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I have a project to put in a PLC system, (omron) into a research facility. I have done this before and used the omron multi drop connector, (I dont generally like them as they are not very well designed, if you have a small box you have to remove the whole thing off the din rail to get the connectors off.) I am looking for something that I can wire up using tek cable (Flexible armoured with the plastic sheath) 1/2 conduit connections. that comes as a prebuild package I have about 50 - 60 of these things to make and I would much rather just purchase the finished product. any suggestions would be great

Hi I am pritty new to Factory Talk, Our Priamary Server went down hard and I am trying to restore it. I Have a new server with Win 2k3 R2 installed and updated, I have installed all the Factory talk software. The questions I am not sure about is the following 1. How do I restore the high availability connection with the backup server 2. How do I restore all the project files etc. 3. I have an OPC connection to a PI database that also needs to be installed any advice on this? Thank you for any help

Mmmm Ok We are going to be Replacing the Dead (no file recovery possible) primary HMI Server with a new Server I have installed the Factory Talk View site edition. the backup server is currently being used to operate the plant. I have the New server, OS and Factory talk software installed. does this change the advice? thanks for the help

I may be interested what are you asking?

Actually I believe that if everything you use is CSA approved and you follow the Local Code you dont need CSA certification, Unless perhaps if you are making the panels for a machine IE a oven that will be sold in canada and then the whole machine needs to be CSA certifyed. If you are making a one off panel as long as the panel and everything in it are CSA approved you dont need to get it recertifyed. I may be wrong but that is the way my company works and they are by the books...

Indusoft also has some inexpencive options....

good catch, I almost forgot that some PLC come that way - so used to using Omron - And device net...

Personally I always try to keep everything horizontal due to the fact that I also always bring my cables in at the bottom and that it ends up being easyer to change things after the fact. I have attached a rough drawing I did not do any measurements on it but this will keep everything neat and will probably allow you to add more into it later layout.pdf

Ok I finaly broke down and bought the software I am now playing around with it and I cant seem to figure out how to get the display ocx to show a decimal place. In the plc I am scaling the Input to 0-2000 (0-200°C) and would like to get the display to show 0.0-200.0°C. I know that I can do it just by reading the value in and dividing by 10 but I would like to use the control that came with the software.

I have been asked to put together a few nema 7 start stop enclosures. does anyone know a company in North america makes them.

good stuff.

Ok this is my first time with a NT touch Screen I am using the NT Support Tool 4.7 1. I am looking for the cable pin out for both of the setups mentioned in the title just the cable # would be great, I just want to make sure its not the cable. 2. AAAAGggggg cant seem to connect to the NT screen.. I have tryed everything..... well I guess not everything because I am obviously missing something. do I have to do anything on the touch screen in order to download a program... Please and thank you ..

Ok so I am in transmitt mode Thanks ... I also forgot to mention that this is a brand new nt21. Is there a difference between port a and b. I still cant seem to connect I am using a usb to rs232 cable as my laptop doesnt have any frikkken serial ports. I will try a real one today when I get home. ps the rs232 connector that i am using does work with omron plc's, I am trying to connect using cable cn210. is that correct. Thanks..

Hi just wondering if anyone here works in a company who has ~>1500 employees and knows who their IT department reports to. thanks in advance

hmm I know that some "water" process solution got into one of our panels and killed 2 of them but that was maybe 3 months ago.... maybe it didnt completely fry the other 2 that died in the last couple of weeks...

Ok I am not sure but it seems to me that they are a little less reliable than the rest of the omron products. Has anyone else had any problems with them. It could also be something in my systems that is screwing them up. I have had to replace 2 this year :( I am looking into it but just wondering if anyone else had experianced failures with these devices. thanks

Nice thanks for the heads up ...

Ya that is what we use too.

Everything......as much as I can think of plus a little extra.

happybdaydude.............

what are your conversion values. ie 100 rpm = 10v you have to look at the internal wiring diagram in order to understand what is happening. I have had similer problems on most of the analog cards I have used. the problme is normaly noise or feed back from the other inputs that are using the same common. (diodes normaly fix this.) normaly the problem happens when you break the connection it seems. I normaly try to not break the connection and then follow what PDL said in that find the minimum value that you will ever go. divide it by 2 and then set a compare statement ie if the value drops below that point then move 0 into the area that you are reading.

I am using a DL06 with a High Speed counter I have set up the counter using the CTRIO software and it seems to work. I selected V400 as the starting memory area for the CTRIO unit and V426 for the output start memory area. I have output the double counter value to the LCD screen and that works. Now I am trying to be able to reset the counter from eather an external input (X0) or an internal bit CIO. I cant seem to get it to work is there anything I am missing. how do I reset the counter value. please the other problem is getting the Values in the memory area to display in the ladder view in the Direct soft program. is there away to do this. I would like to be able to see what is in the reg that I am currently using. Thanks in advance for any help

Ya it all has to do with the input being in the C memory area hell I tryed everything else because if you us the 2 range setup the counter wont update properly in the C memory area....

Ok I got it going I guess the main thing that I had a problem with was the 4 mapped ranges but after I changed that it worked great. Thanks a ton sorry for being a little daft. Peace

Cool thanks I will try it out today and let you know how I do. thanks for your help and your time. Peace