tschis

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  1. I have set up only one eniw with an SLC 5/04 so I don't want to waste anybody's time or give false hopes, as I am a rookie but this may work. I once did an excel web query to get the data table from a 5/05 into a hidden worksheet and made links to the cells with the data I wanted in another sheet. This was just for viewing however and there are different options for refreshing via time or a macro button. Anyways, maybe if you set one of the web pages on the eniw and did a query to it you could write or find some code to do some time stamping. ????
  2. The manual tells me that the last rack switch is only used for PLC-2. I am going to leave it in the position that the current last rack is in except for the addressing switches. FYI I guess.
  3. Thanks for the reply, that sounds like enough evidence to convince my boss that he just needs to buck up and get me some blue hose. There is a resistor on the last one so I will move that and adjust the switch when I have the opportunity to do the changeover. Thanks again.
  4. AB support told me that I can address it this way and that any two conductor cable may work but they will not debug or support it without the Belden 9463 or equivalent.
  5. Hello, I need to install an additional flex io rack, there is already on in the cabinet but the logical rack is full, it is the end of the line on the blue hose. Can I run my shielded cable from the RIO connector on the existing rack to the new one and assign the new one to any of the logical racks in logix 500 that have space available? I believe I need to be in program mode and just change the G file configuration to match what is installed. Also, what is the difference between the blue hose and any other shielded or unshielded cable? Could I run a comparably sized shielded cable from the top of the cabinet to the bottom where the new rack will be?
  6. I talked to AB and was told that I need to compare the addressing in the PV with the SLC's program and vice versa to talk directly to the I/O in the SLC instead of the scanner. I had already started doing this but hoped for a quicker easier way so if anyone still has one of those that would be pretty cool, otherwise thanks anyways, I have A/C in the office.
  7. Is there anyone out there who has done a RIO to ethernet addressing transfer for a before? I thought about just getting a RIO PV Plus but in order to test from my laptop and use other panels in case of an emergency, it would be nice to use ethernet to communicate. Does the SLC 505 recognize the addressing to the RIO via the ethernet or do I have to use the direct IO addressing in the PV program?
  8. SLC 5/05 passthru

    I was just going to post that it was a 5/04 with an eniw to do the ethernet to dh+ so I guess it would probably be rs232 to dh+, does that make a difference??
  9. I would like to try passthru from RS232 and/or ethernet to a RIO 1400e to upload and from ethernet to DH+ on another PV900. The instructions I have seen are vague and I am not sure that it is possible. Thank you for any suggestions.
  10. net dde

    Thanks for the reply, I have one pretty in depth workbook that has a ton of macros written in VBA so that one may be alot of work to change, I have cut and pasted some stuff and made it work but have minimal VB experience. My company is in the process of deciding if they should standardize the way they get info from PLCs and my plant is kind of stuck in limbo. We had an available license for Gateway so I changed a spreadsheet to use it over the network instead of WinLinx through a phone modem. I thought I would tinker around with getting info with the Gateway to see what options are out there. I had trouble getting the OPC test client working and couldn't find much info so I didn't want to spend much time on it not knowing if we would go that way or not. Is there any detailed instructions on how to setup OPC and/or examples of code?
  11. Hello, I am recieving a 'Can not bind DSDM server' message when I open the DDE Share Manager. I have found a few things that may have told me why this happened but none to help me fix this. Is there any help out there? Thanks. My intentions are to have multiple PCs use excel files to read data from PLC's on our network with Linx Gateway installed on one PC.