for CIP packets. I think the MSG default timeouts are probably sufficient, depending on your WAN speed, but you'll certainly want to monitor for .ER bits and handle retries, whatever. It would probably be a good idea to take your notebook, set up its ethernet port with an available IP address on one subnet, with mask/gateway set up, and make sure your can ping the ENBT on the other subnet. Do this from each end. If you can ping the ENBTs from opposite subnets but you can't get the ENBTs to talk using MSGs, check for firewall settings that block IP ports for CIP traffic. Might want to have some packet sniffing software handy to see what's happening on the wire, trap IP port numbers, etc. Most critical, though: the subnet mask and gateway IP settings need to be correct in the ENBTs' port setups -- if wrong, all further effort is for naught. Good Luck!Dale, W8ABZ It all falls back to somewhere on your network you need a router or a managed layer 3 switch with routing capabilities. Set the gateway address in your ENBT to the router (gateway) address and configure the router to re-route to the different subnet. It's not hard but it IS based on the mfg of router you'll be using. All are similiar...but different. n </s>
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<s>[INST] 1756-SYNCH FO cable limitation according to SynchLink design guide ( publication 1756-TD008A-EN-P-Aug2002) page 3-10 and other references, the max length of fiber optical cable is 300 meters and cable splicing is not permitted, when we look at AB cable product 1403-CFxxx, all this cable are not armoured, it might be damaged when routine from one panel to 2nd panel, so what I am thinking the aroumed cable is required from 1st panel to 2nd panel, however, it required FO cable patch panel and cable splicing. so, if the two panels distance is more than 300 meters, is any better suggestion to solve the FO cable limitation? [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] FT GO TO DISPLAY BUTTON Summary: GO TO DISPLAY BUTTON NOT WORKINGHello, I have just finished a project and during testing i have found an issue, i have a go to display button on the main screen which works initially but when you navigate back this screen the go to button does not work, i have tried deleting and replaced it but i always get the same problem. Any ideas would be great [/INST] Is your main screen set to On Top and the second screen Replace? This is in the Display Settings (right-click on display background) Yes its all set right, if i add another goto display button for a different screen on the same display this works fine when you navigate back, i have got round it by not using the main display at the moment Re-reading my comment, I sould clarify that if the main is set to On Top and the second screen is Replace, it won't work. I usually do all On Top. I will try that thanks n </s>
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<s>[INST] FactoryTalk® View Site Edition: Cache After Displaying How I configure this? Conserve system resources, limit the total number of displays in the cache to 40. This includes displays loaded using this option or using the Display /Z or /ZA command. Also, limit the number of displays that are displayed or minimized simultaneously to 40. [/INST] HI Alfredo how are you , to achieve a great performance, follow below recommendations 1. NEVER use /ZA or option to always updating tag , not make sense updating a displays that is closed ( or you are running some specific feature ) 2. USE Cach , and configure (Tools/ FactoryTalk View SE Cache File Management Too... ) to max as possible. 3. from FTView SE Client Wizard , be sure that you configure option 3. Advanced settings as Multi-monitor ( if you are using more than 1 monitor, this is MANDATORY ) and =>Other options, UNCHECK Maintain client tag connection ( this is is like /ZA, always strangle FTLinx and can cause Anomaly at your system. n </s>
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<s>[INST] FTAE Redundancy Workaroud I have found a workaround for a redundnat SE server to be able to get FTAE working for a new project that also utilizes Win911. I added a third rslinx enterprise server under its own area and hosted it on a seperate PC then enabled alarm and event support, setup a topic pointing to my PLC and enabled FTAE on the topic. Now I am getting alarms appearing on my new HMI screens and the specter win911 software is also happy. I know I do not have redundancy on the FTAE portion but at least I can get the benefits until the next version of FTView supports it. My question is Rockwell is there any danger doing this? My redundant servers host screens for a good chunk of our plant taking them down could cause some major grief. I have very good PC server hardware HP DL380s with redundant everything. [/INST] You won't be introducing any instabilities by using a non-redundant FTAE on a separate computer. The only risk I can see, and you already know this, is that if the FTAE computer crashes, you won't have any alarming. That's my opinion. Maybe the higher powers at Rockwell will comment further?.... n </s>
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<s>[INST] RSView32 USers creation problems Summary: Help with creation of usersHi, I have an application that runs RSView32 on Windows XP, when I try to create users in windows XP, the are detected by the RSView Runtime application, but when I input the password, the system shows an error and the user cannot log in. Any suggestions? Thanks. [/INST] Chances to know details about the error you got ? - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! The only error that the screens displays is that I input incorrectly the password for that user name, but I always input 1234 as a password, which I program previously on the Windows XP user creation screen. Try to see if the following helps: 45012 - User Authentication failed. Please check that your user name and password is correct 21673 - RSView32 WebServer did not accept your RSView32 login name and password - Click the Login button to continue - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! Hi, this are the screens from my HMI RSView32 application. I tried several solutions from Rockwell, but none seem to work. 1. I first go into the RSView application and try to log my user name. 2. The system shows the RSview Incorrect password attempt for user [dbujan]. 