Steve Bailey

There are a couple of questionable items in your post. Panel View is an Allen Bradley product. The GE product is called Quick Panel. However, GE purchased the Quick Panel line from Total Control Products several years ago. I do not recognize the model number ES0601. The part number IC754VSI06MTD is a GE part number for a 6" monochrome Quick Panel HMI. Programs from an Allen Bradley Panel View can not be transferred to a GE Quick Panel. For the new HMI you will need Proficy Machine Edition software available from the same place where you purchased the HMI. To extract the project file from the original HMI, the original programmer must have included a "project recovery file" when he/she programmed it. It is also possible that the original HMI was programmed using a software package called Quick Designer. Your GE distributor should be able to get it for you if necessary. If it was programmed with Quick Designer, the original programmer must have chosen to store the project file on the HMI when he/she downloaded the runtime file.

What model PLC are you going to use? What sensors are available from the machine? What outputs will the PLC be controlling? One printer or three? How does the PLC send commands to the printer? You don't need a program at this stage. First you need to design a control system capable of fulfilling the job requirements.

The coils are bits in the command register. If my memory is correct, for the DM300 bit zero is "Trigger Enable" which must be set and bit 02 is "Trigger".

Russ makes a good point that I missed. VersaMax is hardware. VersaPro is software. In the end it still doesn't matter. Logicmaster can not open a program file created with VersaPro. That is the case whether you are trying to open a file when you are not connected to the PLC or whether you are connected to a PLC and trying to see what is in it. Logicmaster is incompatible with VersaMax hardware. Logicmaster was already obsolete when the VersaMax product was introduced. Logicmster is DOS-based software and has been obsolete since around the year 2000. VersaPro has been obsolete for at least a decade. The current GE programming software is called Proficy Machine Edition. Proficy Machine Edition can open Logicmaster project files and VersaPro project files in addition to Proficy Machine Edition project files. VersaPro can open Logicmaster project files in addition to VersaPro project files, but it cannot open Proficy Machine edition project files. Logicmaster can only open Logicmaster project files. The newer software is backward compatible with projects created using the older software, but the older software is not forward compatible with projects created using the newer software.

If the program in the PLC was written using VersaPro, you will not be able to use Logicmaster to retrieve it from the PLC.

It looks to me like you should be using terminals 1 through 5 on the Moxa unit and not just terminals 1,2 & 5.

Contact your local supplier. The version that programs the 90-30, VersaMax and VersaMax Micro should be less than $1000.

VersaPro is also obsolete software. The current offering is called Proficy Machine Edition. If you want to use the next available register when making changes to an existing program, simply type in %R without any numeric characters. Logicmaster will select the next available %R address. The same technique works for any memory type (%I, %M, %Q, etc). Logicmaster only keeps track of the highest used address for each memory type. Thus, if the existing program uses %R00001 through %R00050 and also %R00100, as far as Logicmaster is concerned the next available address is %R00101, even though %R00051 through %R00099 are also available.

Each rung is executed sequentially. When a variable's value is updated as a result of an instruction on rung 2, the updated value is immediately available at rung 3. What is the full name of the variable at the IN1 node of the ADD_REAL instruction on rung 3? If it is PT4601_INT and that variable is defined as INT, then you may have a problem mixing an INT variable with a REAL instruction. If PT4601_INT is actually a REAL variable then you have a problem with the REAL_TO_INT instruction on rung 2.

You get to the next expansion rack by either the down cursor key or the Page Down key. I'm not sure which. In Logicmaster ALT + K will show you a list of the hot key combinations. ALT + H will get you to context-sensitive help.

If I were you I'd be asking Ferry why they're "upgrading" to a 90-30 and not to an RX3I.

Is "GE Workbench" the same thing as Cimplicity Workbench? I don't recognize the name "DesignerSim". But I haven't been doing much work with Cimplicity lately so it could be something I've never had the occasion to use.

You could accumulate kWh over a one hour period. Also create a buffer of 168 elements. At the conclusion of the hour, push the latest hour's kWh into the buffer and push out the oldest value. The sum of all 168 values in the buffer is the total over the past seven days.

I have it. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send it to you.

There are status words included in the EGD exchange. The values in those words can provide insights into what is or isn't happening.

Make sure Proficy Machine Edition is configured to communicate using the same COM port that your USB/serial converter sets itself up to use.

The problem could be in the cable connecting the two PLCs or it could be in the setup of the COMMREQ instruction in the 90-70 that initiates each exchange of data between them. Please provide details of both.

ALT-H for the help menu. ALT-K for a list of all shortcut key combinations.

It sounds like the output is overridden. Move the cursor to the coil instruction or any of the contact instructions and press F11 to cancel the override. That's most likely how you got it into the override state in the first place. You inadvertently pressed F11 with the cursor on that address.

Horner modules are not specifically listed in the hardware configuration. You enter a generic third party module and set values for the module's parameters as directed in the datasheet for the module that you get at the Horner website (heapg.com).

You will have to configure the HE693STG884 as a "3rd party" module. Download the data sheet from Horner's website (heapg.com) for details of the parameter values.

You will need to identify a communication protocol available to both the PLC and the Keithley unit.The most likely protocol would be Modbus RTU. Many GE PLCs can be either Modbus RTU masters or slaves. If the Keithley can be a Modbus master, all you will need to do in the PLC is set up the port in hardware configuration. You will not need any additional ladder logic to support communications, although you may find it advantageous to group all the data exchanged with the Keithley in contiguous addresses. If the Keithley can only be a Modbus slave, you will need to use COMMREQ instructions in the PLC's ladder logic to control the data exchanges.

TERMF is sufficient for creating a simple megabasic program for the PCM module. If you need to take advantage of all the capabilities of the module you will need PCOP. In fact, you don't even need TERMF. You could use HyperTerminal.

I clicked on the link associated with the text "Windows-based configuration software" on the page I cited. That opened a page for operator interface software. Under "Software Downloads" on that page I clicked "PanelMate Power Pro software". That opened up a form to submit to Eaton, presumably for the download. I didn't follow any further than that so I don't know whether the download is free or the form will turn out to be nothing more than a request for a quotation. Once you have the part number of the PanelMate I'll be able to give you details of the download cable. It will be an RS232 cable to port 1 on the PanelMate. I only have Power Pro software installed on a laptop with a real serial port. I can't give you any guidance on whether or not a USB/serial converter will work.

Panelmate PowerPro software. It looks like you may be able to download it from the Eaton/Cutler Hammer site. For some reason I'm unable to paste anything into this reply box. PanelMate URL.txt