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Is the analog card the correct card. There is an F159 card. This is a weight cell specific card. It does require reading of the manual for the setup and calibration.    

Use the send command. Is this a Westermo. If so you will have to initialise the modem first.

Have you plugged the port into your PC and used terminal emulator. You might need winxp as win7 might have removed it. You will see if you are getting your data out the plc.

What settings have you got the ports?

OMITUNISIA No need to shout caps are very bad manners and likely to get you ignored. tonehunta See if you can speed read out or calculate the change in actual position over time to give speed.

You don'nt need the password to change the OMRON ip address. Using CX-programmer you should be able to upload the IO table and change it from there. Or you could bite the bullet and pay the programmer to change the IP.

From memory you will need a CIF unit and with the right printer. I did it with a recipt printer. Use a TXD and pump out a string of memorys containing the ASCII data you wish to print from the serial port on the CIF unit.

Have programmed the OMRON robots. (Rebranded Yamaha, was labled Yamaha and used yahama programming software as very early) Once you understood the language it was not to difficult to program. Mine was controlled via devicenet instructions. Thou serial would not be difficult depending on the PLC chosen or PC application.

CP1X with ethernet cif module have limited length message's. This is due to the limitations of CIF unit. Try it and if it works you are ok. If not red lion will need to release a new version of there software.

During the conversion process its done auto i thought. Pop ups are not changed thou.

2gb And do not use windows to format them. It uses the wrong format. I belive it is to with fat32 being used and the plc only supports old FAT16.

I have posted somewhere on here on how to use macro's to save PLC data on to a NS CF card. Cannot rememeber if i posted the load routine as-well. Just a reversal of a save really. Be aware that screen switching is disabled durring the macro operation. I quite a bit of time understading this to make it work nicely for the operator.

Declaring table arrays. With DIM and using SETR instructions are my prefered away and are handled using the index register.

Handle it all in the PLC / HMI. Ie PLC code to control the display of the fields. Save the data to PLC or HMI memory card. The save to a HMI is documented on the forum.

You don'nt need to use function blocks. A simple SEND or RECV instruction will work spot on.

The time would be a different fins message. I have done it in vb.net over ethernet sending fins messages. Provided the port is setup correctly i cannot see it being difficult to send the fins message's out of a RS232 port. There is a proper fins commands manual. Failing that OMRON finsgateway and compolet have prebuild tools avalible from OMRON.

I allways use NT-Link High speed.

Sounds like this would be easier with a CIF11 unit as you won't need the RS422 to RS232 conversion.

I would ignore the clock in the PLC and count time in 1second or 0.1 second pulses's and then use this alongside TIMX and TIMHX timers. (i prefer binary timers to the BCD ones)

If was me. I would look for componet analog cards. Then a CJ2M-CPU31 (PLC with build in ethernet) with CRM21 (componet card) and PSU of your choice. Small one 24v DC or 240v AC your choice. CJ1M-CPU11-ETN is more expensive then the CJ2M-CPU31 last time i checked. And its a far better CPU. Using AD081 cards is a very expensive route but would work very well. Depends on the profit / saving / cost of something going wrong on what you are monitoring.

A SEND command will send data with a fins header to the destination. You would still need software on the PC capable of receving a fins command, processing it and doing something with the data. My prefered option is for the PC to POLL the PLC.

Sounds like DHCP is being a bitch. Can you not asign static IP's. Else you will need to be able to work out the IP addresss of the PLC and PC and ensure they know each other address so you can make sure node numbers are correct.

How about using thr CF card to store the daat with the username as the filename.

Another vote for compoNet.

Oh and use network 1. I use the SEND and RECV commands to send data across a network.