3. I go into windows LOCAL USERS AND GROUPS and reset the password for this user name, and the problem repeats. 4. As a added feature, I have the settings on the security tab like this (see picture #3) 2. To verify that the password is correct, under System, double-click Command Line. Type LOGIN and press Enter. This will allow you to log on as that user here in RSView32. If this works, then the username and password are correct. If it fails, then one or the other are incorrect and need to be fixed. Chances are that the password is not the one you think it is. - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! I will try these suggestions tomorrow and let you know. The passwords I use is rather simple its aaaa for the first user, and it does not work at all. However, I will try the trick on the command windows to see if it works. REgards. Hi, I tried the suggested attemp to perform a login, the machien keeps telling me that the passwords is wrong, even when the WINDOWS user accounts are sync with the RSView32 application, also, I use the windows application Local Users and Groups to reset the password, but it seems that the application is not getting the new password, even when I reset Windows XP. Hi, I had my Windows User names linked to the RSView32 application, also used the windows application in SAFE Mode to change passwords and it didnt work, the only solution was to DISABLE WINDOWS USER NAME to RSVIEW32, and to create the users names directly on the HMI program (RSVIEW WORKS), that seems to worked just fine. Do you have a suggestion to make the windows user names to work on the RSView application?> So far I have been unable to perform such task. Regards. Here following an excerpt from the RSView32 User's Guide: Creating user accounts You can create user accounts in the User Accounts editor, or, if the computer on which RSView32 is installed is running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows Vista, you can create user accounts by adding users from the Windows domain user list. You cannot use both Windows and RSView32 to maintain user accounts in the same project. When you use the Windows user list you can’t enter or change user names or passwords in the User Accounts editor, but you can specify login and logout macros. All users you add from the Windows user list must be in the same Windows domain. All Windows users added to the RSView32 User Accounts will have the same security codes as DEFAULT in the User Accounts editor. Once you have added users from the Windows user list, you will have to specify security access for each user you added in the RSView32 User Accounts editor. - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! n </s>
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<s>[INST] Need Help with Micrologix, RSView32 and Visual basic 6 Hello, I'm a new user and i need help with a project... I got a micrologix 1500 plc. I made an easy program which includes a timer, and i got a display on RSVIEW 32 in which i can see the accumulator of the timer as a tag in a trendx chart, and with the vb editor i want to display a screen to show in a textbox the same tag, the accumulator of the timer in real time. The problem is that i don't know how the code would be to do this. Can someone help me please? [/INST] Why would you use VBA to do something the product does out of the box , just drop a numerical display object and link it to the tag Job Done...... If you just what to learn how to do VBA in RSView32 just search the knowledgebase there are a lot of examples n </s>
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<s>[INST] SCM-FLEX wiring to e-stop safe-off system I have SCM-FLEX soft starts that are wired as per typical start-stop control via DPI communications with a control relay wired to aux [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] set up communication factory talk view studio with rslogix 5000 emulate Hello, I would like to ask you guys something, How to set up communication factory talk view studio with rslogix 5000 emulate? I am looking forward to get a feedback from you guys! Thanks for your time, Regards Mahruzar [/INST] Welcome to the Forum ! Here below some hints: In RSLogix Emulate 5000 perform the following steps: Launch the Chassis Monitor (Start--> Programs--> Rockwell Software--> RSLogix Emulate 5000--> RSLogix Emulate 5000 Chassis Monitor).If no emulator is already configured, right-click on an empty slot and select Create (see the red note below). Take all the defaults.These steps are required to download a program to the emulator in RSLogix 5000. NOTE: If the Emulator is already configured and running a program, the following steps can be skipped: In Controller Properties, change the processor type to Emulator.Make sure that the revision matches the software version of RSLogix Emulate 5000.In Comms-->Who Active, configure the processor's communication path to point to the AB Virtual backplane driver (typically named ABVBP-1 1789-A17/A Virtual Chassis).Download the program to the emulator. The processor's mode can be changed to Program or Run using RSLogix 5000, or by right-clicking on the emulator in the Chassis Monitor.In View SE or View ME perform the following steps: Open View Studio and open the desired project.In the Application Explorer, expand RSLinx Enterprise and double-click Communication Setup.Point the shortcut to the emulator. The default driver name is 1789-A17, Backplane.If the emulator does not immediately appear, right-click the driver and make sure the drive is browsing.If RSLinx Enterprise sees the wrong emulator, select that emulator, right-click it and select Delete.After this, once again, right-click the driver and start browsing again.If