CEDEng

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  1. Proficy activation help!

    Ok, minor change to situation - I have (inadvertently) erased the disk...but not before I wrote down the activation code. There's a field to manually type in the activation code, and I've done that. Now it says my serial and activation code don't match - which is odd since the serial number auto-filled itself in. If I type in garbage numbers, it says they're garbage, so i fee like I've entered the right stuff.  Still, no dice. Ideas?
  2. Proficy activation help!

    I'll try to condense, ask questions if needed... 1.  I have GE Proficy ME on my old PC, 7.0. 2.  I have a new PC - so I did the "Move Authorization" - which ultimately put it on a floppy (yes, a floppy, yes, I have one, yes it worked...so far...). 4.  The NEW PC - with the floppy - said Invalid Authorization Disk.  It would not let me move the key. 5.  Now I want the key back off the floppy and on my OLD PC.  I can only use ADD because MOVE wants to write on the disk again.  6.  This version has no USB support, but I'm ok with that.  We have a new version on another PC that does do USB, and we used that to get the new PC working.  So I'm just stuck with making this old one work again.  7.  Why won't it let me put the key back on??  It says - right in the window - this disk contains such-n-such a key - why is it Invalid? Thanks for any help you can provide!
  3. I/O Breakout

    Thanks - that does offer some options! But - and call me stupid here if necessary, i won't deny it - most/all of these involve the removable terminal block that is already there. I want something that the removeable terminal block (that appears at the end of most of the cables in the publication) plugs into. Did I miss it? My setup would be: NewControl ----wire-----MagicSocket: ==== Existing(removable orange)block --- field wires. So the newcontrol, the wire, and the mystery part can all be pre-done. The old plc - including its backplane and everything on it - are going in the garbage can. I just want to pull that orange block off - and not undo any wires - and plug the orange block onto something else. These things in the publication are really really close to what I want...but in the end, none of them plug ON to the terminal block..but instead, plug onto the Input or Output module in the backplane. Make sense?
  4. Replacing PLC (SLC..) with different controls altogether. The top "terminal block" of the 1746... I and O modules pops right off. Does such a thing exist somewhere that would plug onto the back of that terminal block, like a "breakout box" of sorts? Something? Anything? I need to return the system to its original PLC state from time to time during the transition - and this would be a ton easier if I could pop that block off, plug it onto The Mystery Part (that is terminated at my new controller), and swap control systems back and forth this way during the transition. Any ideas? The alternative is to break all several hundred wires, put a mass-connect header on both sides, and go that way. Time consuming, but would work, less signal integrity. Thanks!
  5. profibus help

    Feel free to direct me to a more appropriate forum...this one seemed right! I have some experience with Profibus (and the rest) but it's been a few years. Now I have a requirement I cannot solve on my own, so far. Can I truly simulate a profibus master on my PC, with just the rs232/profi converter? (looks like a 232/485 converter...). I have one of those "master simulator" programs - and it seems to sort of work - but I have also read on many sites and forums that the only way to do it "right" is through hardware (the profibus card for my pc). So - what's the scoop? Can I truly simulate Profibus entirely with software? Is this simulation thing limited somehow? I figure if the code in the simulator can do it - I can write my own code to do it, albeit with pain. I just need to know if it is, in theory, possible, or not? Thanks, all, in advance.
  6. QuickPanel

    Excellent info! Tried it, worked great, thanks much everyone!
  7. QuickPanel

    VersaMax/Proficy ME with QuickPanel View Is there a way to change the panels from the PLC (as opposed to always using a GOTO button)? Thanks!
  8. Indexing

    I have another question (I've recently posted the DOWNLOAD problem, but let's move on from that for now). Again, thanks in advance for your help. I have come to understand, after a while of googling, that using indirect or indexed addressing in Step 7 is not necessarily intuitive or straightforward. So, I won't ask, necessarily, for advice on that, but rather, ANY method of storing and retrieving a user-entered list of data. In my perfect dream world HMI, there is a scrolling list of these stored strings, which the operator has created earlier in life, and now scrolls up and down through, pressing a SELECT button when he sees the one he wants. (I've purposefully avoided using terms like Recipe, Index, Indirect, Register, Pointer, etc. - I know exactly what I want to accomplish, and exactly how I would do it in AB - but I need help here in Siemens world!) Thanks!
  9. Siemens Help

    Thanks for the response. Yes, I have managed to download, several times, until now. It is ProTool. I think I found a way to make it go, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If I make sure the PLC is in RUN Mode, then it seems to download. But - the PLC is through a separate port, and cable; I am not trying to update the panel through the PLC, but directly from my laptop. Anyway, it works, (well, on the 2nd attempt, always) - weird.
  10. Siemens Help

    S7 200-series, TP170b - When I try to download from my PC to the TP, I get the "wait for RT to shut down" message, but nothing happens after that. While watching my panel, it does leave the screen it's on, says "SHUTTING DOWN" or something to that effect, then goes to the "connecting to host" pop-up on the panel, where it sits until it errors out on the PC. Before y'all bury me with cable, address and baud rate issues please consider: It all worked earlier today; all I did was Edit a button, now it doesn't work. Even when it works, it ALWAYS fails to connect the first time through, then ALWAYS connects the 2nd time around. Make sense to anyone? Thanks in advance for your insight - PLCs are not new to me, but Siemens is, and I want to make this work!