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Today, Sunday, November 22, 2009
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Machine which we are going to do with Rotart shear cutter for cutting metal sheets from 800 mm to 5000 mm
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By Peter Nachtwey on 21 November, 2009 - 11:33 pm -
The shear will need to wait at the top when the cut length is approximately 2X the shear...
By William Sturm on 21 November, 2009 - 11:44 am -
For longer sheets, you just go slower on the backside. You match speed for some angle, say 30...
By Edwin on 20 November, 2009 - 9:41 pm -
Thanks for your reply
I too agree for this, but my doubt is if the shear is 314 mm and we have...
I agree that the rotary cutter should not have to stop between cuts. With a decent controller you...
your customer is correct you should be able to develop a profile for constant motion... you...
By William Sturm on 16 November, 2009 - 12:19 pm -
If you are getting over voltage faults, then you probably do not have enough braking resistors for...
Mark-II is installed on one of our turbines. We have faced grounding faults both Speedtronic and 125VDC fromlast 8 years. Recently i have traced these grounds and rectified them. I have also developed a complete case study of this hectic job.
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Hi, could you please e-mail me the report at lockout07 [at] gmail.com. I'm facing same problem at...
Hi,
please I need a copy of you report.
My email is mk_katep77[at]hotmail.com
Thanks
...
Hi,
Can I have a copy of you report too.
My email is fadzril_idzham [at] yahoo.com
Thanks...
plz email me at: dezerthorse [at] yahoo.com
thankx...
By BB on 17 November, 2009 - 2:10 am -
Hi Adeel,
Thanks a lot for your help, Please send it to my email:
bouarfab [at] yahoo.fr ...
Dear Adeel Imtiaz,
You can check out the ControlWiki website at:
...
By Adeel Imtiaz on 16 November, 2009 - 12:04 am -
Dear CSA,
The report has a lot of snaps/pictures and its in PDF format. Is there any other...
I would think this would be a good candidate for the control.com ControlWiki:
...
Adeel,
Please send it to my email first! :)
adil.ishaque [at] gmail.com...
data mapping between SCADA and OSI-PI System
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By Rob on 21 November, 2009 - 10:42 pm -
PI has very good off-the-shelf interfaces for OPC-DA and OPC-HDA, and a huge reference list of...
How to download master and slave program to S7-400H station.
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By Ranjith on 21 November, 2009 - 9:59 pm -
Dear Marco Thank you for the reply
I can download the Hardware setting/Netpro to my CPU but...
By Marco on 21 November, 2009 - 12:43 pm -
Dear Ranjith,
the right answer to this question depends on many things. Generally, there are...
I Got one PLC program backup in Simatic Manager. In this, if i am searching for Analog/Digital I/Os...
By Vahid on 21 November, 2009 - 7:43 am -
You have to connect to the CPU/PLC via the appropriate port (such as a MPI port), then you could...
I'm looking for samples or real applications for Honeywell HC900 Hybrid PLC.
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By Carl Ellis on 21 November, 2009 - 9:56 pm -
1) Papers from conferences are usually available.
Marian Popescu, "Hierarchical Control...
Can some one please tell me, if there are special conditions considered during the construction of an intrinsically safe cables.
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Dyke,
Intrinsically safe cables are no different to other cables. It is common practice to use...
Flare Gas measurement ultrasonic / optical meters
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Nicholas
I know nothing about optical meters but ultrasonics for that size will be very...
Looking for experiences with running Tristation MSW in a virtual/VMWare DOS environment
We are trying to built up communication of power meter pm-710 with egx-100.
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By John Correa on 21 November, 2009 - 8:10 pm -
One test that you are missing is checking the load to the EGX RS-485 port. May be that you are...
John Correa yes we know about the webpage to read the parameters. We did the same to access each...
By John Correa on 20 November, 2009 - 6:00 pm -
In the EGX you have the option (web page) to read parameters from individual devices. Try it one by...
By GENJUA on 20 November, 2009 - 3:10 am -
Mark, ya i try with end terminal resistor as well.
John Correa, know i am reading only 2...
