harry998

Nailed it Thanks for the time anyway guess i just needed to vent!! taking a while to get my head around the jump to siemens but slowly getting there!!

Hi guys, Ive used omron and mitsubishi plc's for year and just starting to learn some basic siemens s7 (specifically 300 and 1200) before i go on a training course............is it me or is it incredulously over complicated? I am using tia portal v11 (very nice as far as industrial software goes) but even the simplest of tasks seems to be near enough impossible, currently i am trying increment a register everytime an input closes. Cant find any reference to an increment instruction but an add instruction will do.......... errrm any combination of anything add results in red squiggles and wrong data type no matter what data type i select Ive tried adding constants, db's,mw's nothing works :'-( Please help before i cry i just want to take a db add one to it and put the result back in the original db surely theres an easy way to add numbers? Ironically getting the web server to work was really easy and fun what a weird world siemens is lol And yes i have siemens huge automating with s7-300 book on my lap but its just not helping

Hi all, Im currently working with some e series hmi's and the beijer manual isnt the best in the world! I have an analogue numeric value the user inputs to set a timer and a touch button that starts the process. I can set a limit on the value so the operator cant input a value that is too low but when the hmi boots up the time setting defaults to 0. Is there anyway to link the 2 functions so pressing the start button with a low value in the timer does not start the process but displays an error message? Also can anyone explain how the process for making macros works? Thanks Harry