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RE: Minimum FT PC Spec's

Posted By GLaDOS Dec 04, 2023 02:53:23 PM
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Hi Caskey, Short answer, probably an i5 and 4GB of RAM. Long answer, I generally never go with just the bare minimum specs. It would be good to know what type of factorytalk application your PC's are being used for. ME station, SE station/network, or as clients for a Network distributed application. ...

RE: FactoryTalk Logix Echo CompactLogix Support

Posted By GLaDOS Dec 04, 2023 09:25:42 AM
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Fuzzy Logic, Thanks for the update, that is exciting to hear. 👏👏👏👍 ------------------------------ If you answer my questions there will be cake. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Sort by Alphabetical order in User-Defined data type

Posted By GLaDOS Dec 01, 2023 03:07:04 PM
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Hi Doogey, I assume you are talking about creating or editing UDT's and sorting the members alphabetically. There is a trick you can use to do so utilizing excel. I will show you how to do it through some images, but first I should mention I don't see the point in doing this as you can already sort ...

RE: 2D Array of Timers

Posted By GLaDOS Dec 01, 2023 01:55:00 PM
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Hi Gilles, I can think of two ways I would perform this search. One, write a FOR loop in structured text to search the array through an incremented index. I won't go into detail on how to do this as there are so many examples of performing a search with a FOR loop all over the internet. Two, using ...

Studio 5000 v36 and FactoryTalk View v14 Release

Posted By GLaDOS Dec 01, 2023 12:55:00 PM
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Hello all, Just thought I'd mention that Studio 5000 v36 and FactoryTalk View Studio v14 were released yesterday. Studio 5000 release notes: Studio 5000 FactoryTalk View Studio release notes: FTView Things I noticed that are most interesting (to me) from the release notes, Studio 5000 v36 ...

RE: Version 6 .mer file, cannot restore to .apa....HELP!!

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 22, 2023 11:35:14 AM
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LaFitte, Well... I knew that was a possibility. You can add me as a contact if you want extra help with your problem. ------------------------------ If you answer my questions there will be cake. ------------------------------

RE: Version 6 .mer file, cannot restore to .apa....HELP!!

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 22, 2023 10:27:00 AM
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LaFitte, The short answer is no, you cannot restore the .mer file to the full development application. There is a knowledgebase article that goes over a method to recover some of the project from an unconvertable .mer file. ID: QA611, FactoryTalk View ME: Recovering project from the MER file version ...

RE: CPU load 1756-L82E

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 20, 2023 08:58:41 AM
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Philip, Thanks, I'll try that WALLCLOCK comparison suggestion. It would be interesting to see how that normally varies and how I can effect the scan time. I read through chapter 4 of the publication you referenced, and I did notice right away on page 31 in the "Decide When to Use Tasks, Programs, ...

RE: CPU load 1756-L82E

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 17, 2023 02:37:22 PM
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Philip, Thank you for your detailed responses. I am curious about a few things if you have time. In your first example of what not to do, was this in firmware pre-V16? Shouldn't the fixed 1 ms time slice for background tasks still provide the time they needed for class 3 comms? Or is the lack of ...

RE: CPU load 1756-L82E

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 17, 2023 10:30:00 AM
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Philip, I was already aware that the general recommendation was to delete the continuous task and replace it with periodic tasks, but is it safe to say that continuous tasks should only be used for non-time sensitive logic? The best example I have found of that is sending data to an HMI. I have also ...

RE: Notification / Alert / Message Functionality

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 16, 2023 10:29:39 AM
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Philip, Thank you for your response. I'll admit I haven't really used the Events feature of the FTAE server much, but I have filtered by severity and alarm class to achieve a similar effect. I do like using the FTAE graphic command although I've never used it for operator response. I usually use ...

RE: Notification / Alert / Message Functionality

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 16, 2023 10:04:08 AM
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Hey AutomateSHANE, Thanks for the input. Seeing your response makes me notice the terminology may be more vague than I realized. The meaning of the terms alert, notification, alarm, and fault clearly vary from person to person. You are using "Alert" as the highest importance notification while I was ...

Notification / Alert / Message Functionality

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 15, 2023 03:32:00 PM
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Hello all, I'm curious how people who have designed control systems on this forum have handled alerts or notifications functionality in their systems. I am trying to make a distinction here between alarms and alerts. Where alarms tell the operator their attention is needed when something is wrong and ...

RE: Real Time Counter

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 15, 2023 01:32:00 PM
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Watkins, I'm not aware of a publicly available AOI for a rolling counter. However, I think a simple solution is to have a DINT[24] array and use a counter to count the number of restarts each hour, and then move that value into the array while dumping the oldest value. The sum of the values in the ...

RE: FTView ME new PanelView Plus7 Global Connections

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 10, 2023 01:37:00 PM
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rdoliveira, The tags without the "Remote" prefix are written to the PLC, and the tags with the "Remote" prefix are read from the PLC. The "Remote Date and Time" tag is the trigger for updating the HMI clock. When the "Remote Date and Time" tag changes from a zero to a non-zero value, the HMI internal ...

RE: FTView ME v13 PanelView Plus 7 life bit

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 09, 2023 02:21:01 PM
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Yep, that's it. ------------------------------ If you answer my questions there will be cake. ------------------------------

RE: FTView ME v13 PanelView Plus 7 life bit

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 09, 2023 01:59:00 PM
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rdoliveria, In a previous post it was suggested by Philip to write the HMI time to a PLC variable, and when the PLC variable stops changing you know you've lost communication. PLC Communication Failure Alarm in ME ------------------------------ If you answer my questions there will be cake. -- ...

FactoryTalk Logix Echo CompactLogix Support

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 09, 2023 09:06:00 AM
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Hello all, I'm curious if there is any idea / timeline of when FactoryTalk Logix Echo will support the CompactLogix line. I know it was said 2 years ago during the initial release that support for CompactLogix controllers was planned. Any news? 👀 ------------------------------ If you answer ...

RE: [Studio 5000] Predefined Data Types detail Documentation

Posted By GLaDOS Nov 07, 2023 02:08:22 PM
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Romain, I'm not aware of any single document that goes through the purpose of each UDT and it's members. The predefined UDT's are typically associated with predefined AOI's. The usefulness of a UDT is really only in organization. So it would be better to understand the AOI instruction and these are ...

1796-L18ER-BB1B, Digital Input Configuration: Enable Change of State

Posted By GLaDOS Sep 11, 2023 09:26:00 AM
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Hello all, Can anyone confirm for me how the input configuration "Enable Change of State" works. See image below as to what I'm talking about. I want to use the inputs checked in the above image to trigger an event task for totalizing pulses inputs from some flow meters, and I want to know if checking ...