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I am searching for vibration monitoring hardware that will communicate through Device Net. Specifically, what I am looking for is hardware that will perform analysis on board while providing status feedback to a AB processor. I don't need real time vibration feedback. What I am looking for is something similar to IMF Effectors compact, remote device that will allow a snapshot of the data when polled and will communicate when it has detected a problem with either the machine it is monitoring or with itself. What I don't want is data that will require analysis from a "vibration guru". I have checked out Entek and IMF Effector. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Hi Bruce. I too have multiple processors on a contrologix gateway and have fortunately not experienced your problem (yet!!) I am curious as to what speed your DH+ is running at. We currently operate on my network at 56K. I have a long distance to span and most of my comms are for View programs only.

I am currrently adding an additional analog card (1746-NI8) to an existing and running project. I emphasise the word running as we have had little to no problems with it. The current project, amongst other I/O, contains two of the same analog card I am installing. Both work fine. My question revolves around the fact that within the current ladder logic, there is no evidence of any configuration words having been written to the output table of the current analog cards. I have always either written my own configuration or used the "wizard" provided within the I/O config advanced configuration. In both cases, there is a first pass bit with a copy instruction writing my config. word to the output table. But within the current project running on the processor, there is no evidence of any mov or copy instruction. Both cards contain 4-20ma and 0-10vdc inputs. The only hardware configuration is to decide whether the ch input will be current or voltage. I can't even find where the channels are enabled. WHY DOES THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION (OR LACK THERE OF) WORK? The output data table for these cards show a configuration word present. But, again, there is no logic to provide these words. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! I am probably missing the obvious, but am currently questioning my sanity. Thanks

We recently had a programmer quit who was our resident guru on Modicon Proworks plus. I normally only use Rockwell and have found a wealth of support with it. However, I have had a difficult time finding the same kind of technical support for Modicon and associated software, hardware. Does anyone know of a good resource for this? Thanks in advance for all assistance.

Hi Fransisco, I have been programming, modifying programs, troubleshooting faulty programs for a little more than a year now and have found that analizing others programs, with the instruction set as a reference, has proven extremely helpful. My first modification project involved rather complicated bit shift instructions in an multi-file program. I was tasked to delete certain functions and add others. It was very helpful (actually necessary) to figure out what the previous programmer was trying to accomplish with his or her methods of programming. After a few hair pulling attempts, I pulled it off and feel very confident with bit shift programming. Also, it might pay to chat with other programmers if available for a bit of mentoring. Hope this helps.