tragically1969

HI, has anybody used a Fluke 125 Scopemeter, we are mainly interested in its BUS and comms testing capabilities i.e. modbus, RS-485, RS-232, Ethernet etc We are constantly coming up against problems on site and on commisioning in the factory and find ourselves effectivley working blind to diagnose problems with these types of connections How did you find it, easy to use, overkill for what you needed etc ?

thats because you did not say it was GX IEC Developer !! (perhaps i should have known by the version number) I dont know if its possible to do this with IEC as i dont use it only GX developer, sorry !!

You dont have to anything to change it, its just the way you view it, just go to View>Ladder to view in IL again just go to View>Instruction List , thats it !!

This normally happens when it is not connected to the PLC, is it detecting the PLC on startup ?

I presume we are talking Citect here ? The AN may be in an included project, try searching those ?

MX4 is Citect branded by Mitsubishi

I dont think you can do this, I have just created my own at the bottom, i use text in a rectangle the same colour as the pen Do you mean rotate things dynamically on the page in runtime like a fan or to rotate a static graphic by x degrees in design ? If you want to rotate something on screen in runtime it can be done with a little bit of thought and fiddling !! I am not in front of the software at the moment so i dont know about the third,but if you only need one or two dotted lines create them in another graphics package and import it, you can also do this if you want to rotate a static symbol

I have only used 6.10 so dont know if its there in 5.21, but its in the Project Editor under File>Find in 6.10

i had a quick play with it last night and it works fine and seems to do exactly what you want, i set it up to monitor a reports output directory from scada every 60 seconds and it printed the new ones that appeared

take a look here: http://www.traction-software.co.uk/batchprint/ its not freeware but looks like it may do your job

Have you looked on the download section of any mitsubishi sites ?, these are listed on the UK one: GX IEC Developer 7.01 Reference Manual Manuals English Software 043597 PDF (11479 KB) K (11/06) GX IEC Developer 7.01 Beginner's Manual Manuals English Software 043596 PDF (869 KB) K (11/06) here: http://194.130.244.64/branch/database/serv...amp;portal_id=3

The easiest way is to to use the intelligent function utility, you can set all the things you have mentioned then leave the PLC to do its stuff. Essentially you use the IF utlity to setup which slave you are reading from, what you are reding, where to put what you are reading and how often, its a little tricky to setup but once done its a breeze, its all fairly well documented in the manual from page 8.8 onwards: http://194.130.244.64/branch/database/serv...loc&id=1694

You could do what i do and use a command line in a couple of .bat files: STATIC: netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" static 192.168.254.88 255.255.255.0 DHCP: netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp works a treat and its all i ever use for switching about

The Mitsubishi implementation of Modbus is a little awkward to configure and use on their cards but I ended up using the intelligent function utlity to configure reads and writes to the modbus slaves, what are you reading\writing from ?

I will second the PCMCIA route, i have used the Brainboxes ones with Mitsubishi GX-Developer, GX-IEC-Developer and the old Medoc DOS program and heaps of other legacy programming tools for Redlion, Schneider etc. all in windows XP Pro with no problems The only thing to watch for is that some older programs will only give you access to COM1 or COM2, these are usually nabbed by newer laptops for Blutetooth ports and other associated garbage, so you may have to use the hardware manager to move things around a bit

Hey guys, does anybody know of a function within Citect where at runtime you can have a user select a Tag from the database then display the value on screen ? Essentially what i need to do is let the user select multiple tags and then somehow add these together to display a total based on the tags selected ? I know it sounds simple but its proving to be a little tricky, any ideas would be great

Is he not asking how to take a reference from the voltage transducer (possibly connected to an analogue input) at 24 points and display this on the HMI ? I imagine they have got something moving about connected to the transducer which at certain points based on either inputs or time would take the sample from the transducer If so the SHFT (L or R) command would work perfectly, and i am not going to write it for him either ;-0

Do you get an input for the 'beat' if so i would just have a fast timer running and every time the beat came in reset the timer and take the value that was in the timer, its going to be fairly random, you could do some furter randomistaion of the timer by adding and subtracting values from another timer which was running

yeah figured it all out now thanks, was the adjust decimal checkbox that was screwing it up thanks again

Hi, all I usually use the E series HMI's for projects but am using a GOT GT11**, I am fairly new to the GOT platform and am struggling to figure something out In the E series you can specify an unsigned integer to use decimals then scale this into the PLC, the only way i can see of using decimals in the GOT is to use REAL then convert in the PLC to integer which is a lot of messing around Am i missing something ? What i need to be able to do is enter a decimal on the HMI, for example 12.6 then scale this to 126 in the PLC so i can use the values to compare with data coming in from and analogue unit and also read an integer say 168 then scale this to 16.8 to display on the HMI, i can do all of this with the E series no problems without messing with FLT in the PLC etc. thanks for any help

thanks, my problem is the decimal place is always grayed unless i select real ?

OK, so it appears i was missing something, you configure the view data and data type as seperate parts so view is real and data type is unsigned 16bit

thanks but this manual is specific to the GOT 900 series and does not relate to the GT11** which does not appear to handle decimals other than real numbers