Rsnetworx Or .....

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There is another way to configure a Control Net without RSnetwox??

[Ken Roach 194]

Not for Rockwell PLC's. There may be some configuration packages for other ControlNet users that I'm not aware of, but for ControlLogix and PLC-5C15 you need RSNetworx for ControlNet. You don't need configuration software at all if you're not using scheduled messaging; I've seen some systems where ControlNet was used exclusively for unscheduled data transfer and those just hooked up right out of the box. This morning I happen to be working with a beta copy of RSLogix 5000 version 12 and it has a great new feature; it can send the pending ControlNet connections for a 1756-CNB to RSNetworx offline and RSNetworx will calculate a schedule and let me know the bandwidth usage of my configuration. It used to be you didn't know for certain that a particular ControlNet configuration would work until you hooked it up and measured the ControlNet bandwidth usage. Edited 21 Jan 2003 by Ken Roach