you cannot see the folders and tags from Tag Browser, stop RSLinx Enterprise service thru Administrative Tools >> Services and restart it.Things to be aware of: RSLinx Classic and RSLinx Enterprise must be configured to run as a service.DO NOT place the PLC in slot 1 of the Emulator Chassis Monitor. RSLinx Enterprise will occupy this slot by default.Examine the Emulator Chassis Monitor. You should see RSLinx in slot 0 (RSLinx Classic) and slot 1 (RSLinx Enterprise).Hope this helps, - fuzzy logic Thank you very much for solution... Still cannot see the folders and tags from Tag Browser,I was try to stop RSLinx Enterprise service thru Administrative Tools >> Services and restart it.Still i am cannot see the folders and tags from Tag Browser, Note, my computer was installed : RSlogix 5000 V16, rslink v2.51 and Factorytalk Studio Machine Edition V5.00 So guys, can solve the problems Thanks how about setting up the communication between factory talk view and rslogix emulate 500 See the attached document, Krishna. Dear Fuzzy Logic Sorry before, the solution from you is right. My fault : My computer installed RS Logix 5000 V15, V16 and V18 and RS Logix 5000 Emulator V17, and my project in RS Logix 5000 Revision 16.After that i am uninstalled my computer..Than i am installed RS Logix 5000 V15 & V16, RS Logix 5000 Emulator V16, Factory Talk View V5.10 and my project in RS Logix 5000 Revision 16.Test set up communication factory talk view studio with rslogix 5000 emulate according your solution. Test OK.Solution OK. Thanks Very Much Guys.... n </s>
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<s>[INST] Studio 5000 v31 crashing regularly Summary: Studio 5000 v31 crashing regularlyUPDATE: 2019/01/03 - I installed Windows 10 x64 on a new VM in late December, no crashes so far. It looks like the issue lies somewhere within the Win 7 x64 Pro VM that I was running. Logix version 31.01; VM RAM is 2GB and it has access to 2 processor threads (95% execution cap); RAM usage sits at around 1.4GB and it never seems to run slow; I'll bump it up to 4GB later in the year when I have finished the projects I'm working on. I am running Studio 5000 v31 and am having regular crashes (1 - 2 times daily); this hasn't happened on any other version I have run; GID objects were around 4000 at the time. Happened when I tried to rename a tag offline. It has happened so often now that I am saving every time I am about to rename a tag; I am developing a new system so tag renames are a common occurrence. Error text: Application path: [standard install path] Elapsed execution time: 4 hours, 6 minutes, & 40 seconds Version: V31.00.00 (Release) Location: 0xffffffffffffffff +-1 OS Version: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit Thread Id: 00001dbc (7612) Error 0xe06d7363 (-529697949) RxEXCEPTION_MICROSOFT_C_PLUS_PLUS - A Microsift C++ exception was generated but not handled. [/INST] Happened again; this time just changing the description of tag Welcome to the Forum! Try to see if the following technotes could help: https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/50455/page/1 https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/492404/page/1 - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! Thanks for the reply; these issues are not really what I am having an issue with. The user jorgef has the same issue; where editing a file that is already open. Jan, if you have a techconnect account, I STRONGLY suggest you contact Rockwell Tech Support about this problem. You'll be helping all of us if you do. These forums are not officially monitored by Rockwell employees but your problem sounds like a software bug that must be solved from within Rockwell. I hope someone from Rockwell sees your posting and forwards it to the correct group to look into it. You contacting tech support is the best thing to get this solved. Jan, I know the indicated technotes are not related to the same behavior in using the software, but the same error. Sometimes, the suggested solutions work anyway, if the error is the same. Beside this, I can say I've the same OS as you, and using v31.00.00, I can't see the issue. If nothing seems to solve, I'm agree with TJ, call Technical Support and let them know there are many users with a similar issue. - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! Same here, I have noticed that it happens when I am modifying UDTs. No solution has worked so far. I submitted a service ticket on 11th November; still no response to it. Strangely I don't have permission to view my own in progress service ticket. That means Rockwell used a different email address for you when they created the service ticket. This happens to me quite frequently. Call. Don't wait for them to email you. Keep calling. Possible solution. There might be a slow memory leak; I upped the RAM on my VM and haven't had an issue for a while now. RAM may have been a bit low at 2GB so I upped it to 8GB, the RAM usage has crept up from 1.35GB used a few hours ago to 1.9GB now. I will probably reduce the RAM on the VM back to 4GB in a few days. I started looking into this because I had a random crash; no changes were happening at the time; I was just reading through some code. I will update tomorrow if I don't have any more crashes. Ok so I have had a few more crashes; but the frequency seems to have dropped. I upgraded to v31.01 to see if that helped but the crashes continue. Note: max RAM usage so far has be 2.1GB so if there is a memory leak it is very slow; obviously all the memory is released when logix crashes so I can't confirm continued memory use growth over more then a ~4hours Following up on this; the crashes continued. Seems random and sometimes happening 3 times an hour. I can't pin it down to a specific action other then renaming tags and editing comments. Most of the time it works fine but every now and then Logix just crashes. I installed v31.01 on a Windows 10 64bit VM. No crashes in two days. Seems that there is an issue with Win7 Pro 64bit that v31.00 and v31.01 are subject to. I have the same problem. I am running V31 on Windows 10 Pro with the latest windows updates and the Logix Designer crashes once an hour. This happened on another laptop with roughly the same specifications. Try changing the Resolution of screen to 100% or lower. This is the screenshot of error (not exactly same error as posted above but close) This issue was resolved when I changed my screen resolution (windows display settings) to 100% from 125%. