tunnysting

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  1. Posted · Edited by tunnysting

    It may be different for smaller sized companies but we have 1000+ staff at our site and the cost of downtime is so great that the AB contract is worth it's weight in gold. Personally I've had problems with some software but there is always someone on the end of a phone 24/7 and they don't want to stop unless you're happy. Don't know if you have the P1 and P2 stock hardware support over in the US but it's got us out of trouble so many times, it's not cheap but when the plant is stood who cares?

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    Finished project thanks to all help, much appreciated! Took a few hours to draw a pretty HMI screen with the calibration on and my boss tells me he doesn't want any operators to be able to use it so I've had to use push buttons locked in a panel. Nevermind, it taught me more than I knew so it was worth it. Cheers, Lee.

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    We had 10 of these babies installed on site around 18 months ago and have had nothing but trouble from day 1. We have had 12 repair/replacements but they still seem to keep going down at a rate of 1 a month. The main problem initially was a hard drive issue that Rockwell have addressed but we still have crashes, touch screen going U/S, corruption of .mer files etc. Are there any similar product by another manufacturer that have greater reliability and run the Rockwell software (RSView ME station v3.2) with no hiccups. It needs to be IP65, touch screen and minimum 10GB memory. Cheers.

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    Managed to program a hard calibration at last, with your help. I was getting some weird and wonderful results till I rememberd what Ken said about alternating between HEX and DEC with the instance. Definitely one to remember, when Getting Attribute the instance needs to be in HEX but when Sending Attribute it needs to be DEC. Don't know about anyone else but to me that's just crazy. Cheers all.

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    I've been trying in vain to try and calibrate a HI200DNWM via a versaview. I took Bob's advice (cheers!) and first tried to read a value over devicenet using a MSG instruction but I keep getting the error 16#0001, extended error 16#0000_0113. These give the error path - Devicenet,2,1 and error test connection failure. I am using a flex1794-L34 controller with a 1788-DNBO/A devicenet card. The MSG instruction is via logix5000 v.13, it is a CIP generic, get attribute single. The class (from the weigh card eds file is CLass:F, Instance:14, Attribute: 1.) The destination tag is a DINT. In the communication tab the path is set as: Devicenet,2,1 (amplifier is node 1 on devicenet network) Connected is checked, cache is unchecked. When I enable the instruction I get the previous error message. When I rang rockwell tech support they thought it could be something to do with the class but when I tried the same figures using networx software it worked. Any ideas?