tash robinson

lchamarthi thanks that is very helpful!! exactly what I wanted. can I ask where you got those charts? I have a bunch of manuals but couldn't find anything like that. thanks again!

OK nevermind I finally found it clock function area (A351 to A354).

How do I access the internal clock of the CS1 in a ladder program? I can read it fine from FINS, but I want to access it on the PLC. Where is it located? When the power comes on to the PLC I want to store the Date and Time that the PLC booted. Is this possible? What would be the easiest way? Thanks.

I am just wondering if it would be possible to write a tool that would backup and restore or update the program in a CS1 PLC using FINS commands over ethernet? Basically I need a tool to easily load or update the PLC program using only ethernet and no other programs (cx programmer or cx server). I need the production people and/or customers to be able to take a new PLC, plug in the ethernet cable run this tool and then automagically the PLC is setup and the program is loaded and ready to run. Is there a way to upload the settings and IO table using ethernet without first using cx programmer to configure the PLC and ETN21? Would it be feasable to use the File read and write commands and the Program/memory/parameter area file transfer commands to backup or load new PLC programs? I am going to attempt to write a tool like this, but since I am kind of new to this I was hoping someone experienced could tell me if this is practical or if it is not possible. Is there an easier way to do this? Thanks for any guidance you can give me.

Thanks! That may be just what I need.

Ethernet

Do you know if there is a developer version or redistibutable OCX available? The price for CX server lite is pretty steep to have to buy one for each end user, maybe I need to write it without using the OCX. Can you recommend any other way that I could talk to a CS1 PLC that I can redistribute? Our omron distributer told us that the easiest way to write our VB app to talk to the CS1 PLC was to use the CX server lite, but they didn't mention that we can't distribute the app. If it is the only way, then we will need to buy a copy for each customer along with the PLC's I guess. thanks again.

I have an application I built in VB using the CX server lite CX Comms OCX. The application is working fine, but does anyone know if it is possible to redistribute this OCX? Just including it in my package does not install it correctly and it ends up with missing dependancies. Do I need to buy a copy of server lite for each user of the application? (Yikes!) I can't find anything about this from Omron or in the manual. thanks for any help!