By John Correa on 19 November, 2009 - 7:10 pm -
Only thing that can suggest (by now) is that you change the update rate of your MB_TCP driver. May...
By Mark on 19 November, 2009 - 5:03 pm -
Hello,
Jumping in the middle here and I might have missed something.
How about termination...
John Correa, sometimes i get the error which is NEGATIVE ACKNOWLDGE and sometimes the error is...
The EGX100 supports a total of 32 open TCP/IP connections at one time with the 2.7 firmware. It...
By John Correa on 18 November, 2009 - 4:28 pm -
Check the error message type in your EGX100. If the error message is TIMEOUT may be something wrong...
Problem after rebooting the Honeywell Plantscape R500
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By ady on 21 November, 2009 - 7:33 pm -
Can I do this on live system? will it affect the controller, or what are the chances of the system...
By Torulf Wiberg on 21 November, 2009 - 8:21 am -
I have experienced this several times and the only way I have found to fix the problem is to...
Temperature Matching System on GE 9FA gas turbine
about temperature control system of mark-iv for frame 6B gas turbine.
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Temperature control system is using in GE turbine to protect turbine hot gas path equipment. Gas...
GE MARK V Manuals
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By Marco on 21 November, 2009 - 3:22 pm -
Hello BB,
please use this:
info [at] digimatrix.de
Thank you very much in advance!
Marco...
By BB on 21 November, 2009 - 1:30 pm -
Let me know your email address.
Regards,
BB...
connecting 4 PLCs via 4 telephone line to a PC for Monitoring
The latest JimPinto.com eNews
We are re-implementing the motion control of an astronomical telescope, and need to include complex calculations (in C code) into the position loop.
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By William Sturm on 21 November, 2009 - 12:30 pm -
I think the PMAC could work really well here, it is extremely flexible. A brief description might...
By M Griffin on 20 November, 2009 - 7:29 pm -
I think I see now how you ended up with a Transputer based solution on the old control system. What...
By anonymous on 20 November, 2009 - 9:55 am -
Hi,
we are using LabVIEW too. Solar telescope, and "Pinocchio". Wi/Fi, Wi/Fi cameras,...
By Steinhoff on 20 November, 2009 - 4:25 am -
> [clip]
> 3) on a PC: i.e. implement everything with a PC and linux compatible hardware....
By Steinhoff on 20 November, 2009 - 4:14 am -
> ==> Automation List post by M Griffin...
> [ clip ]
> I don't want to give the...
By curt wuollet on 20 November, 2009 - 12:03 am -
Sounds like a switch to a better supported card would get you going and preserve the work you've...
Thank you very much for spending your time and efforts... your views are most interesting, and very...
By M Griffin on 19 November, 2009 - 2:23 pm -
For each axis you will have a servo motor and drive. The motor will have its own encoder which will...
Hi,
Thank you very much for all the answers.
It is true that telescopes are mainly controlled...
By M Griffin on 18 November, 2009 - 6:33 pm -
The first thing I would do would be to ask the other observatories how they are running this...
By curt wuollet on 18 November, 2009 - 3:37 pm -
> Bill Sturm, Once again, it's much easier to do PLC functions on a <
I don't know how...
By Ken E on 18 November, 2009 - 1:08 pm -
Depending on the time involved and the performance requirements with regards to positioning,...
Hello Wim:
Our controllers have been used for many years now on many of the large telescopes...
By curt wuollet on 18 November, 2009 - 10:26 am -
Moderator's Note: post corrected to remove name at beginning of post.
Once...
By William Sturm on 18 November, 2009 - 10:13 am -
This sounds like a good application for a Delta Tau PMAC controller. The processing speed and...
By Steinhoff on 18 November, 2009 - 8:30 am -
Hello,
We have customers which are using PLCs from Siemens together with QNX PCs for running...
