Chris Elston

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  1. File Name: IAI E-Stop and Enable Parameter Wizard Program File Submitter: chakorules File Submitted: 4 Nov 2003 File Category: Robots and Servos Wizard EXE program that helps you change your X-SEL IAI robot parameters to resume recover from an e-stop or however you want to set up your program. This is a wizard that asks you some questions then tells you what parameters to change in the robot to Click here to download this file
  2. All my posts have been deleted!

    Andy, I think I brought back all the topics and posts to your topics, etc...Let me know if you are missing any other data. (send me a PM) Chris
  3. All my posts have been deleted!

    I'll check into this..sorry about that!!! That's not normal.
  4. MrPLC won't open on a Mac?

    LOL...i dunno guys...
  5. Getting freelance PLC programming work

    Freelance website go to the lowest bidder. Rarely ever because you have better skillz than the guy bidding the lowest dollar amount, as well ever does a job work out that it's something you can drive too.
  6. Profibus to Serial

    I want to connect to a Siemens PLC with Profibus DP as a SLAVE, then have a way to send serial strings out through an RS-232 or RS-422 interface. I am working on a super simple application, so I would rather set some FLAG bits in the PLC, and when those FLAG bits are set, have a device send a "serial string" out. I am envisioning a lookup table in this "device" I am looking for, that when a FLAG bit is logical "1" in the PLC, it send the matching "string out" as an output. My question is, have any of you ever used a device like this? Where can I buy one? It's going to be a gateway device of some sort I imagine, but most of the common ones like Anybus or RTA are not made in the way I described. They handle the data as a pass through from serial byte data on the Profibus side through to a hex code on the ASCII serial side. I'd rather have a simple table inside the device, that I can configure the strings and map that string to a bit change of state from the PLC, and Boom Done...
  7. Getting freelance PLC programming work

    Mostly networking with local people. Or talk to SALES GUYS who go into all the businesses, they hear about rumors of places looking for some help.
  8. June 13th Data Loss

    FYI. If you posted anything from June 12th 2/3am to about June 14 10am. I lost your post. Or if you signed up between those times. I had a corrupt table and I had to restore from BACKUP on June 12th to bring it back. So it's like Friday the 13th never happened!
  9. Posting for a friend: "We need a robotics engineer out at our KLEENLine facility in Newburyport, MA. I’ve attached a job description so you can see what we are looking for." Robin Bauer HUMAN RESOURCES Shuttleworth LLC KLEENLine LLC powered by Pro Mach Robotics Project Engineer Job Description.pdf
  10. Profibus to Serial

    How many "trigger" bytes can I configure in the Anybus? I thought if I recall, I could only setup one. I've used many, many Ethernet/IP to Serial Anybus modules, just not a Profibus one. The way I did the Ethernet/IP one was I send over a string and the module re-transmits the string. So it does not operate on a trigger byte. Attached is a sample of my Ethernet/IP version. The reason I elected this way is because I made custom AOIs in the AB PLC to send to the registers. Which worked out great. In this new application, I don't need to make an elaborate interface, I was hoping to configure "trigger" bits that would send dedicated strings. I was hoping for maybe 10-20 string I could pre-configure in a gateway. Anybus-EDI-192.168.1.13-RS232-9600baud.zip
  11. I am looking for a moon light Siemens Programmer that is based in Indiana or Illinois that I could meet with you and talk about some projects. If you feel like you are an expert Siemens PLC geek, letmeno.
  12. 1734-232ASC

    I wrote a First Experience Article on this, when I used it on DeviceNET. I am not sure if you are describing the same problem, but I could not clear the buffer. I dunno if that is something you can't do or what. I can describe what I saw here. http://www.mrplc.com/kb/index.php?article=80
  13. I would like to create an AOI that is mapped to some local I/O and Ethernet I/P address bits. If my AOI is to be reusable (imported from PLC to PLC), there could be a chance that the Ethernet I/P addressing would be different in each PLC. Someone would have to go into the AOI and map the I/O that is used in the AOI. What's the best practice to map Ethernet I/P I/O mappings to your AOI? Can anyone give some pointers? I have an idea how to do this, but I am not sure it's the best way. Just wanted to poke your brains and make sure I did not miss anything in the AOI configuration and creation stage. And...I do know that Add on Instructions are "not intended for outside access" or Allen Bradley uses the term "Encapsulation". I want to sort of kind of...break the "Encapsulation" concept of AB.
  14. I tried that trick already and still in the process. I used NotePad++ with the Compare Plugin to find differences, I found that version 17.0 had extra header information than the version 16.0 headers. I tried to delete all extra headers, but I haven't found what it likes or dislikes yet...but yes...I am tinkering in Notepad now.
  15. Has anyone had any problems making an AOI in version 17, then doing an export, then trying to reimport that AOI into version 16? I get a failed import on version 16 with an AOI that was exported from version 17.
  16. I think I answered my own questions. It appears that is the case. If you make an AOI in a higher version of Logix 5000 and you export the L5X file, you can not take that L5X file and import that into a lower version. You will get an Failed to Import message. However if you make an AOI in a lower version of Logix 5000 and export the L5X file, you are free to bring that import file upward into higher versions of Logix. At least that is what my one hour experiment has proven to me.
  17. Rockwell to Excel

    Sounds like your connection is not opened? I have a sample code here you can look at. http://forums.mrplc.com/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=134
  18. [PLC Sample Code] - Micrologix basic blocks

    What a GREAT idea. Nice upload. Thanks for sharing and teaching the community.
  19. I used a Scale and 232ASC on Devicenet and wrote about it here: http://www.mrplc.com/kb/index.php?article=80 Maybe it will give you some insight.
  20. Rslogix5000 through VPN

    Your VPN relies on your network connection or internet connection. So if you have a slow internet or lag, yes this will affect RSLogix 5000.
  21. I am helping a couple of guys I know with Factory Talk Transaction Manager. I've never used this or RSSQL. They have setup an upload from the PLC to the SQL and it's working just fine. What they would like to do it drive or trigger an event from SQL, to download from SQL to the PLC tags they have mapped. Looking at Transaction Manager software, it looks like it wants a Procedure for this. Also, looking at the wording for the features of Transaction Manager is says: "Customer that want to upload specific event data from a controller to their corporate database". In my mind, Transaction manager is designed only for ONE WAY communication....Am I right? Who knows for sure? Question #1: Is Transaction manager only ONE-WAY from controller to SQL? Question #2: Do they need something else like Factory Talk Integrator to be-able to do bi-directional communication between SQL and the PLC? Question #3: Is there or can you post a sample of a procedure, or any other samples that might help getting data from SQL written into the PLC tags that are mapped in Transaction Manager? Thanks
  22. Will this work for you? http://forums.mrplc.com/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=575
  23. PLC Integration

    You can do that through DDE or OPC link depending how fast and how much data. If you search the Downloads in Allen Bradley for "DDE" there is a spreadsheet with some VBScript how to get data out. You'll need RS Linx running on the PC you want to suck the data out of the PLC with and it needs to be connected the PLC in some manner.
  24. Ok I re-read your post (twice). I agree with Mr. Roach. Do like one or to tags, then export the file as a CSV or something. Then open in EXCEL and edit everything in there. Then import back into your project. That's how I edit a bunch of tags as well.
  25. I don't understand your post fully, but I have moved strings into registers before and concatenated them. I wrote an AOI for an LED sign that has a whole lotta string crap in it, if you import this AOI you can view the ladder and see if anything there helps you out. I guess by providing some samples of strings I've done, I didn't know if that would help. LEDSIGN.zip