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Hi Sergei, I have suggested PMCR and asked him personally to join. I have changed jobs recently and am not actively involved with Omron products anymore, and given his widespread knowledge of both old and new Omron products and software together with his way of teaching and taking the time to help others I thought he would be a good candidate. Basically there is no guideline for this procedure, anyone can apply, whereafter the moderating team will give their opinions. Hope this answers your question!

Make sure you have the zoom set at 100%. Any other level makes the objects look different. E.g. a label might fit on a button when zoomed at 150%, but when you zoom out to 100% it suddenly overlaps. 100% is how it will appear on the terminal.

Hi Bob, A bit tugged away on the website: http://www.ubnt.com/purchase/australia

By my knowledge the NQ series cannot be simulated using CX-Designer or CX-Simulator simply because it is not part of the CX-One suite, this HMI is as I believe a low cost product from India and kind of an odd one out in between the NS series. The NQ Designer software is also not from the same development team as CX-One.

A good tip from forum member pro17 to overcome the difficulty and cost of tyring to obtain small memory size CF cards: http://forums.mrplc.com/index.php?showtopic=22077&pid=106959&st=0entry106959

I sure hope that when you do Bob, you will use a quality OPC server like Kepware. The Omron drivers for Kepware are way, way better than the big player SCADA systems native Omron drivers (Citect FINS, Cimplicity TCP/IP). The throughput performance doubles at least, the driver documentation is the best and collects all important info on a few pages as opposed to Omrons own bibles, the driver even tells you when you have forgot to set your routing tables where native Omron drivers let you look for days. The support for new memory types like DM bits (CJ2) Work area etc are released months before any other driver even earlier than Omrons own software CX-Designer etc. I can imagine your experience with BACnet OPC was a horror story but don't treat all OPC servers alike...

I sure hope that when you do Bob, you will use a quality OPC server like Kepware. The Omron drivers for Kepware are way, way better than the big player SCADA systems native Omron dirvers (Citect FINS, Cimplicity TCP/IP). The throughput performance doubles at least, the driver documentation is the best and collects all important info on a few pages as opposed to Omrons own bibles, the driver even tells you when you have forgot to set your routing tables where native Omron drivers let you look for days. The support for new memory types like DM bits (CJ2) Work area etc are released months before any other driver even earlier than Omrons own software CX-Designer etc. I can imagine your experience with BACnet OPC was a horror story but don't treat all OPC servers alike...

What OPC client application are you using? What is the update criteria? E.g. are the OPC tags being polled by a fixed interval, or is the client application controlling this (also known as unsolicited updates). E.g. when your OPC client gives a command to set a bool tag, the OPC successfully sets the bit value in the PLC, but next the question is how this data value update is being directed back to the OPC client. Some clients support unsolicited updates from the server, e.g. only the changed data is being pushed to the client, when no change by the server is detected no update are done. Some clients have a "poll after set" setting that will force a read back of any "set" data actions. Have you enabled the diagnostics function on the Kepware channel? (general Channel setting tab) Next you can launch View > OPC diagnostics for a detailed view on all events. Some more information is needed here, I suggest you open a dedicated topic and I will move relevant posts to it.

I once had a problem with address formatting. I imported an alarms CSV file, address formatting was wrong but CX-Designer swallowed it anyway and was able to download. I got this error on the screen where I had my alarm list. Only when I manually tried to open/close the alarm list entry it gave me a fault on the address.

Check the EDS file (open in Notepad) for the device name (I think the string is Model_name), perhaps it is not what you expect and you are overlooking it in the library tree? else, post the EDS file, so I can try.

I think you have to update the library. Try "Update DTM catalog", does that help?

Good suggestion Banker, of course the CJ2M also supports Ethernet I/P I asume you are referring to this article? http://www.myomron.c...kb&article=1321

Yes correct it does not support socket services but it does support FINS commands!

Hi Valerio, You can use the FINS SEND&RECV function bloks for this. You can import them from Omron FB library installed with CX-One, C:\Program Files\OMRON\CX-One\Lib\FBL\omronlib\PLC\CPU _CPU010_SendData.pdf _CPU011_ReceiveData.pdf

You are sure dipswitch 5 is ON and you power cycled following before trying to connect? The interface module Bob is referring to is also a method (preferable) to connect. You need a CQM1-CIF02 which is a complete cable or CQM1-CIF01 which is just a converter to RS232 and you will need the cable above. There are also a lot of brand labeled products which work very well and are far less expensive. Check the MrPLC.com store or Google.

Getting rusty eh Bob?

Yes you would need to have the host PLC connected and communicating for you to be able to operate the pages. If you want to test your program you can use the integrated simulation and manipulate the PLC data with a test tool, or even hook it up to a simulated PLC program. Not sure if this all was available in V2.1 but pretty sure.

I believe it should be possible using below cable diagram.. Make sure to turn dipswitch #5 to ON position to force default settings for the RS232C port. Set network type in CX-Programmer to Sysmac Way, port settings 9600, 7,e,2. Attached 2 manuals that can be useful. W226–E1–5 CQM1 Operation manual.pdf W228-E1-08 CQM1 Programming Manual.pdf

CJ1W-ETN21 does NOT support Ethernet I/P or Profinet CJ1W-EIP21 supports Ethernet I/P CJ1W-PNT21 is a Profibus IO Controller unit for CJ series. There is no unit that does both Ethernet I/P and Profinet.

Correct. Might as well throw that one out.

There is also the CP1E for really small systems but beware!! No function blocks in there..

If driver installation does not succeed automatically, point to C:\Program Files\OMRON\Drivers\USB\PLC_NS If still no luck, use attached drivers. p.s. gtsuport's method is also correct, that location contains the same drivers. PLC_NS (Vista 32bit).zip PLC_NS (Vista 64bit).zip PLC_NS (Win7 32bit).zip PLC_NS (Win7 64bit).zip PLC_NS (WinXP).zip PLC_NS Win2000.zip

Sounds like he just has a ETN21 and not an EIP21. Hence Ethernet I/P is not supported but FINS Ethernet is.

Hi Bob, There was a time one would post a question and check back a week later Have not done a lot of remote data collecting myself as most of our projects do not require to but we have done a project controlling Volvo Penta engines on board small passenger boats for offshore locations where the engine dealer wants to log all engine parameters, oil temp, exhaust gas etc etc. We used a nifty little device from a company called Netbiter. Basically it pulls the data from a CJ2M by serial Modbus and has a GPRS antenna but there are also models for local lan connections etc. The nice thing is they have a service where you can log in to a website and all your data is available, anywhere anytime. You can easily setup a few "main" pages with parameters, running status etc. It will log your data 24/7 but you can set it to periodically email the data and also define triggers to email or sms alarm messages etc. The big advantage is that you don't need to have a computer running dedicated macros or software to retrieve the data. Through their data log portal archos.net you can add more sites to an account, the customer has 1 portal to login and oversees the locations. You can have GPS antennas on them that integrate with Google maps etc. Check it out, http://www.netbiter.com/default.shtml As I said this is one of the few projects I did that involved remote data logging so I am sure there will be others with good ideas!