By Ken E on 18 November, 2009 - 8:26 am -
Some of your details are a bit vague, but it sounds like you want to skip the PLC and go with a...
setting for 20/25 MVA, 11/33 KV power transformers for 35 MW power plant
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By DILIP on 21 November, 2009 - 12:00 pm -
The starting point for any relay setting is the Short Circuit Level (Fault Level) of the bus where...
i want to discuss GAS ENGINES BACK FIRE , DETONATIONS , IGNITION TIMING, CYLINDER TEMPERATURE PROBLEMS
receiving end voltage increase in 33Kv transmission line for same input
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By Phil Corso on 21 November, 2009 - 10:12 am -
Eusuf,
the voltage-drop between the sending-end and receiving-end of any transmission line is...
Searching some Modbus sniffer software. freeware if available.
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Hi,
see 232Analyzer 5.2 Free download.
Software RS232/RS485/RS422/TTL Serial Port Protocol...
By James on 21 November, 2009 - 4:04 am -
> I have a free WIN32 Console application that diode auctioneers two Async data <
Please...
By Harvard on 20 November, 2009 - 9:53 am -
I have a free WIN32 Console application that diode auctioneers two Async data streams into one...
How to do orifice sizing for flowmeters?
Please send a link for material in depth.
Please send a link for material in depth.
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By Rohit Chandak on 21 November, 2009 - 12:21 am -
Check this out....
http://www.lmnoeng.com/Flow/OrificeGas.htm
else the best way is to refer...
Digital Scale and PLC Allen-Bradley
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Thanks for your help Roy. I need to send the weight to the PLC. Do you have some part number?
...
Thanks a lot Bill for your help. I am going to get information........
By Jaon on 20 November, 2009 - 8:13 pm -
Hello,
I have used digi scales into a Prosoft/AB module works fine but these scales DI 170 I...
By Roy Matson on 20 November, 2009 - 3:02 pm -
I have used Mettler Toledo on several projects, Devicenet and Ethernet
Roy...
By William Sturm on 19 November, 2009 - 5:36 pm -
GSE (Weigh-Tronix): www.gse-inc.com/
and Mettler-Toledo: us.mt.com/us/en/home.html.
both...
need help making the logic to perform the calculations to exchange 4-20mA into a pulse output
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outacontrolman,
What make/model of meter are you using?
Depending upon the make/model, you...
By Roy Matson on 20 November, 2009 - 3:18 pm -
"I am using a flow meter to measure the GPM and that sends a pulse signal to a converter that...
upgrade of mark-4 control system to a newer version of control system.
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Officially, the "e" in Mark VIe stands for "enhanced." The differences between...
One of the advertisers here on control.com, GTC (Gas Turbine Controls Corporation) has Mark IV...
I suggest you contact GE. They would probably recommend upgrading to Mark VI. I am not sure they...
How can i retrieve data from Matrikon ODH
LCN slow down when connecting TPN server to Matrikon ODH with OPC optimizer on the App-Node
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>I am very interested to know about your OPC Architecture. OPC Optimizer should help you reduce...
I have a rticket with matrikon. after reading more about tpn and optimizer, i found that the number...
By Wassim Daoud on 20 November, 2009 - 12:39 pm -
I am very interested to know about your OPC Architecture. OPC Optimizer should help you reduce the...
We are fetching 15000 parameters per minute with our PHD system. We have 2 history modules, 3...
Vendor or Software house for ABB Advant-MB300 interface.
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By bob on 20 November, 2009 - 8:29 pm -
I have the novotek manual on pi if you want a copy. Go off forum and email to: sales [at]...
from the Instrumentation department...
I want to Know about ABB AC450 & AC160 Advant Control System ?
how to check & configure the detailed logic by using different commands/tools.
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By bob on 20 November, 2009 - 8:24 pm -
> I don't think you can upload the program from the controller <
From on line builder...
I am looking for information about ABB's EXCOM protocol. It looks like there are some threads on here that have asked about EXCOM in the past, but most of them are long-dead...
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By Bob on 20 November, 2009 - 8:18 pm -
I have the manual. Go off forum and email to:
sales [at] workstationsexpress.com...
By Scott Neff on 2 November, 2009 - 5:41 pm -
I tried this link
"http://solutionsbank.abb.com/SBankData/S/LOC/Advant/AD...
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