a_j_saunders

Hi All Sorry about the delay in replying to you, but have been on holiday and came back to the usual pile !! As for the problem in my question I have purchased a Pic unit and eventually have managed to conect to the machine while it is running , so I have now back up copies of the programs for all our machines Thanks to all for the help I am now a bit more conversant ! Regards Andrew

Ok The cable I am using is cat 1747-cp3 conecting through the bottom port and into the serial port on my lap top. I have RSlinx lite running and The drivers configured are "RS-232 DF1 DEVICE" SET TO COM 1 SLC-CH0/MICRO/PANEL VIEW BAUD RATE 38400 STATION NO 00 PARITY NONE ERORCHECKING CRC STOP BITS 1 PROTICOL FULL DUPLEX But I use the auto config to set the above this works fine on my "bench test rig " and Ipick up the lap top and walk to one of the machines, plug in and run auto config again Thanks for the advise on the swapping over of the plc units, we are aware of this but as you said it happens ! Thanks Andrew

Hi Both As sugested by Ron I have opened up the Bench Slc which is a new unit supplied with the program for th eother Seperate machines in the factory ( all are the same) In the Channel Configuration file I have the following Information Channel 1 Driver DH485 write protect unticked passthru link 0 edit resource 60 Channel 0 Systen driver DF1 Full Duplex User Driver ASCII Mode system Mode change unticked write protect unticked Mode attention Character \1b passthu Id 0 system mode characture S edit resourse 60 user mode charactur U I have been told by the machinery manufacture that in theroy we should be able to pull a faulty processor unit and plug this one in ? Hope this gives you a bit more information Andrew

Hi all I have a number of identical machines each driven by a slc 5/03 cpu with various input and out pput cards inc a "scanner" which comunicates with a ICM servo drive and A Panel View screen I can set up the correct driver with a "test" Rack with a Slc 5/3 cpu installed and can carry out uploads downlaods etc in the workshop using a lap top As soon as I try to comunicate with the live units in the factory the icon for the cpu is red crossed out and when I try use the driver auto configeration it cannot find the cpu. This is hapening with all 3 machines Can any one give me some guidance Thanks Andrew

All We have 2 identical machines ( vertical form fill baggers ) one of which had some components that have suffered from over voltage etc. we replaced everthing with new items, with the exception of the ab 1747-sn scanner which we borrowed from a running machine. while we were finishing of the inital repair the replacement scanner arrived , this we put in the doaner machine ( after setting the dip switches the same ) powered up machine and we are now getting a coms error on the hmi panel but no fault light on the scanner ( the fault light brefly comes on on power up as dos the green coms light both are off now ) Has any one any Idaes as we now have 2 sick machines !! Thanks Andrew

Hi Both Thanks for replying:- Just to comfirm I am using a straight 2-2 , 3-3, 5,-5 searial 9 pin lead and I have stop the rslite running to configure the settings to com2 etc But I am still not conecting ie cannot see the panel view in the tree of rslinx what am I doing wrong ? Andrew

I am trying to conect to a brand new panel view 1000 with 2 rs232 ports ( one labeled comm / download the other printer ) from a pc to download a program I am using rslinx lite and have chosen AB_DF1-1 as the driver ( is this correct ) and trying to conect using either com 1 or 2 on pc, using auto configure it seems to time out while doing error checking bcc / crc then gives error to check cabels and configuration I have noted that the panel view at the top of the comms screen says "DH-485 " Can any one put me right on this ? Thanks Andrew

I have a number of different models of the Alan Bradley Panel View HMI and have the need to keep copies of the operating programs so that engineers can quickly replace a unit when required. We do not need to do any programming only upload and down load from panels as they are supplied in various types of machines. Has any one any sugestions? I also would like to be able to do the same for Alan Bradly Plc units mostly the SLC500 type Thanks Sam Saunders

Thanks for responding Klaus, I do not have the original program so I do need the early Prosave version so if any one out there can let me have a copy it would be apreciated Regards Sam

I am in the process of backing up and creating a folder containing all of the operation codes etc for our HMI screen, plc units so that it is relatively simple for an engineer to replace a faulty unit etc. I am using ProSave v 6.0 sp2 to make the backups but while I am downloading from a TP 170A I get the following error message " The desired action cannot be executed the ProSave version and the operating version of the unit are not compatible (perform a bootstrapping if necessary)” When the HMI screen is powered up a version number B.52.2.2.23 appears before changing to the normal operator screen I have also Pro Tools ver 6.0 sp2 and get the same results How do I over come this message? All our equipment is supplied ready programmed so we do not have the original programs etc. Regards Sam