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Modbus and acyclic time
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By M Griffin on 16 November, 2009 - 9:16 pm -
Modbus is strictly a communications protocol. The DCS, PLC, or other controller determines how and...
Hoist motor vibrates while drive and motor is taking high current and it vibrates though brake was open but motor is not running
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By Roy Matson on 16 November, 2009 - 6:35 pm -
It sounds like single phasing, check each phase with a clip on ammeter.
If it's not that could be...
need help with Gen32 to be used with Unitronics UniOPC Server
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Hi Paul,
I have used Genesis32 with Unitronics PLC's before. The Unitronics OPC server does not...
How to determine update rate of GES driver to talk to RX3i.
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By Wassim Daoud on 16 November, 2009 - 1:06 pm -
have you tried contacting OPC Support? Please feel free to contact us at: 1-877-OPC-4ALL
you can...
Can only read 6 registers from Controlotron 1010 flow meter via Modbus
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By Paco on 16 November, 2009 - 11:30 am -
I set up a Test jig with a piece of plastic pipe so I could get some flow rate albeit very low with...
By Angel on 10 November, 2009 - 4:38 am -
First of all, thank you for your answers.
Yes, the EPROM version is 5.1.
The problem here,...
Need to connect Micrologix 1100 PLC to Agilent 34980A.
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By Harvard on 16 November, 2009 - 11:12 am -
You can configure the MM Transmitters with almost any generic Modbus Host. For example, the...
We have the base models of the MM. off the top of my head I think it's the 1700 so it only has one...
By mongerf on 13 November, 2009 - 9:57 pm -
Your existing Micrologix 1100 can easily read modbus registers into its own internal data...
By Harvard on 13 November, 2009 - 9:01 pm -
Are you sure you even need Modbus? Most all MM Transmitters support 2 x 4-20 mA Analog Outputs that...
By Harvard on 13 November, 2009 - 8:50 pm -
The PLC would serve as a Modbus Host over RS485 to all MM Transmitters. The PLC program would then...
By Jerry Miille on 13 November, 2009 - 7:59 pm -
I am not sure I follow your original post but if it requires using a MicroLogix 1100 PLC to...
I have been instructed not to go with the option of using the VB modification. We already have the...
By Mark on 12 November, 2009 - 12:25 pm -
Check out Automated Solutions' website for a Modbus (master or slave) ActiveX Control that can...
By Harvard on 12 November, 2009 - 9:59 am -
I am currently retired from an Emerson Rep and I have over 25 years experience with Micromotion and...
By M Griffin on 11 November, 2009 - 4:25 pm -
You will need a Modbus driver that will work with MS Visual Basic, and you will need someone who...
I think I see what you are saying. We are using Visual Basic to compile the data from the Agilent...
I need to program s7-200 using USB PPI cable and wonderware incontrol
Machine which we are going to do with Rotart shear cutter for cutting metal sheets from 800 mm to 5000 mm
How to check scan time of DCS & PLC
operation system problem
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thanks all of you for your explanations. i got that i cant use this sw on my pc. i'm using windows...
With both Vista and Windows 7, the editions of the OS are important. Home Premium is not supported,...
By M Griffin on 12 November, 2009 - 12:01 am -
Some of the newest versions of Step 7 will work with some versions of MS Windows Vista. Which of...
By smallsnowball on 11 November, 2009 - 10:56 pm -
Hi ail,
Please look at this website to search for your step7 compatibility with your OS
...
some analogue inputs no data in monitoring system ,. and QVZ alarm blinking.
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This is timeout error, I/O module not accessible......(may be wrong input access). If the cards are...
In the TMR MKV panel with HMI in windows2000 operating system the diagnostic counters when opened is showing only two cores i.e. <C> and <R> but not the other two processors <S> and <T>.
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By Thomas on 14 November, 2009 - 11:53 pm -
CSA,
Thanks for the reply, before to try correcting the errors in the above files I would like...
Thomas,
You are the victim of poor configuration from the GE factory, and a poor start-up.
...
Does anyone know how to stop the posts (AB talk for the start-up self-test loo)???
SLC5/03
I want to be able to transfer system configuration data from the Beckhoff TwinCAT System Manager .tsm file to a drawing package (terminal type, channel names, connections, comments).
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By Simon Hedges on 12 November, 2009 - 9:45 am -
You'll find some answers to this question in the discussions at the TwinCAT Developers group on...
Auto tuning in ABB 800XA system
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By Mik on 12 November, 2009 - 5:39 am -
So, if I understood good, main difference between step and relay tests is that really works in a...
By Rob on 10 November, 2009 - 6:42 pm -
I'm sorry but I'm going to be a little blunt here
Do NOT use the Autotune facility until you...
Siemens Teleperm AS230 information
cannot establish communication between a PC connected and PLC linked through a RS232 port after downloading the program.
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By jakes108 on 11 November, 2009 - 10:39 am -
Hey,
We had this similar problem , when using a usb to serial converter. Firstly when the usb...
data mapping between SCADA and OSI-PI System
HAWKWIN & HAWK-I help
Technical Data needed for a T.I. Model 500 backplane.
Does anyone have instructions for the TI500-5052 RTD module?
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TI500 and TI505 are not birds of the same feather; the latter has a 96 Molex or CFI connector while...
PLC100U comes in stop mode while connecting Interface module IM 316
I'd like to pull data from the Telemecanique Zelio Logic Relay.
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I really would like to thanks all of you for dedicating time to answer my post. I only want to...
Hi Every one I wanna knw hw to configure the W@de RTU W315 for GPRS modem.
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I emailed you the latest manual. Hope that it helps....
Unrecoverable major fault : code 60 in control logix L61 Processor
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By Vijay Bharadva on 9 November, 2009 - 8:16 am -
Dear All,
Thank you very much for your response. Up to now I found following things in the...
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