JustinSmith

I started with slc. Also slc is older than I am.

I reccomend using an Allen Bradley Micrologix PLC. Your control panel will be pretty small for your application. Do you know what sensors youll use? Do you have more info on your pump?

We like to add all of the specific parameters needed in the electrical drawings. I also like to keep a printout of all the parameters. https://rexel-cdn.com/Products/39E62596-1DCC-4029-9363-F11286CC741A/39E62596-1DCC-4029-9363-F11286CC741A.pdf

http://www.infoplc.net/files/descargas/rockwell/infoPLC_net_hsc_quick_start.pdf

We had an issue with a password protected PLC and after contacting the OEM they provided the password that they forgot to remove. But stealing intellectual property is illegal so you may have to factory reset the PLC and remake the program. 

The Tripplite keyspan usb serial adapter + a null modem adapter for my serial cable

Thanks guys. I got the adapter in the mail and it worked right out of the box. I was about to start pulling whats left of my hair out!

Have you tried contacting the OEM?

You would want to use serial communication. My only experience using the enet-adp is sending read requests from an IQ-R plc to the enet-adp. 

can you give me the model #/name of the modules you have?

Click on the device tab of connected components workbench and select update firmware.

They use the same hardware as everyone else. Robots, plc, cameras, ect. Most of the vehicles are attached to a car/train like Bruce says. as it goes down the line robots perform steps of a program and report back to a PLC and sometimes a cognex camera will take a picture of your parts.

Can you verify youre doing the steps starting at p25 of this manual? You can plug the module into any spot but you have to specify where in your project file. https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/qr/9328-qr001_-en-e.pdf

Channel 1 is set to dh485 and the indicator led slowly blinks, when I plug in the 1747-Uic to the port with a straight pass through cat5 cable the light continues to blink. On the 1747 the usb and dh485 lights occasionally blink but still nothing shows on rslinx 

So Im looking at the project file from another machine that has a similar setup and Chan. 1 - System is DH+ at 57.6k Baud, Chan. 0 - System is DF1 Full Duplex, Chan. 0 - User is ASCII 19200 baud. thats a 5/04 cpu though. Our machine in question has a 5/03. I will try the DH485 connection today but Im pretty sure our 1747 converter is broken for dh485