Crossbow

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  1. HMI & Melservo MR-J2S

    My bad... the GOT1000 does in fact support the J2S-A. I must have read an older manual, or I was looking at the servo monitor screens.
  2. That would be my first guess. Something is using the serial port and not letting XBT-L1000 use it. You might want to verify the port settings in the software too, check the Unitelway driver setup in the Control Panel. What version of XBT-L1000?
  3. Is your laptop using a USB to serial adapter? If so, you're in trouble. The Unitelway drivers don't work with USB to serial converters. And the Unitelway drivers are used for Magelis communications. Best bet if this is the case is to look into PCMCIA cards with serial ports. They work more reliably than the USB serial adapters.
  4. Time stamping

    Each byte of SD210 thru SD213 contains a bit of the clock information. SD210 lower byte is month, higher byte is year SD211 lower byte is hour, upper byte is day SD212 lower byte is seconds, upper byte is minutes SD213 lower byte is day of week. upper byte is 34d and 4th digits of year (IE 20 for 2006) Your best bet is to use the DATERD command every scan in your program to drop that information into sequential words, and then set up your OPC to log those words with your existing data.
  5. Spare Electronic parts

    Your local Mitsubishi sales office or distributor should be able to get you in touch with their repair department. They should be able to fix it for a price if you send it in. I know that at least in the US, they don't sell the components to repair the boards. Also beware as that module is for the large A Series PLC, which is officially discontinued as of 8/1/2006. Only certain parts and existing stock will be available after that date.
  6. HMI & Melservo MR-J2S

    The Mitsubishi E-terminals have drivers for communicating with the Mitsubishi servos J2S-CP and J2S-CL. I know the GOT1000 units from Mitsu also have drivers for Mitsubishi servos, but that's for the J2S-CL and J2M series, not J2S-A. I don't think either of them is designed to talk to the J2S-A. But there is a configuration software package and programming cable for them. Software is called MR-Configurator, and cable is MR-CPCATCBL3m.
  7. Help Me PLC Software Mitsubishi

    There is a demo version of GX-Developer-FX in the downloads section here. It's limited to writing a 1000 step program, but other than that it's full software.
  8. Which Mitsubishi PLC should I use?

    Not FX1S! You cannot use the right side bus on the FX1S. You'd need to go to at least the FX1N-14MR-ES/UL. And if he uses a Mitsubishi HMI product, they offer a mode where you can program the PLC via the HMI connection. They call it transparent mode, and all you need to do is plug the HMI into the PLC and then use the HMI programming cable to the HMI and you can go right through and program the PLC. No need for a second port. And if you use the GOT1000 units, they have a USB port on the front, and you can use the USB connection to program the PLC without opening the cabinet door.
  9. S7 200

    The Siemens OPC server and stuff which used to go by MicroComputing is now S7-200 PC Access, which is actively available for sale.
  10. Which Mitsubishi PLC should I use?

    You cannot use the FX0N-3A with an FX1S. FX1S does not have the right side expansion bus. FX1N does. You need to use at least an FX1N for the right side bus special function modules. If all you need is one analog output, you can add an FX1N-2AD-BD board to the processor. Only one board, and it only has two inputs. Depending on your needs, you might be able to get away with the Alpha2. AL2-14MR-D has 8 DC inputs, 6 relay outputs, and you can use some of the inputs as 0-10VDC signals. Now Alpha2 isn't as much as PLC as it is a smart relay, so you may not want to go that route.
  11. CC Link

    With the GT15 units, if you're close enough, you can use the backplane bus for communication. You can put a GT15-QBUS or GT15-QBUS2 on the back of the screen and use a bus expansion cable to come off the backplane expansion port. Expansion bus is extremely fast.
  12. E300 Firmware

    Actually they would probably direct them to MEAU. The E-terminals are MEAU product rebranded from Beijers, and they typically want MEAU to handle the technical support on them. I have 6.04, none older. Perhaps someone else has an older version?
  13. Write EEPROM FROM GX DEFELOPER PLC FX2c

    Never heard of the part number you mention for an FX EEPROM. Valid part numbers are FX-EEPROM-4 and FX-EEPROM-8. But the way the FX works, you do not need to use the load to IC options. They are for the larger PLCs with ROM cards. All you need to do is power off the PLC, plug in the memory card, and turn on the PLC. The PLC is now running the program in the memory module. If you do a download now, it will go into the memory card, not the PLC's internal memory. You can verify this by looking at the monitor window when online with the PLC. It will show RUN/STOP, the max scan time since connection, and the type of memory used. FX2C is RAM, so if it says EEPROM you are working from the memory card.
  14. Time stamping

    The PLC has a realtime clock. Simply add those registers to the data you are receiving. If you say which CPU I can tell you which addresses are the clock.
  15. Serial to Parallel converter

    Panic, I think he was referring to connecting the printer to the PLC.
  16. Trouble opening a project

    We do not use GX IEC Developer in the US much. Most of the programs in the downloads section here are written in GX Developer, not GX IEC Developer. I do not believe that GX IEC can read regular GX projects. You're going to need to have GX Developer to read them.
  17. SIL Ratings

    The safety PLC is based on the Q. I've heard mention but not seen anything technical.
  18. Using a laptop as an HMI for Fx series plc

    Another solution would be that Mitsubishi sells their GOT product as a PC package. You can buy SOFTGOT1000 and run all the same type of screens on a PC that you'd run in a GOT.
  19. 140 NOE 771_01

    No the unit will not configure it's own address. You must define the address in the PLC program. As for the kernel, did you check www.us.telemecanique.com or www.telemecanique.com in their Support section for the Quantum PLCs? All of the executive software for the NOE modules is a free download. It's been a couple years since I've upgraded a kernel on an NOE, but I know the executable did come with instructions.
  20. None of the Telemecanique sites show a free download of PL7-07. Used to be you had to buy this software.
  21. AEG plc

    What you have is a Modicon 984 PLC. You need software from Modicon. Either their old DOS software called MODSOFT or their Windows based software ProWORX/32. You can also get a good programming package for a fair price from Fastrak Softworks, theirs is called PLC Workshop for Modicon. Theirs is far cheaper than Modicon's software packages.
  22. Trouble opening a project

    All the files need to be exactly in the right directories and the files must all be read/write. Make sure the entire directory structure is intact. Also ensure that the files and folders are not marked read only. They would be set read only if they had been copied to a CD. Otherwise, GX-Developer can directly open GPP-WIN projects without issue.
  23. configuration for DP Link and DP/PA coupler

    Might get more responses if you put this in the Siemens forum. This is for Automation Direct. And I know the CP5611 is a Siemens product.
  24. Most vendors, Mitsubishi included, offer a 'lite' version of their programming software for OEMs and SIs that will not need the entire toolset. The Mitsubishi GX-Developer-FX is designed for people who will only use the brick style PLCs. And the GX-Configurator packages for special function modules and GX-Simulator are sold seperately so the people who are not going to need that functionality do not have to pay for it. As a systems integrator, I think you would agree (I don't know conditions in your country, but at least in ours) that the original titles and software maintenance plans from Mitsubishi are cost effective compared to some others. I've seen PLC software sold for over TRIPLE what GX-Developer costs.
  25. Password in S7-200

    The passwords for their subroutines allow them to protect their code. You need to contact the machine builder for access to that code.