Shiner

I found some info in a post that was helpful in creating a screensaver by covering the whole screen with a button, but I am also at the customers request trying to make it so that when I am on each of my three screens it activates a part of my program. For example auto mode screen would write a bit to enable the auto subroutine manual would do the same ect. Would I use the same method as the screensaver and how would I set it up so that on opening it would be true and write to my database. Am I thinking about this all wrong? I can tag screens with eaton software but I cannot seem to find a way to do this with factorytalk. I have ME 5.10.

I know in RSView 3 and 4 the forerunners of Faactorytalk you could number screens and the screen status integer held the number of the screen you were on. A simple EQU command in the PLC would activate code when that screen was visible.

We push whatever the customer wants it would seem, with myself having the fun time of sorting out how the software is organized. Although this is a largely AB area more and more customers seem to be buying alternative products, and I have gotten involved with Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Automation Direct, and Eaton. The support from all of them seems to be about the same, on one hand they want to begin competing and pay lip service to that end, offering some free software versions or tech support, but on the other it is as if they know they can't compete in a region saturated with AB loyal customers so it is a half-hearted effort. I find the software packages on these when compared to AB sometimes cumbersome and lacking features, and tech support often reluctant to spend the time it takes to resolve an issue. They tend to point you in a direction and off with you.

Is there a demo or lite version and would it be family based like AB. My customer will not provide me with the model number of his processor yet so for now I am in the dark on that part. We are doing a replacement upgrade of the panel and they have a GE Fanuc, just want to get all the setpoints and timers out of it, do not want to invest in something if we do not have to.

After some fanangling we found out it is a series 90-30 processor....still working on what version of software we need.....

We are having trouble with the info on AB's site for cable selection for the AWAR series with the additional port. Does this have two 8 pin ports that support the P02 cable or is one a 9 pin and one an 8 pin

there is a way to loop them together without adding alot of relays, what model do you have in each machine

We use them all the time, as well as several other brands. They are very competitive and their tech support is very easily accessable and knowledgable. The drives themselves are pretty much plug and play.

had a similar problem after a customer had installed a vfd and new equipment onsite. Once I arrived I saw they had used all non metallic conduits and the existing motor wiring had no grounds!! the drive freqs had about 38 volts on the casing of the motor, which in turn energized all the attached remote equipment. All the sensors were going crazy! What fun getting rid of noise and loops. Something as simple as a corroded ground can offset your reference, especially when you are dealing with the resonant effects introduced by drives.

I am trying to get a company logo to appear on the HMI display. Using their software i can inport the jpeg but it is at actual size and I cannot seem to locate it anywhere but top left corner. I would like to manipulate the picture and have it be the moving logo of the screensaver mode. any suggestions?? thanks

going from one manufacturer to another can be quite confusing. I am an AB guy, in the middle of learning DirectSoft, while tring to program an Eaton processor. I feel your pain.

:you dont access it so to speak, you use a contact and instead of using an input address you use TT ex I:0.0/4 instead use T4:0/TT

The DN or done is exactly as it sounds, it becomes true when the time value you enter becomes true. The TT bit becomes true when the Timer is Timing and is off both when the rung is disabled and when the timer finishes timing. I have not used the EN bit as often but if my memory server correct, it is always on as long as the rung is true, meaning the timer may not be timing any more but you do not have to repeat truth statements for a timer and for something else, you can just use this bit.

I have fund documentations supporting the D/A and A/D data locations at eatons homepage.... http://www.eaton.com/EatonCom/SearchResult...amp;x=0&y=0. They also do not support DRUM functions I have been told so I am under the assumption I will have to do things the long way if I want a program that will run a machine that has a "hold" function in its process. Am I just thinking about this too hard or is picking up a ladder, timers and counters where they left off and continuing a process without missing a beat really a simple thing.

I was told that the micrologix 1000 analog I am using is capable of decimal math (122.48). I can not seem to confirm this with anything I have tried. Any suggestions?

Thank you both, I was pretty sure but being as new to this as I am I do not like to make assumptions. I followed your suggestion and did my math to the 100th power and then used the expressions in the panelview to read it as a decimal. The onyl thing lacking was being able to write the same way, the panelview 400 I have I could not find a numeric input button that would write an expression to a data file. Close enough, ships today.

I had similar isssues connectiong to a panelview 400....I was told that you cannot use auto-configure when you setup your df-1 driver. I tried it and manually put in the info I wrote down from the panelviews com network settings page and away I went.

I have been working on a simple program that interfaces the PP400 with a Micrologix 1000 Analog. I have been successful with most of this except for inputting numbers into the screen that are supposed to go into the register. They are moving through the tags fine, but I was hoping to do the math in the panelview and send the converted result to the 1000. I am converting motor rpms and vacuum pressure into values that control the analog 4-20mA signal. The second difficulty I am having with this is I would like the screen to diplay the last input number, respectively. Instead I get ???? on one and #### on the other. Any Ideas? - Lost as the Bills-

Sorry, Yes. I found that although my comms recognized the PLC was there I had a communications setup issue that didn't allow data transfer. Once I solved that I moved on to fixing my math issues by doing all the functions in the PLC instead of the panelview. that way the panelview reads (for the displayed last input) the number it writes to the integer function in the plc and displays it. The other issue I had was setting up my configuration in the program I downloaded into the panelview. In the communications folder of the project If you do not configure your local comms, and then copy them to your runtime targetyou will have problems as well. Most of this is probably elementary but as I am new to panelview programming I was learning as I went. Now if only I can get the 4-20mA signal between the Toshiba drive and the PLC to reflect each other........ If anyone happens to go after a job with a drive/plc speed control setup, use a tach or encoder......using the VI/II and FM as 4-20 command in and 4-20 speed reference out makes any math functions very difficult if you want to precisely control RPMs out.

I don't know how thorough the program is when you run the Validate function to check your math, but I know the displays are sized proverly (if not oversized). The only thing is the math statement may not be runnable if I do not have my tags properly input. Does this sound like a possibility?

I cannot find a way to archive this file as you mentioned. I have FTVS Machine Edition. I am trying to use a Numeric Input Enable button from the toolbar, with my PLC read/write location in the value, my math in the optional expression category, and I am also using upper and lower limits. I wish I could find a way for you to view this, I am good with plc's but this is a new one on me. thanks