AB Micro 870

[BobLfoot 301]

This post is directed at @TimWilborne and any other Micro 800 Family gurus out there.

I potentially have a pair of Micro 870's coming on a new machine.

The last time I "played" with Micros it was the Micro 850 and paid through the nose to get it to message data between it and a CompactLogix.

This was revision 8 of CCW and now we are up to 13 I saw.

Has Rockwell improved the connectivity of the Micro 800 to the rest of the Logix Family in the last three or four years?

If not I may be forced to have the vendor switch to CompactLogix.

[TimWilborne 108]

The Micro800 has come a LONG way in the last few years.  I have some videos setting up the communications but I'd guess you have that part down.  It is still messaging instructions, so no Ethernet I/O but I have several of them communicating with Controllogix with no issues.  Also, version 20 is out now (they skipped from 13 to 20).  I have downloaded it but haven't played with it yet.  I would urge you to make sure they are running version 13 so that you have the Logix theme, it makes it more like Studio 5000.