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I was just wondering. Will I be able to see who logged in to reset whatever alarm? I am able to download a list of the alarms from the PanelView using a memory stick that has an Allen Bradley bat file. Will the username be displayed on this file? Conor Edit: I have just set up users in the PV security and then downloaded the alarms. It does not show up in the history file. I am using the RSView Enterprise File Viewer.exe to look at the alarm list. I think that I will have to use the PLC verification that JRoss taked about. We only have a 3 digit employee number here so that might be easy enough to set up

Hi guys, I have a PanelView Plus 1000 that I am using to Flash up important alarms from various PLC's. I was wondering if there is a way to set up a Username and password way of acknowledging the alarms. Currently I have a just a button that acknowledges the alarms. The PanelView is in a common area and there have been a number of instances where an alarm has been silienced and the operator for that area was not informed of the alarm. I would be most grateful of any help, Thanks, Conor

Hi guys, I have not yet used VLan's with my Stratix Managed Switches. I was wondering if I can use a VLan to route signals through my Managed Switches. My normal network is 192.0.2.xxx. Can I use the VLan to connect on to the company network, 10.xx.xx.xx? I have both 8000 and 5700 types of Managed switch Conor

It is for a security project. Biometric readers at one end of the Plant, and the security software is on the company network Conor

Thanks HKU_MS. I will have a search for that now

Thanks very much Jeremy, That would have taken me an awful long time to figure that you. Thanks again, Conor

Hi guys, Thanks for yuor replies, I will look at both when I have the Usernames set up first. I have the pdf of the following manual, 2711P-UM001J-EN-P. There is not much in this about Username's and passwords. Is there another manual? Thanks again, Conor

But this machine had ran fine for at least 2 years. I had it powered off before and it came back fine each time?

Hi guys, I was just talking to Zebra tech suport. I have explained what I want to do and sent on info to them, and they are looking into this. He told me that their printers use the langauges EPL and ZPL. Does anyone know if I can send this kind of info out of my L35E or my MVI69-GEC? If I get any solutions or idea's from Zebra I will post them here too. Thanks Conor

I cant seem to find a printer. I have emailed Zebra, but just got a generic answer. I have contacted Prosoft tech support. The guy was very nice and helpful, but they don't have anything documented, so no answer there either. Any other makes?

Hi Guys, I am using an L35E as a centralized data collection point for my site. I have about 12 PLC's that I need to Read/Write info to. With the exception of two of the PLC's I only have a cuople of tags in most of these. The PLC's that I am Read/Writing to are PLC5's, SLC's and CompactLogix, mainly L35E's. I have structured a messaging counter to trigger each Read or Write in sequence with a timer doing the addition and resettingat a specific number. My timer runs at 100 ms per count. I have each seperate Message at a different count. I was wondering what is the best way of checking how my PLC is performing with all of these messages running, or is it going to be ok as I have the messages running at seperate times (counts). Is there a GSV that I can run to see my system performance. Also, what would the optimal time for the timer be? I.E. is 100 ms too fast or slow? Thanks, Conor

Hi guys, I am trying to implement an RFID system that will read a tag on a truck. I would need the reader to be about 1.5 to 2 meters away from the tag. I will be able to connect to a managed switch very close by to the reader. I looked up the Bradley stuff, but the tag readers seem to be very small distances, probably better for a production line. Any help would be most grateful Thanks, Conor

In reply to Cookie Monsters reply: A while back someone told me about Netset man. http://www.netsetman.com. I have used it ever since for setting my IP address on my Engineering Laptop. It is very handy as you can set up to 6 different IP configurations. I think that I have 5 set up. It speeds up the process great.

Hi guys, I have looked up the documentation and could find a Hart module for the 1734 Point I/O. I was wondering if anyone has done anything like this before. I have some new instruments that I am taking Analogue inputs to my Point I/O. These instruments are Hart enabled and I have been told by the instrument manufacturer that I will be able to take more process values if I was utilizing the Hart on the instrument. He has suggested using a Hart Multiplexer. This Multiplexer would then give me up to 4 Analogue outputs. I was wondering if there is another way of doing this? My Point I/O is connected to my PLC over Ethernet Thanks , Conor

I have to agree with the guys here. I am able to buy my AB stuff off two different suppliers, and the price differences can be significant. For me it comes down to which one is giving me the best customer support. I will buy most of my stuff off one supplier, but always keep the other in the loop, as this way if I need a part quickly I can get off both. Also the cheaper one does not always have the stock.

Hi Bob, I also found this doc while doing a bit of searching on this topic, http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/cnet-um001_-en-p.pdf Conor

Hi Bob, We have a good bit of ControlNet here on site. I was lookng into re-scheduling before and I came across some good Powerpoint presentations on AB tech support. I downloaded them all from there. I am not sure if you have Tech support contract, but there is a tech note 46577 that shows your exact error. If you dont have tech support I can re-word tech note 46577 ( I think I can do that according to the rules of this site??). Conor

Hi, If you are online (or offline as well) with RSNetworx, click on the Scanner card, normally Node 0. Then Click on Scanlist. Select the Node that your E3Plus is, the Click on Inputs. You should see where the Inputs are being mapped. You will see the same on Outputs. There is a parameter set around parameter 60 (I think) for inputs, that will let you read current or any other values available. These are set up again by the parameters. So if you Have a look at this link http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/193-um002_-en-p.pdf It takes a bit of reading, but is all in this manual. I have setup E3Plus overloads on Logix and PLC5's using this manual Conor]]PS. Sorry, I would go online with Networx to change these parameters.

Hi guys, I have an L35E on my network. I need to connect to a Weighing system. Below is an excerpt from the FDS TCP/IP connection The remote host can connect to the weighing terminal using TCP/IP socket port. The host connects as a TCP client using the terminal IP address and the terminal port “1234”. I was wondering if someone could help me out with this please. I have not used this type of connection before. Thanks, Conor

Hi again, I have tried out a few of these instructions but I am not getting the outcome that I expect. I have attached a screendump from the code. The data is being read by the PLC, but each Sint has '' around the values. i.e. GEC.Clients[0].ReadData[14] is 'A' My question is how do I read the whole message from the unit in to a format without the '' As far as I can see from the message the end of message comes in on GEC.Clients[0].ReadData[68]. This contains '$7F'. I take it that this is the end of message. I would be very grateful with any help you guys may be able to give me on this Thanks, Conor gec_ascii.bmp

Hi guys, I got the Prosoft MVI69-GEC, set it up and am reading ASCII from the Weigh Bridge system. My problem now is that the data comes into the PLC as ASCII into the Tags that I copied from the Sample Logix in the Prosoft. How do I get convert that ASCII into readable data? Thanks, Conor

Hi guys, I have a new installation with 1734-IE8C. I have connected an ABB Magmaster flow meter and used a Signal isolator to get the mA signal in to the 1734-IE8C. What is the best way to connect an Active signal?? Thanks, Conor

Hi guys, I am doing a new project were I am connecting an L35E to a Siemens controller. I have the Profibus connected and working, but I have found that there is byte swapping when sending INT data from Siemens to L35E. I have been able to use the SWPB instruction to reverse the byte swap, but this instruction only is for a length of one INT. I have an Array of data coming over, about 100 INT's. Can someone tell me the best way of un-swapping the complete Array Thanks, Conor

Not sure about that setting Ken. I am off tomorrow, but will check on Thurs when back in Thanks for your advise

I have used these before, but they need the full pipe as well http://www.ifm.com/products/us/ds/SU9000.htm