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Update Studio 5000 PLC Code Is it possible to create an executable that could be released to our client PLC's such that they can update their PLC's with our latest code without having them use Studio 5000? [/INST] You can store it to SD card if its configured to update that way. We want to do this over the internet. Such that they can be updated globally/remotely. I would hope there would be significant Cybersecurity processes in place to prevent that from happening. What you ask would require access coordination between the customer endpoints and your client systems and it is becoming increasingly risky to allow that. I suppose you could send a sdcard image they burn to a card and then update... Not even sure that would work though, there's likely to be some protection that would not allow that. And if that protection does not exist now, then it will in some future update. Daniel, the following technote is related to your request and is explaining a way you can try using an SD card, as suggested by Splash. QA13994 - Load a Program on Another Logix Controller Using an SD Card Please consider that a TechConnect contract is required to access the above technote. Hope this helps, fuzzy logic Please don't forget to LIKE and highlight the decisive answer: REPLY > Make Best Answer n </s>
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<s>[INST] Powerflex 700 fault 121 I am experienceing this fault and did a search of the forum and found this, but it was left unresolved. http://forums.rockwellautomation.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Drives/message-id/2212 . I was wanting to see if anyone has found a resolution to this fault. I have replaced all components in the VFD, then replaced the VFD. I am still getting the fault occasionally. Any ideas on what to check next? [/INST] We went into the VFD bucket, MCC and also the motor and tightened all of the ground connections. This seems to have fixed it. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Removing CLX Tags From Scan in View SE I am told by a Rockwell rep that my version RXView 4.0 (CPR 7) does not release tags from being on-scan in RSView SE and could result in an overflow in memory use. I have a 1756-L63 and a 1756-L61 that go into Unrecoverable Major Fault on occasion and one suggestion was to reduce tag count in SE. I can identify a great number of tags that can be removed and have done so, but the number of data items doesn't change and I would like to get the tags off scan without interupting my process. Both of these processors are part of a RSBatch installation and the suggestion was the bandwidth from so many tags may be causing problems in the processors. Does anyone have an idea as to how to take these tags off of scan in SE? [/INST] Automator, taking tags off scan in SE is a matter of shutting down whatever component is requesting data for tags. This could mean shutting down one or more of the following:GraphicsAlarmingDataloggingEvent DetectorsDerived TagsUnfortunately, this is not like RSView32, where I could just disable a node to talk tags off scan. If I had a nickle for every time I've asked for that feature, I'd be rich. I don't know if this helps you much, but I offer it for what it's worth. n </s>
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<s>[INST] PanelView plus 1250 Graphics, tags, alarms Summary: PanelView plus 1250 Graphics, tags, alarmsCould someone please tell me how many graphics the PanelView Plus supports, as well as how many alarms and tags. [/INST] edit: better described There are predefined limits in ViewME.....however, you may also experience limitations in terms of how you use the system....it depends from many factors... I suggest to read the following technote for ViewME limitations: https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/36839 You may also search the knowledgebase for ME best practice as well. - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! Thanks so much There IS a hard limit on the number of tags that an individual display of an application can have. One of the engineers at my firm discovered this on a rather large monitoring project. I believe the top end is 2000 tags per display. Yes TJ, that limit is indicated inside the suggested technote: 1000 HMI/Device Tags per display. I've been in the same situation of the engineer you mentioned, once... and I was quite surprised... - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! n </s>
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<s>[INST] Stop/Run to the PLC from RSLogix5000 Summary: Is it possible to Stop the PLC from the RSLogix5000 software ?Is it possible to Stop the PLC from the RSLogix5000 software ? [/INST] Stop as in put it in Remote Program? Yes The closest you could do is simply disable all the JSRs with a contact (or use a JMP and LBL to jump over all JSRs with your stop condition), but as far as I know you can't change to program mode in the logic. You can monitor the run status of the controller by using the GSV instruction, class name ControllerDevice, attribute name Status, put an INT tag into the Dest: Bits 3-0 are reserved Device Status Bits Bits 7-4 Meaning 0000 reserved 0001 flash update in progress 0010 reserved 0011 reserved 0100 flash is bad 0101 faulted modes 0110 run 0111 program Fault Status Bits Meaning Bits 11-8 0001 recoverable minor fault 0010 unrecoverable minor fault 0100 recoverable major fault 1000 unrecoverable major fault Logix5000 Specific Status Bits Bits 13-12 Meaning 01 keyswitch in run 10 keyswitch in program 11 keyswitch in remote Bits 15-14 Meaning 01 controller is changing modes 10 debug mode if controller is in Run mode n </s>
