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dang, i guess i'll have to come back to this another time then with another method of communication, thanks for the help

hmm i thought i had got it set up correctly this time but no luck, so i followed your advice and connected pin 1.00 to the RP pin and set up the parameters on the mx2 as follows a001=06 pulse train freq a002=02 so it can be operated by run button for now p003=00 p004=00 i don't need to earth pin L right as its only for analog inputs? heres the small plc code i made to control the frequency, which from what i can tell works fine, i can see the pulse train light on the plc flickering accordingly im sure im missing something simple but i cant see it thanks for the help so far

Ok the start/stop seems easy enough, will the PLS2 or PULS function work for the pulse output? and which pin do i need to send that to on the mx2 inverter  

ah yes i just checked the cd it is lite v4 :/

Ive only just realized Im missing a lot of options for varients of PLC's, i need to be able to access the CJ series, is there some setting i need to change somewhere? im on cx programmer version 9.5, i cant find anything about this thanks  

ah i got it, i was attempting to auto direct connect on cx programmer and not finding it, after fideling with direct connection utility and looking through a few things i eventually tested the confirm network function on the direct connection utility where i finally discovered the plc through the hub option, then went back to cx programmer and auto connected through the hub option and it worked, thanks anyways

hi again every1, ive managed to salvage some parts that have been decommissioned or not used to create a test control box, i currently have a CP1l-EL20 connected to a NB7w tw01b and have an eWON cosy 131 on order for me to play around with, however i recently noticed that the built in cp1l-el20 Ethernet port is FINS only and i am anticipating this causing problems. am i right in thinking that my cp1l will not be able to communicate through my eWON? do i need to get some form of adapter to convert the FINS? or maybe i'm wrong and it will all work. if anyone who knows could enlighten me that would be great, thanks

my laptop ethernet port is a usb to ethernet adapter with everything set to default with auto obtain everything on, this is the first time i am using ethernet as a way of communicating, i have only used usb or serial till this point, the laptop im using hasnt been used for PLC's or much else before so it is probably safe to assume that absolutely everything is set to default

ok cool, i was told by a friend in a similar job it might take a bit of fiddling. on a separate note im having trouble directly connecting to my plc at the moment via ethernet, might be better in a new post but im not having much luck connecting via the auto online function. ive tried using the direct connect utility but that doesnt seemed to have done anything, if you could point me in the right direction for that, that would be great, thanks for the info on ewon tho, im clocking off till monday now :)

hi all, i'm currently trying to shift register some data in the floating point (double word) format, just for an example i,m using a 0-20mA 0-40 bar pressure sensor to gather information from a can filler and want to log the data for lets say the previous 20 cans. i understand how the shift register works and can get it to work with single word just fine, im using floating point to make my life a bit easier by using sleepy wombat's scaling function block, i need decimal points as i will be expecting reading around 4.5 or so bar and expected to be within .2 tolerence this will then have to displayed on a HMI, which i assume will be easy enough

i did take a look at that, it can move an amount of words but only to a fixed data location right? so i could move my doubleword from d120 to d220, but it would not shift upon more entries, i would always be replacing d220 and not shifting from d220-d222-d224 etc

i agree it wouldn't really make a difference, i guess it was either calibration or a mistake otherwise i dunno, thanks anyways

hi everyone, ive recently started working at a company who uses omron PLC's im a bit more familiar with siemens i used in university.   one of my first tasks at work was to go through the current plc programs we have installed, ive noticed going through them that the previous engineer doesnt use the whole resolution of the analog input, i was wandering if this was some sort of practice im not familiar with or if they just have done it their own way. for example the ad041 expansion unit has a resolution of 1/6000, which would be  scale of 0-1770 in hex, however in the programs im looking through this top end hex value is always listed as 1700.   im assuming there some safety precaution or something that i don't know about, thanks for any answers in advance * the image is of the data points being put into the SCL function  

ad041 analog input unit, attatched to a cp1l -m40 plc