Tigamaroo1999

It's Ironic. If you look at the Programmable Logic Catalog, page B-8 says that a CPU23 program memory size limit is 10k, but if you turn to B-12, it says it's 20k. I am glad you pointed that out to me! Thank you all, once again, for your patience and help! Tig

Ok, got out the books. The specs on the CPU23 are almost identical to the CPU22 with the exception of the availability of 640 I/O (versus 320 I/O for the CPU22). My program itself is too large. Both PLC's limit me to 10k words for program memory and 32k words for Data memory. The error I am getting says the following: ERROR: Total output image exceeds UM size by 1356 words. The advice I received doesn't address this error, right? At this point, can I put part of my program on a memory card (like the section that sets all my variables for a particular job)? Thank you!

That's kind of what I thought, but I thought I'd query the experts! Thanks for your help! Tig

I have a slot for a CF Card. Does that buy me any extra real estate? This program is huge. I'm only 80% done, and already 1220 lines over the limit... I could consolidate some, but I'm not sure that I'll be able to shrink it down that much...

PLC - CJ1M-CPU22 Touchscreen - NS5 My program is too big. What can I do? Thanks! Tig

I apologize for the delay...work's work. Yes, I go from PC - IP - NS5 - RS232C - PLC. That has worked fine for me now for two years. I am on the same subnet, so I'll give it a try. Thanks! Tig

On this same topic, my CJ1M-CPU22 is connected serially into an NS5 touchpanel, which is then connected to the network via ethernet. Am I able to do the same thing, and if so, would I configure my CX Server to the same settings as my CJ or my NS (or something totally different)? Thank you, in advance! Tig On this same topic, my CJ1M-CPU22 is connected serially into an NS5 touchpanel, which is then connected to the network via ethernet. Am I able to do the same thing, and if so, would I configure my CX Server to the same;settings as my CJ or my NS (or something totally different)? Thank you, in advance! Tig

Chainsaw's got it for the touchpanel. I use a CJ1M-CPU22-ETN, and what I do for the ladder is: I use the = command in the ladder as a latch Ex: List item location to be put in D350 PLC Ladder: | = |------------------------O--- | #1 | |D350| I hope that helps with the PLC side. Tig

All you would need to do is take the data memory location where the incrementing number would be and do a ++ operation. For example if you have 77 in your second to last DM, you could just add 1 and output the simple ASCII. I could be wrong, but the ladder isn't really "smart" enough to know what type of number is in a DM, so this should work.. The problem will be when you get to 100 or 1000 in that DM location... Good luck! Tig

I know you said you got it, but I thought I'd throw this out. Maybe you could have used Protocol Macros. That way, you could have input each ASCII text in, and just got out one DM (or possibly two DM's if the string is really long) for each one. Tig

When working with really large programs, sometimes you'll have a ton of sections. It would be really nice to be able to group sections into main sections with subsections. For example, I have 4 sections that deal with the shutdown sequence. I would prefer to have one main section titled 'Shutdown' with all my subsets inside it. That way, I could collapse the tree when I'm not working on that particular group. Tig

The E6C2 can handle up to 5000 RPM. For the limitations of the PRV command (High Speed Counter Input), check manual W395-E1-1. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Good luck! Tig

Ok, finally got around to installing CX One on my older computer. This computer used to connect to my NS touchpanel with FinsGateway (Win XP in System Administrator mode). Now, I can no longer connect. My connection would be as follows: Computer via Ethernet to NS Touchpanel. The CJ1M-CPU22 connects via the serial port (Port A) on the NS, and is connected via pass-through on same IP address to my computer. Are you saying that I need to re-install FinsGateway to make this work, or has CXOne taken care of this? Tig

Most math functions are done in HEX, so you shouldn't need to convert it to do any math functions. The last project I was working on started out this way, and we ended up going to the PMCR command. Instead of having to do all this, you can use CX Protocol to manipulate the numbers into anything you want, then dump them into CX Programmer. Attached is a super basic program that I wrote. Check it out.... PMCR_Command_Basic.zip

If you're using the HEX command for an ASCII to HEX conversion, you're choosing the location for the bytes within the command. All you would need to do is order them to your needs. Tig