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<s>[INST] Improper configuration of a 1746-IB16 (Sink) Input card Could someone please elaborate on the possible consequences of improperly configuring this I/O card. I have found a machine process within our facility which has 4 devices on this card which are improperly configured. 3 of these devices are parker cylinder proximity switches in an NPN/sink configuration. I understand that according to AB Answer ID [/INST] I don't know if that configuration is the cause of your issue, anyway such this connection, although is working, is not recommended... As you have all NPN signals, consider the possibility to use a 1746-IV16 module instead... this will *cleanup* wiring and doubts...:smileywink: - fuzzy logic That's just it. This is a 16 port card... I apologize, I guess I was a bit misleading having identified only the four mis-configured devices. I have sourcing devices on the card as well. I've already reconfigured the set of N.O. contacts by removing the ground, replacing it with a B+, switching to the available N.C. contacts of the same switch, and eliminated the pull-up resistor. This makes more sense to me than yanking a floating/pulled-up signal low by grounding the input. The issue of the three remaining 'NPN / Sink' type devices on a Sink card still needs to be addressed. The fact that the configuration is a direct contradiction of Allen Bradley answer ID# 18726 isn't enough to convince some administrative *&^%$^%@#s that it's wrong as long as it's working. As far as I'm concerned, as long as this machine is experiencing intermittent issues I question if it is in fact actually working... Best practices be damned, I guess what I'm looking for is someone that remembers their basic electronics, (After 30 years I certainly don't) to tell me it's wrong and why. I'm thinking along the line of internal circuit impedance and dielectric strengths... In the meantime, I just noticed that reference to another doc = G18865. I'm going after that. Thanks for your reply! If you want to convert your NPN inputs to PNP go ahead and wire a relay or better yet some companies sell inverters from NPN to PNP. We tend to use inverters if we don't have proper sensor at the time of failure. We've ordered the correct sensors but I'll look into the inverters for future reference. Thanks! n </s>
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<s>[INST] Import manual entry tags from excel, csv or xml Summary: Is there any way to batch import VP tags instead of manually creating them? For my application I am using a lot of manual entry tags and general Incuity tags. However I haven't found a way I can define them in excel or text and then import them. Does anyone know a method for doing so? If I export a folder to .icp I can't find a way to modify so I can add tags and then import. Any help appreciated! Daniel. [/INST] I believe .icp files are in XML format. You could download XML Notepad and try to edit the package that way. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7973 Not sure if this will help, but it was a thought. William Hobbs Thanks William, Actually that's what I finally discovered after trying many different alternatives. it does work. You can mass-edit and create new tags and folder structures with this method. However need to make sure you don't unzip the .icp, just edit the xml files and copy them back into de .icp without decompressing the files. Cheers. Daniel. n </s>
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<s>[INST] RsLogix 500 FFU will not unload EDIT: moved to Legacy community -FL This logic for a Vision sorter works perfect with one Vision XG system on several machines. I am trying to add a Second Vision IV2 system. When I add this second Vision system input, FIFO will load FFL from N7:30 to N7:40, but FFU won't unload from N7:40 to N7:50. The only thing I can think that will cause this is That the IV2 good is delayed by milliseconds from the XG good input. But then I would think that the problem would be with the FFL. [/INST] This was actually a pretty simple fix. I was using the first vision system to load FFL, so I just had to change it to load from second vision system OK signal (I was loading it too soon). It only took me a week, but I'm glad I worked my way through it. n </s>
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<s>[INST] VB: passing a list box to a sub I am have some issues with passing a listbox object to a subroutine in VB. Here is a brief example of what I want to do. Private Sub Button6_Released() Call ListFiles(Me.ListBox1) End Sub Private Sub ListFiles(lstBox As ListBox) lstBox.Clear lstBox.AddItem test End Sub According to many, many vb forums out there on the web, this is how it is done. Can anyone explain to me what FTView does differently with VBA so this doesn't work? Note: the line 'lstBox.Clear' works! I can add items to the listbox1 from another button and direct reference (Me.ListBox1.additem abc), then when I run the code above, all text is cleared from the list box but the additem method generates the following error: Run-time error '-2147417851 (80010105)': Automation errorThe server threw an exception. Any Ideas? [/INST] This might help you, I think.. Ensure to make Listbox1 and Button6 expose to VBA in property panel, then write. Private Sub Button6_Released() ListBox1.ClearListBox1.AddItem (Line #1) ListBox1.AddItem (Line #2) ListBox1.AddItem (Line #3) End Sub Thanks for your reply. I don't have any problems adding items to a list box in the method you mentioned. The example I wrote was for concept only. The most important part of my example is passing a listbox as an object to a routine. This is where FTView chokes. If you look at my example and imagine 20 pushbuttons instead of only one that need to do similar work on 20 different listboxes. Also imagine that the code in the subroutine I call is more complex and performs a lot more work. I don't want to have to