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Hi, Has anyone had any luck using the PIC driver (abpicw2k.sys) with a pcmcia serial card. Usually, loading the PIC driver, replaces the stanard sernum.sys microsoft driver. Reason i ask, it seems laptops rarely feature serial ports and i got myself a pcmcia serial card which has a standard 550 chip in it. When you try and load the PIC driver, it complains, it fails to swap in. Does anyone have the knowledge to either hack the ini or driver as required, so it can work? thanks neil

Hi, the one I use quite happily does all baud rates. I'll have a look at work tomorrow to confirm my setup. I've got a dialup system to a remote dite with a remote router in place with 6 HMI's connected with a variety of PLC's, Q00J, A1SJH and A3N. Regards Neil

Hi, Yeah i've used mc etc and extensively with nested loops, but i wouldnt use em here unless there was several runs in each stl equivalent. I ended up coding my own stl equivalent, with sets and resets etc. Works fine :o) Thanks for your input anyways. Neil

Oh i was starting to suspect this. I've done plenty on A/Q ranges just never had to use STL, although i've used it loads in the FX series. Thanks for your help in confirming this :o) Neil

Hi, I've used STL programming extensively over the years within my normal ladder logic programs (you might call that embedded). I'm just doing a Q02 project at the moment and I thought the STL would come in handy but i dont think it does it. Am i right? If it cant thats a right bummer! I know SFC is nearly the same thing but i've never written SFC style. If it requires SFC, can a SFC program co-exist with the normal ladder logic? Thanks Neil

Hello again.. The freeware serial driver program worked a treat.. Thanks for all your help. Neil

Hello mjrx, Yeah i'm hopin for success! Can you confirm what port did u specifiy if any? I see the default port is 6004. The reason i've opted for the setup shown previous is because there will be 5 other HMI's with PLC connected in the same fashion, each plugged into the switch. I need to edit/program each HMI and/or PLC from the one PC. Did you manage to edit the PLC via transparent mode ok (ticking the box in PLC i/f side)? I see the program you've used... i found this one.. : - http://www.hwgroup.cz/products/hw_vsp/index_en.html does it look similiar in functionality? Please do tell :o) Thanks Neil

Hi waynes, Thanks for the screen grab.. i'm not sure that way will work. This is the setup: - PC(NIC) === SWITCH === (ETTP) E300 (RS422) ----- (SERIAL)Q00J Key: === cat5e utp ----- cabx serial comms cable (rs422 to rs232). I know I can connect to the 232 port of the HMI and program transparently. I've been pointed to the use of a virtual com port device driver which will be mapped to the IP of the HOST HMI with the appropriate port. I'm gonna try it tomorrow and see how it fares. Thanks for all your help.

Hi, Can anyone confirm the settings in E Designer and GX Developer v8 so that I can access the Q PLC via the IFC ETTP i've fitted in an E300? Thus far, in E Designer, i've configured slot 1 to use the ETTP and associated TCP/IP with it and IP address 192.168.0.210. I've also connected transparency to this card. I can program the HMI ok but I cant get GX Developer to talk to the programming PC. From what i've read it is possible but i couldnt figure the transfer settings out in GX Developer. Thanks Neil D.