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Panel view plus 7 chartex ActiveX

Posted By Sol Sep 06, 2024 12:06:00 AM
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Hi folks, after using the Chart control ActiveX and finding the long delays when switching hmi displays while this control is displayed, I watched a video on the newer ChartEX control where the connection is per-pen rather than per chart. I'm using ftview me 12.0 and wonder if anyone can tell me the ...

RE: unconnected MSG via L83E - path error 0041

Posted By Sol Aug 13, 2024 12:26:00 AM
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It was not accepting THIS and I had to manually fix the _EWEB_path tag to $01xxxxx etc after checking what it had been automatically set to in the first example. This re-established the normal behaviour, as in the first PLC. No idea how it became changed on importing the routine, but now back to where ...

unconnected MSG via L83E - path error 0041

Posted By Sol Aug 01, 2024 07:34:00 AM
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Hi all, I'm using the RA example code to send data to an Ethernet connected printer, using unconnected MSG over TCP/IP. On the first PLC - a 1756-L83E I built my own code around the example rungs which themselves set up create_sock_MSG, connect_MSG, write_data_MSG and delete_socket_MSG etc etc it ...

RE: Dec to Hex to SINT Char

Posted By Sol May 01, 2024 08:39:00 AM
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Thanks both of you, I realise now I was over thinking it - just push the decimal value to the SINT array pointer where you want it to be, and it gets sent as an ASCII byte value regardless of whether it was a decimal or not, doh. You don't know, until you know, right! I really appreciate the clear ...

Dec to Hex to SINT Char

Posted By Sol Apr 30, 2024 07:09:00 AM
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Hi all, I create an array of hex byte char values in a string which of course fills the SINT array, such as $EB$00$04$00 and then convert another value in decimal to a hex string, lets say 7F, then I need to move that value to the next location in the SINT array so the whole string reads $EB$00$04$00$7F ...

FactoryTalk Metrics update

Posted By Sol Jan 11, 2023 05:40:00 AM
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Hi, I have FT Metrics comprising of RSBizware v11.50 and ReportExpert 3.2.00 along with SQL 2012 64 bit SP4. I want to update Metrics to V13.00 but it is asking me to uninstall V11.50 first (ReportExpert and RSBizware are of course installed separately but for clarity I refer to them as FT Metrics) ...

RE: example for socket communication

Posted By Sol Jun 07, 2022 09:15:00 AM
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The easiest way is to fit a ProSoft MODBUS card to your CLX backplane and use that to handle the comms. ProSoft configuration tool is free, and lets you define the client device IP address and the registers you want to read from, or write to. It can handle 600 read registers and 1000 write registers. ...

RE: Micro800 Series 830 Error

Posted By Sol Jun 07, 2022 09:09:00 AM
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Have you tried using Ethernet to connect, and having RSLinx running then using BOOTP to find and configure the IP address of the 830 first? It can also be configured from an SD card with a file on it called ConfigMeFirst.txt (details are online) I always found USB to be unreliable for various reasons ...

RE: Supply chain issues

Posted By Sol May 09, 2022 08:31:00 AM
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The global supply shortage of silicon due to Covid, Chinese lockdowns, ramped up EV manufacturing, it all has an impact on what even Rockwell can get their hands on. One manufacturing company I know, needed a small I2C chip and a PIC Micro-C of some sort, they found out that Bosch washing machines already ...

RE: Supply chain issues

Posted By Sol May 09, 2022 04:45:00 AM
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We are a large product manufacturer who use Rockwell parts in our own machinery, I am on a 31 week lead time for a Control Logix PLC and analogue I/O in the UK, direct from Rockwell via Routeco. But also hear from German colleagues that Siemens is not much better. ------------------------------ Zion ...

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 25, 2022 10:31:00 AM
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I will do, the printer is offline but when I get the machine back on I'll try all of the above. The one in post #24 was PLC to EWEB.​ ------------------------------ Zion ------------------------------

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 25, 2022 05:31:00 AM
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Here is a packet sent by PuTTy in RAW mode, to which the printer would respond (example sent to eweb in the mode used by the printer with no CR but just to see how the PuTTy packet differs) ------------------------------ Zion ------------------------------

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 25, 2022 05:29:00 AM
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Here is the packet sent from the PLC, captured in Wireshark, you can see I sent the CR as $r ------------------------------ Zion ------------------------------

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 24, 2022 12:01:00 PM
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Thanks Derek. So that's where I'm at, using prebuilt code from RA that works perfectly to a TCP server app (eweb from RA is such a tool) and both PuTTy and the PLC can send messages to it, working perfectly. Using UDP, or TCP, all good. The weird thing is, the Videojet printer responds to PuTTy in ...

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 24, 2022 11:05:00 AM
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Hi Derek, thank you for taking the time to respond with such a comprehensive reply. I'll have a look into the method and see what I can do with it. This does seem as robust as possible when dealing with older ascii devices. The code I've put together now works to the Rockwell eweb app, in TCP or ...

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 19, 2022 03:14:00 AM
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Yes, I had slipped when inputting the IP address so it stopped working all together but when I found that typo, it started working again but not reliably. Often I would get extended error 0044 which is not in the sockets documentation. Searching that error on the portal led me to a technote on specifying ...

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 18, 2022 10:10:00 AM
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Quick update for anyone else following this topic, Question Why am I getting the following error codes 16#00f or 16#0000_0044 when making a Socket Message using CompactLogix or ControlLogix Controller? 5580 Controllers the path should be of the format $1F$00$00$00 for the local ...

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 10, 2022 03:10:00 AM
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One more question, if I want to terminate the string with a carriage return, how do I form that at the end of a string to be stored and sent? I know the char hex would be 0D or decimal 13 but how does Studio 5000 expect that to look - 0x0D or $0D etc? EDIT: found the answer here: Logix ...

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 09, 2022 08:11:00 AM
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I bow to your God-like intuition - that was about to be my next question!! ------------------------------ Zion ------------------------------

RE: Sending an ASCII string from control logix

Posted By Sol Mar 09, 2022 06:59:00 AM
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Hi and thank you so much, I searched a lot but never came across these. The printer is Ethernet connected and in fact doesn't even have a serial port but uses an old serial protocol - only Telnet works in RAW mode, but I struggled to find examples of how to do this from the L83 for example - I will try ...