replicate the complex code 20 times. That's where the single subroutine is used and the buttons pass their respective listbox as a reference. This would clean things up a ton. I'm not sure if it would apply to your usecase, but I pass all objects in FTView vba as object.Everytime I decide to go and clean things up by using variables of the right type for things like that I've gotten errors and have to revert to using object. Example: Private Sub CBoxSelect(CBox As Object) On Error GoTo errorTrap'Do something Exit SuberrorTrap: LogDiagnosticsMessage Error: [ & Hex(Err.Number) & ] & _ Errordescrition, ftDiagSeverityError End Sub Private Sub ComboBox1_Click() On Error Resume Next Call CBoxSelect(Me.ComboBox1) End Sub I have not tried your method and it may work but i found a way that works. Instead of defining my parameter as a listbox, I defined it as an activeXcontrol like this: Private Sub Command_Click( ) Call ListFiles(Me.ListBox1)End Sub Private Sub ListFiles(lstX as ActiveXControl) lstX.clear lstX.additem somethingEnd Sub FTView SE seems to like this and not throw back any errors. Just a comment, but that cost me an hour. I AM a VB programmer and THAT is ridiculous. Thanks for solution, ActiveXControl it is! n </s>
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<s>[INST] indirectly index array in Global Object Summary: Is there a way to indirectly index an array in a Global ObjectIf I have an array of data for a device of 20 or more elements (array[0] - array[19]), and I have several of these devices so I put this in a Global Object. Is there a way to pass a single parameter ( [/INST] nan n </s>
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<s>[INST] E46 erro in K6K Somebody knows what is the E46 error in Kinetix?Thank you [/INST] Hi No such error exists. The E46 is reserved for expansion to the U3K drive. Check the error number again and go to: http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/qr/motion-qr004_-en-p.pdf to get the Quick Error Overview Card. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Migration from FTSE Station to Network Server/Client Summary: FTSE Station to Network Server/Client Is it possible to migrate from FTSE Station to Network Server/Client by buying additional Client License? All responses are appreciated. [/INST] If you want to migrate from Station to Server/Client, there are a couple ways to do so: 1) Buy a server/client license outright to replace the Station license 2) This should fall under the StepForward program, which would allow you to trade in the Station license towards to purchase of the Server/Client license. You would need to call your local distributor to have them facilitate this. It's an involved process. Thanks! Thank you very much ikarimaru for your prompt response. I appreciate that. n </s>
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<s>[INST] PF 755 syncronized velocity Hello experts. I want to impelement a application with 2 PF755 involved. They are configurated as thw differenet axes in the same Motion Group as Position Loop. The first drive moves at a certain velocity using the JOG command, and I want that the second drive to move at the same velocity as the first one. They have differnent gear reduction, so I was thinking of using the MAG instruction. It wil be ok? [/INST] That is exactly what the MAG instruction is for. You'll need to configure your axes properly - the configuration is where you would enter the gear ratios (though they are not called that precisely). Spend time reviewing the programming manuals for CIP motion to understand the axis configuration. Ok. It works fine. Another question: I want to implement a combination of two Power Flex drives. One PF755 and onother PF525 drive. The PF755 is used as Motion control, and the PF525 as Velocity control. Is there any way to syncronize the velocity of the PF525 to the velocity of the PF755? I am not speaking about scaling units , is there any way to do it using another method? Sure. You can do any conversion you want and send it out to the 525 over Ethernet/IP. The drive gets added to the IO tree and part of the data structure for the drive will include a tag reference for velocity reference. Or, you can go old school send it via analog output from the processor to the analog input of the drive. If you're looking for something specific, you need to give more details. Just imagine the Gear between the two PF755 mentioned above. It will be something like that but now using a PF755 and a PF525. PF525 is not a motion drive, so MAG will not work. PF527 IS a motion axis, so MAG would work. Have you already purchased the PF525 drive? If you already are constrained to use the PF525, then you will have to do mathematical conversions to calculate the speed reference to be sent to the 525 over Ethernet/IP, OR, convert to the analog PLC output to feed the drive's analog input which would use it as a speed reference. Either way, you will have a number of mathematical instructions or CPT instructions to derive the speed reference of the 525 from the PF755's velocity. Finnaly I have used two PF755 drives and I use MAG instruction but I have a problem. Just imagine that I start the movement with a JOG instruction on the master AXIS, then I start the MAG instruccion and the movement starts ok. Then I modify my master speed with the MCD instruction and when I want to stop the movement, I stop it with the MAS instruction. The problem is that the axis does not stop synchronized, the Master axis stops, but it does not takes in count the decceleration ramp, and the slave axis does not follows the master axis in the stop movement. How can I made a synchronized stop? The slave axis does not follow the deceleration ramp of the master? Or do you mean the master does not decelerate as you expect? I do not understand which axis is giving you problems. The slave axis will maintain its MAG through a master axis decel - I know this works. What is your application (what are the two axes moving)? Is the slave tuned well? What are the parameters used in the