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Upgrade SLC 5/05 Firmware

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Greetings all! I have a SLC 5/05 OS501 Series C FRN 9. I would like to Update this to Firmware FRN 10. Does anyone know where to get the Control Flash program and a Firmware update FRN 10. Also any documentation on a simple way to do this would be great. I do have the rockwell documentation on how to do this

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Normally you purchase firmware upgrades from your local AB dist.

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Unless RA has changed things recently Firmware Upgrades for SLC 500 and PLC 5 must be purchased from your local RA distributor. It will come in a kit and have full instructions. THis is one advantage of the Logix 5000 CPU's where the firmware is downloadable {with support contract}.

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The part number for an SLC-5/05 firmware upgrade is 1747-DU501. FRN10 and FRN11 are the same Ethernet firmware, but I like the FRN11 support for Modbus master on the serial port. Both are superior to FRN9 with regard to Ethernet.

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I installed the FRN 10 on our SLC 5/05 and now I have an issue where the ethernet port becomes disabled every once in a while and I have to reboot the controller. I was told this is a known issue. I was told FRN 11 will fix the problem.

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I'm not an SLC firmware author or RA tech support engineer, but I investigated closely the difference between FRN10 and FRN11 recently for a customer with a wireless Ethernet problem that he thinks might be the fault of the controller firmware. I was told that FRN10 and FRN11 use the same firmware in the Ethernet daughtercard. I tend not to believe that "the next firmware will fix the problem" unless the problem is identifiable and has a name or bug tracker number.

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I am a bit skeptical myself but this problem didn't appear until after installing FRN10. I wouldn't have even installed FRN10 but I wanted a memory module and had to get my processor up to "spec" for it to take the module. If it is truly a bug, as stated by the Rockwell tech support, than I can only go by what they are telling me. If I had known there was an FRN11 I would have purchased that along with the M13 and not FRN10, I wasn't told by Rockwell there was a more recent upgrade.

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  1. hi i want  upgrade  firmware in myplc slc500 cpu model 1747-L532 ser D proc.rev 4.this is my cpu model .which firmware version is suitable the model.
  2. plse tell me any body
  3. how to download the firmware and which .com
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sir i want 1747 os302  series D ,but that .com series c os is available

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