Micro820 to External RS-232 Display

[Chez1 0]

Hello, 

I am working on a project to connect a PLC (Micro820 by Allen Bradley) to a simple RS-232 alphanumeric OLED display. I am not too familiar with structured text language, but I have worked with micro-controllers that use similar high-level languages (mostly C-based). 

My question is: is it possible to use connected components workbench to program my Micro820 to output ASCII commands to an off-the-shelf RS-232 alphanumeric display? Are there libraries that make life easier to do this? 

I welcome any recommendations to related reference material or command tutorials, thanks!

[Joe E. 160]

Have you browsed through their sample code library?

http://search.rockwellautomation.com/search?q=Micro800&filter=0&getfields=*&btnG=Search&client=samplecode&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=samplecode&ulang=en&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&entqrm=2&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&ud=1&exclude_apps=1&site=sample_code&num=20

In case that link doesn't work, go to www.ab.com, click Products -> Programmable Controllers -> Micro & Nano Control Systems -> Micro820 Controllers -> Resources -> Sample Code Library.

[Chez1 0]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the advice. I've searched through the sample code library, the examples seem more helpful for intermediate users that are comfortable with ladder logic. I'm searching for a how to crawl guide before I can follow the how to walk one...

 

I'm using functional block diagrams for my program and I have been unsuccessful at finding for a simple "hello world"-style walkthrough example for the micro800 series. I just need to understand basics of the connected components workbench quirks such as how to write to outputs or relays (digital/analog), how to detect inputs...and of course writing data to the Tx port of the controller. I haven't been able to find much on the sample code library helpful in order to understand how to do this...

 

If anyone has any other resources that are more beginner-friendly I'd really appreciate it.

[Joe E. 160]

I've only used CCW a few times, only once with PLCs and that was a very old version.  Hopefully someone else with experience with these will chime in.