MAJ? What are the parameters used in the MAG? What are the parameters used in the MCD? What are the parameters used in the MAS? In the attached file you may see that I have a Master roll and the Slave Belts. So the Slave follows the Master Roll. I have no problem when I accelerate and deccelerate using MCD instruction, and the slave follows without any problem the master. Also the Slave and the Master are tuned well, and they work fine. No strange noises, intensity fine, everything well. The problem came when I use the MAS instruction. I have tryed using all the Stop Types of movement and the slave axis do not deccelerate the same time as the master. I also think that may be a programming issue, but right now I don´t know where to look from. We need to see the axis properties of the slave axis at the least - seeing both would be better. If you're going to show only screen shots and not the actual program, we'll need to see the acceleration loop properties, planner properties, velocity, and position loop tabs. Also show the parameters of the original JOG command. We need to see the accel and decel settings of it, but show the full parameter list. Your MAS is set to change the decel rate to 900 units / sec^2. How does that relate to the maximum decel rate of the master, and how does that relate to the maximum decel rate of the slave? In my experience, it's much easier to set accel and decel rates in terms of percent (change the units of the instruction). I suggest you change the MAS in this manner. Try setting the MAS to use a decel of 50%. Then increase or decrease it as needed to maximize your stop performance without losing the synchronization. I just have read into the MAG help and they say something like this: The maximum velocity, acceleration, or deceleration limits established during axis configuration do not apply to electronic gearing. The Slave will stop to the deccelerating rate of the Master. Later I will upload some pictures. javier, if the accel/decel exceeds that defined in the axis configuration, you'll likely end up causing a position fault. It's one reason why you should show us the axis configurations. If your position error tolerance is set very high, that would explain the behavior you're seeing - the axis simply cannot keep up with the deceleration demanded by the MAS. You should upload the application; we can give you the best help possible if we can see the whole application instead of feeding it to us one bit at a time. Javier - what's the word? What did you discover? n </s>
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<s>[INST] Rockwell vulnerabilities Hello I've never used this form before and I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but do we have some settings somewhere that we can pass along to customers so they can get automatic notification of when Rockwell knows of a security vulnerability? [/INST] Hello and welcome to Engage! You can point your customers out to the following technote: PN1354 - Industrial Security Advisory Index This Industrial Security Advisory Index is a publicly available resource and subscription service that points to specific Rockwell Automation product security alerts, advisories and security recommendations. It is constantly updated in case a new security risk arises. Customers can also add the technote to their favorite list, using the dedicated button, so that they can receive automatic notifications when it is updated. Here are a couple of technotes that can help in managing Favorites and Notifications: QA5607 - Can I save a list of my favorite answers? IP647 - Configuring your Notification Preferences Please Note: as far as I know the notification system is currently unavailable in the Support Center. You can still select answers to put them in the Favorites list, so the links are stored and available to you, but no emails are being sent at this time. Anyway, a manual notification system exists for Product Notices (PNs), Product Safety Advisories (PSAs) and Security Disclosures which can let you receive those kind of e-mail notification in any case. See the following POST from Mark for details. Hope this helps, fuzzy logic Please don't forget to use the LIKE button and highlight the decisive answer : REPLY > Make Best Answer thanks for the info. Hey Scott, Fuzzy tagged me in here as he knows I work for RSS. Whilst everything Fuzzy has said is correct, he omitted the manual notification system that does exist for Product Notices (PNs), Product Safety Advisories (PSAs) and Security Disclosures. What you need to configure is your notification settings that can be found here; https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/account/overview Every time the Safety and Security group release a product notification, we use these settings to generate the mailing list for notifications. In fact I just did two this morning (RSS are responsible for creation of the technote versions of the product notifications and email notifications)! Hope that helps. Mark. Thank you Mark for chiming in! I knew I asked the right person! I actually have manual notifications for PN / PSA / security ALL selected within my profile ... I just didn't know it was up and running! Thanks, fuzzy logic Please don't forget to use the LIKE button and highlight the decisive answer : REPLY > Make Best Answer Ok.But just so a I am clear the automatic email notification still doesn't work. Correct? That is correct, notification on any old technote or category or product does not work. Oracle have completed the necessary product enhancements. It's down to the RA Oracle /KB team to execute on the project. It is on a list, just not scheduled. Full disclosure, I'm not part of that team! Mark. Actually I just got an automatic email just after I replied. So I guess they fixed it. Here it is. Dear scott: Rockwell Automation is releasing this notice titled Log4Shell Vulnerability Notice. You are receiving this notification based on your Rockwell Automation Knowledgebase account and selected PSA/PN/Security profiles of interest. Summary - On December 9, 2021, a vulnerability was announced named Log4Shell by researchers. This vulnerability allows for remote code execution by exploiting the Java Logging Library log4j2. Rockwell Automation is aware of this vulnerability and of how it could, if exploited, potentially impact our customers' environments. Rockwell Automation is diligently working through the process of evaluation on how the mitigation techniques will impact the functionality and performance of the Rockwell Automation hardware, software, and pre-engineered products and solutions that incorporate this software. Rockwell Automation will continue to provide updated information as soon as reliable internal tests are completed. Please click on this link to review Knowledgebase Document ID PN1579 - https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1133605. Rockwell Automation is sending this notification based on a PSA/PN/Security notification profile that includes: Product Category - Information Software & MES Software Thank you for your time, Rockwell Automation expanding human possibilities™ 1201 South Second Street Milwaukee, WI 53204 [email protected] Nope, I wrote and scheduled that earlier today! That was the manual notification process I outlined earlier. Mark. OK. Good to know. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Product Notice 2009-04-001 and 2009-04-002 - PowerFlex 700 Regarding Product Notice 2009-04-001 and 2009-04-002 - PowerFlex 700 NEMA 12 AC Drives: I purchased on 2/1/2008 a powerflex 700 drive PN: 20BD292A3ANNNNC0. I read the article in the knowledge base, and did not the drive listed as having the fan defect mentioned in the product notice. Can you confirm whether or not this drive has the fan defect? If so what is the replacement kit part number? [/INST] For the Product Notices you mentioned, your drive is not listed to have this problem, so you shouldn't be worry about that. :smileyhappy: - fuzzy logic That is what I suspected, thanks for looking in to it. n </s>
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<s>[INST] Drive speed, Devicenet Hi, I have a PowerFlex 700 connected in Devicenet, I want to change the speed from a PV+ who is connected to a compactlogix L35E (through ETH)... I know how to program the parameters of start-stop, faults, active and other easy conditions in the scanner module using RSLogix 5000 and RSNetworks (those things are working right now), but How could I send speed to a PF through Devicenet?.... what is the parameter of speed I need to set in the Dnet scanner module?.... this speed is something I could change in any moment (from 0 to 60)..... Thanks for your time... [/INST] You may find informations and examples in the 20-COMM-D User Manual Anyway, unless you've modified settings, by default you have 4 bytes of output, first two are for Logic Command, remaining two bytes are for the Reference Speed. Just maybe you have all four bytes in the same DINT inside CMX, so you have to use some logic there to separate and use the image correctly ( like BTD or simply a COP moving the output image from scanner to an INT array - like in the example of the User Manual page 5-10) See also Aid 43829 to understand the Reference scaling.... - fuzzy logic Thanks Fuzzy, I saw the answer ID in the knowledgebase,... I saw the example, it looks good, but I think the answer of how many Hz does the motor receive via Devicenet has to be 130Hz, not 1Hz (because you divide 32767 by 130, so I don't know were the 1Hz come from).... MATV, dividing the max decimal value you may enter in that Reference word (that is 32767) by the maximum frequency you have configured for your drive (i.e 130 Hz) you will obtain the decimal value you've to enter to obtain the unit of your frequency range. 32767 / 130 = 252 So that entering for reference: 252 = 1 Hz2520 = 10 Hz25200 = 100 Hz32767 = 130 Hz :smileywink: - fuzzy logic n </s>
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<s>[INST] Power flex70 fault code F511 Summary: Fault code F511I would like to know about power flex 70 Fault code F511? For the system we use controlnet communication (20ComC) and config this port is ( 5 ). Cat no.of power flex is 20A5P0A0AYNANC0 For this code we can't reset [/INST] According to the 20-COMM-C manual, page 199 http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/20comm-um003_-en-p.pdf event 11 means Another peripheral with the same port number is already in use. Do you have another option card installed? Dear Sir No we have only 20-comm-C. What are the PORT and MOD LEDs doing? What color are they, and are they steady or flashing? Dear Sir For the LEDS PORT and MOD was show steady red. Final we change new 20-COMM-C after that the drive and machine can run in normal function. I'm glad you solved your problem. Thank you for your information also. n </s>
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<s>[INST] 1732E-16CFG Fault Code(s) Summary: Armor Block keeps faulting, not sure what fault code meansHello, I am currently using a ControlLogix 5570, and a 1732E-16CFGM12R intermittently faults out. In RSLogix I am using GSV to determine the communication health between the module and the PLC, with the attribute FaultCode being pushed into a DINT. When I trended the corresponding DINT I keep receiving error 515, and I could not readily find any literature listing fault codes and/or how to troubleshoot them. Does anyone know where I can find this information, or what the code itself means? [/INST] Welcome to the Forum ! 515 is the decimal representation of fault code 16#0203 (Connection Timeout) Search the RA Knowledgebase using 16#0203 as keyword; there are many technotes on the matter that could help. The following contains interesting info: 50924 - Difference in 16#0203 and 16#0204 Hope this helps, - fuzzy logic In order to enhance the reputation of the Forum's contributors, please rate the replies you got and remember to close the thread clicking Choose as Best Answer button over the solving answer. Thanks ! n </s>
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