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Hi All, I need access to a the Safety function blocks within a safety CPU using sysmac studio on a machine we are upgrading.. Is there a generic password available to gain access? Best Regards, Paul  

I have 0x4c requests from my ipc to the controller, with request path: Class - 0xB2, Instance - 0x004C. And 0x4c responses from the same path, and then "Command Specific Data": example 1 (of the command specific data): 0100a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00a6409d00 example 2: 0100a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00a7409d00 example 3: 0100a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00a8409d00 Looks like it always starts with 0100, then repeating some value. In the first one the repeating value is 00a6409d, and then in the end 00. Or maybe it's 01 and then just repeating values surrounded with 00 or something similar. Is it values surrounded with 00, written using little-endian? Does the variable in request have a name?  

So, I have thought about creating my own Business for the last few years. With this business I would go shop to shop/factory to factory teaching anywhere from Basic PLC programming to HMI design and integrations. I love to share any bit of my Knowledge/experience with anyone and I have learned this more when at my first engineering job they had me train several guys on how to start up Servo Motor jobs with PLC and HMI's. I really enjoyed helping others learn and get over the hump of intimidation and lack of experience with electronics and such. I have had a lot of different experience from being an Electrician for 5 years to Engineering 10+ years now- (Design, Software, Startups, Service work, Installs, and Management) I then started a career of being a PLC Instructor (part-time for 1 year now) for adults and this too help me with my idea of starting my business. At my instructing school we would get a variety of people anywhere from fresh out of High School to experienced Maintenance guys that want to specialize in PLC and HMI's.  With all of this being said, does anyone think there would be a great amount of need for someone to come your work place and teach Allen Bradley, Omron, and Mitsubishi PLC and HMI and maybe one day down the road Servo Motors and logic for them too? I think that more one on one with a couple trainer lab stations, I could really help not only workers advance themselves but also companies benefit both? I have gone to training for my previous employers, sometimes traveling far away for a week at a time and costing my employer a lot of money where my rate would be much less and on-site of the customer/trainee's. Starting out I have bought several used pieces of PLC's, Input Cards, Output Cards, (Only Allen Bradley for now). I have also bought cases to make my training units more safe and portable. Looking at creating a business name and logo as well as possibly creating a (LLC). It has been a slow but steady process though. Feel free to add anything or comment anything to this with ideas.   Thanks!

Hi We have some plc programs written by concept 2.1 b2.1 XL ,concept 2.1XL. I need setups of these versions

Hi all, This is my first post here, I read through the FAQ, searched the Allen-Bradley forum and this one for my question but couldn't quite find what i was looking for. My main questions is: Is it possible to programmatically change the service code of a MSG instruction?  It is possible to change the class,  instance and attributes but the application I'm currently writing would be a lot simpler if all I had to create is one instance of the MSG block (and its data) . The only thing stopping me is the service code.   Edit: I'm using a CompactLogix 5380-L306ER   Any input is greatly appreciated!

I am trying to setup communications between RSlinx and Softlogix on Windows 7 PC. I open SoftLogix and configure a CPU and Ethernet module. I then cannot open RSLinx GUI since RSLinx is already running as a service. I stop the service, which automatically removes my CPU from SoftLogix but does allow me to open RSLinx GUI. However I cannot connect to the Softlogix now since it has no PLC. When I try and add a CPU I get a message that RSLogix must be run as a service. However in that situation I cannot open the GUI.

I have a program that was developed in modicon Concept, dont know what version it is. I tried to  open  with the version 2.6 XL but when i tried to open  the .prj file, it says the version does not match..is there a way or how to convert this program to version 2.6 Concept? 

I've got an old Modicon PLC E984-265 that was programmed with Concept V2.2 SP2 program.  If I have Concept V2.5 or 2.6 can I upload the program to my computer using a new software program? Thanks.

Hello,    I have a Cognex insight 5100 camera connected to Allen Bradley L62 processor. The is working fine since the last year but sometimes the I/O module faults out with error code 16#0022. I looked online it look it needed a Ethernet cable change ( I did that but no results).  Then I looked at the firmware in the I/O module and firmware in the camera and I found a difference. The firmware in the camera is 4.06 and the firmware of I/O module in the PLC is 4.005. Can anyone help me resolve the communication issue ? I want to know how to downgrade the camera firmware or change the revision in the PLC ( which I cannot )    Thanks in Advance 

Hello,    I have a Cognex insight 5100 camera connected to Allen Bradley L62 processor. The is working fine since the last year but sometimes the I/O module faults out with error code 16#0022. I looked online it look it needed a Ethernet cable change ( I did that but no results).  Then I looked at the firmware in the I/O module and firmware in the camera and I found a difference. The firmware in the camera is 4.06 and the firmware of I/O module in the PLC is 4.005. Can anyone help me resolve the communication issue ? I want to know how to downgrade the camera firmware or change the revision in the PLC ( which I cannot )    Thanks in Advance 

Hi, I need the Service Release 1 (SR1) for Concept 2.6 XL English. Just I need the SR1 So any one have it and upload it. I have SR 7 but I need SR1. Thanks.

Hello everyone, I have Concept version 2.6. However I have a few PLC programs that were developed with Version 2.2. According to Modicon, the Concept programs developed with version 2.2 can not be opened with 2.6 (higher version). Wow!!! However, if you opened them with 2.2 and exported them out to an ASCII file, then you can open them with version 2.6. My question is: does anyone have a 2.2 version? Can I please help me just to export them out? Thanks, Arde

I am struggling with the following problem: We have a Momentum PLC running with a project downloaded from Concept 2.6. When I make a small change into the project and I download the change to PLC there seems to be no problem. But when I try to run a visualisation project in Vijeo Look then after any click in visualisation the yellow triangles with red crosses appear over every object on the screen. We run OFS to enable communication between PLC and Vijeo Look. We use non-allocated variables in the project and probably the Visualisation does not work well with those unallocated variables after project changes. Can someone please describe steps which need to be taken to compile or upload a Concept project so that it works well in Vijeo Look with unallocated variables?

On Momentum PLC we have setup remote network modules as follows: On output modules with ADO 740 50 we have setup Last Value to Set to 0. Does it actually mean that the output value will be set to 0 in PLC memory immediately when PLC loses ethernet connection with the output module? We have setup hold up timeout on 170 ENT 110 01 on the remote side, but I am not sure how exactly the Concept parameters work with output remote modules. In the Concept documentation the process how Health Timeout and Last Value works is poorly documented. So the question is basically: How does Health timeout and Last Value parameters work in Concept Ethernet I/O Scanner with Momentum and remote output module ADO 740 50 with ENT 110 01? When timeout occurs in communication with output module ENT 110 01+ADO 740 50 and Last Value is configured to "Set to 0", does it mean that the output variable assigned to this remote module is set to 0 in PLC memory? If there are Timed out transactions on PLC with Health timeout expired, would that appear in Ethernet statistics on Momentum web page?

Dear all, I try to program function block. I have two WORD 402309 and 402310 in Hex the value is 410 for the first and 2A7A for the second. I need to read the value as a DWORD 4102A7A. Do there is DWord to DINT function block in concept 2.6? Do there is a way to convert the value easily? Regards.

Dear all, I need some help with programming time in concept 2.6 in FBD. I use momentum PLC 171 CCC 980 30-IEC I would like to program 24Hours Clock with day, week and year. Can someone help me with this please. Regards Sam