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I'm wondering if anyone on this forum has ever setup a VPN on a Red Lion flexedge device. If so 'HELP'. thanks..

The UDFB is just Structured Text and you can edit it. Just double click on the UDFB and have fun!  

First of all, I'm running version 20.01.00 CCW. I have a project that uses a mciro870 and panelview 800. It also has 11 powerflex 525 VFD's attached, all ethernet. Everything has been going well but today I hit a wall when importing tags into the Panelview device group.  I currently have a little over 800 tags and will have about 1400 I think when finished. The Plc section shows tons of memory available and when I check through 'config' on the Pv800 itself, it also has tons of memory left. When I do the import, it brings in 744 tags and then skips the remaining one. It even includes that in the msg block after the import. It has to see that tags or it wouldn't know that they are being skipped. I've been trying to work with Rockwell support ( of course I got the new guy who's never seen the software before) and my local distributor.  I've looked through the rockwell knowledge base, the manuals and online and I haven't seen this problem posted. Does anyone know if there is a limitation on the number of tags? I can't image an odd number like 744. thanks, mark    

I'm trying to send an email out of the HMI and can't figure out how to build the body to contain all the info that I need. I can get the email to send fine and I can include one tag which works correctly. I though that I should be able to build the text that I need using an expression but I can't seem to figure that out. Here's what I want: Flow totalizer = 'tag' Last 24 Hour flow = 'tag' Last 24 Hour High flow = 'tag'   So just three lines ( I know there is an 82 char limiit) containing a little bit of text and some tags. I thought that I should be able to do something like: "Flow Totalizer" + 'tag' but that doesn't work. It validates but I get no output.   Any help would be very much appreciated. I normaly use a different brand HMI so I'm not really all that up to speed on PV. thank you.    

I'm trying to develop an email application that will run an a PV+7. I've gotten it far enough that the email activex control quit posting error strings, but my mail server is not receiving anything. I realized that the HMI doesn't know how to get outside via a gateway address. I know I can set it in the HMI itself but it isn't available to me right now so I'm trying to test using the 'test application' feature.  I guess I just don't know where to setup a gateway address in factorytalkview me.    

I got it working. thank you!  

Thanks I wondered if it wouldn't do that but I can't find where to set that up. All I find are linx connections. I know I'm just missing something basic.  

I do this using Crimson 3.1. You just create a data log in crimson that contain the data that you want. Then just enable the Sql Sync service and set the DB parameters. The data table will be created automatically also.

I found the docs on Rockwell's website. Version 'C' was introduced in 2017 but it doesn't show up in the processor options inside Rslogix. If you have Rslogix version 8.3 or later it will just work on any of the options shown. My problem turned out to be that the file I was using was created initially on an older version of Rslogix Micro starter version 9.00. As a test, I created an empty file using RsLogix micro version 11 and it worked. I then created an empty file using Rslogix micro starter and it faulted. Then it was just a matter of of creating a new file and copying the program files over and importing the ascii files with all the symbols, names, etc.   

I just went to a customer site this afternoon to load software onto a new machine. When I put the processor in 'run' it immediately faulted and the error said the download didn't match the unit. So I looked at the model to make sure it was a series 'b' and it was a series 'C'.  My rslogix 500 micro doesn't show a 'c' series in the list and I have not been able to figure out how to update it. The link under the 'help' pulldown fails and I've tried to find it on the rockwell site with no luck.  Has anyone run across this and if so how did you resolve it. I'm still looking and I'll post the answer if I find it.  

I found it on the Rockwell site. It says that micro does support it with all versions 8.3 and newer. I'm on the latest, 11.  

Well I did find something one the Rockwell site that said that my version 11 should work with Series C. Not sure where to go at this point. 

I'm new to using RSLogix 5000 and I'm not sure how to handle memory protection.  I build recipes from an HMI and store the data in tag arrays on the PLC. I'm used to doing this with the micrologix plc line and in Rslogic 500 I could simply mark the data file to not overwrite when downloading. Is it possible to do something similar with Rslogix 5000? if not, is there a better way to handle recipes? I just don't want to overwrite recipe data by downloading a program update.  

Have  you contacted Red Lion support about this?

I have a customer that insists on me using a panelview for his project and I have basically no experience with them. I have been using another brand exclusively for many years so I'm well versed in how to use an HMI, just not Allen Bradley. I'm hoping to get some advice about which unit to use. The system is a simple waste water facility and the controller will likely be a micrologix 1400. The customer wants something in the 15" range. Looking on the AB website I see Plus 6 & Plus 7 both seem to give me that size. Are major differences that I should know about? thanks     

Sorry it took me a couple days to get back to this. Yes I'm going to use one of the ml1400s just to handle a bunch of analog io. I'm just going to msg that data every few seconds to the other unit. thanks

One other question please. This system will have 2 micrologix controllers. One will just be used as an IO device. The other will do all the processing and needs to be able to read from the first controller. Does the Panelview support passing tags from one controller to the other? thanks

Gareth can you post what your are trying to do. I may have some code that I can provide.  

Thanks to both of you. I think the PV+7 is going to be the winner.  I'm the loser :)...  

So are you uploading or downloading? When using rslogix500 if you want to send the program to the plc you need to use 'download'.

Did you connect the dc common to the comm2 terminal? Also do you any load on your output or are you just looking at it not connected?  

I would try to isolate the problem a little more. If it's a noisy input, then remove your signal and give it a known source. You can put a resistor from a power supply in series with the input and then watch the value in rslogix. If it's a noisy output, then poke a value into the output address and measure the output with nothing else connected( you'll need a resistor of course if it's a current output). My guess is that if you're talking about an input, it's the device sending the signal to the plc and not the module.  I've used a lot of these older products and I still have customers that have systems from  the early 90's that are still going strong. Run some tests and let us know what's happening.  

You can use the NPN output of a sensor but if the sensor doesn't have a built-in pull-up resistor, you'll have to add one externally. Can you tell us what sensor and input module you're using?  

Just an FYI.  I re-installed the update this morning and it's still broken. All my other updates were 'up to date' so any patches to this problem should have been installed.... I should be programming instead of dealing with this mess.....  

I am using AdvancedHMI to log data to a sql database. If you know sql, it's easy to generate reports. It's very simple to use and if you are familiar with .Net VB or C#, you can have it up and running in no time. Also it's free and an excellent product with great user support. Just my 2 cents...