Mark Buskell

I just finished up a job using Point I/O. All went well, we saved a ton of wiring by only having the Cat-5 cable. Modules are easy to configure. They did want a spare ethernet cable ran along side the existing cable. I am not sure of this was necessary but it's there now. I would suggest spare I/O modules as I have seen some of them go bad at other installations.

Also Allen-Bradley has a product advisory for a bunch of Control Logix modules. The advisory # is ACIG 2007-05-002. It affects module purchased between Oct 06 and March 07. They refer to the problem as functional issues. They are replacing the affected modules.

The service pack is a microsoft for VB. A VB dll or ocx can be moved but you would have to register it with RVSVR32. It is a huge service pack by the way and I think you need a full license for VB6 to install it. I have a full license for VB6 and not just the smaller one that comes in RSView. That may be the difference.

I was able to add a DataGrid no problem, It said DataGrid SP6 which stands for service pack 6. I tried this on RSView ME 4.0. What service pack do you have for VB.

What I did is use a 1 second timer, capture each second the difference between the new value and the old value. Value is the input from your HSC. Then divide that number by the PPR (Pulses per revolution) times 60. For example if in one revolution you get 300 pulses. Then if in 1 second you get a value of 600. Then the formula of 600 / 300 * 60 = 120 FPM.

Shorted branches are legal in the RS processors. I sometimes use them to quickly test an output and then remove them later to keep that annoying warning from showing up each time I compile.

One thing that tech support told me the first time I called was to first uninstall any virus checkers like Mcafee completely before uninstalling and reinstalling RSView. This did not work for me, but who knows. It may be worth it to do one of those one time pay calls with A-B. Also, yearly support may be expensive, but when you figure how much time you spend it may be a wash.

I had a problem like that. It turns out my problem was with my Dell laptop. There is a tech not on this. http://domino.automation.rockwell.c...ent# DataFiles There is also some answers on this link: http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.ph...2751#post162751 It may be time to give A-B a call and have them solve it for you. Thats what tech support is for.

I had a dynometer on a 503. The 503 was linked to a computer. The data was coming in to fast for the computer to capture it real time. This was ten years ago. What I did was capture the data in the SLC and then after the test, transfer the captured data to the desktop computer to display trending and such.

This are the setting from a string I did in a 1000. Tag Name: Chemical1 Data Type: Character Array Tag Address: ST35:0.1 Array Size: 8 The embedded variable is character type and a length of 8, /*A:8 Chemical1*/

There is this writeup in the AB Knowledgebase that may help. http://domino.automation.rockwell.com/appl...2C?OpenDocument You can also search for A5273 in the knowledgebase.