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RE: DOWNLOAD FACTORYTALK VIEW SE VERSION 15/16

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 06, 2026 12:49:00 PM
Found In Egroup: Installation & Activation \ view thread
As there are variations between product in how they apply activations... this answer is specific to FTVSE There are three parts... which you can see from the software portal. If you are currently is support then: you have access to download from the PCDC. you have access to tech support. your ...

RE: DOWNLOAD FACTORYTALK VIEW SE VERSION 15/16

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 04, 2026 09:28:00 PM
Found In Egroup: Installation & Activation \ view thread
ID: QA3920 | Access Levels: Everyone FactoryTalk Activation: How to get missing Product Key? You'll find your serial number displayed in FactoryTalk Activation Manager. You'll also need one of the following: Product Key - included on the certificate you get when you purchased the software. Company ...

RE: Patch Installs

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 03, 2026 08:22:36 AM
Found In Egroup: Installation & Activation \ view thread
The Patch Roll-up takes care of uninstalling the previous patches before it installs the new patches. I like the idea of a "known state". If you ad hoc install patch vs. you apply the patch roll-up. It's much easier to test and support the "know state" that you get with the patch roll-up. FT Update ...

RE: Patch Installs

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 02, 2026 11:51:00 PM
Found In Egroup: Installation & Activation \ view thread
The Patch Roll-Up is installed like a Program.... You see it listed under Programs. In this example, I have Jan 2026 Patch Roll-Up installed and FT Updater says I should install Feb 2026 Patch Roll-Up. Installing Feb will first uninstall Jan and then install Feb. You should reinstall the patch roll-up ...

RE: Generic Ethernet Bridge Module

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 02, 2026 12:18:44 PM
Found In Egroup: Networks \ view thread
Yes, I've seen that before where each slot is a different dataset (array) so the just number them 101, 102, 103. -------------------------------------------

RE: Flying Saw

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 02, 2026 12:04:57 PM
Found In Egroup: Drives, Motion Control & Low Voltage Products \ view thread
@Batman In addition to that a Rotary Knife, can you provide the details for a Flying Shear. -------------------------------------------

RE: Testing Remote I/O

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 02, 2026 11:54:26 AM
Found In Egroup: Automation Control \ view thread
I haven't touch bluehose RIO in a long time but the two things that used for emulation of RIO was a RIO PanelView or a 1756-RIO module. Either one of these devices can emulate 1 or more than one RIO racks, including Block Transfers to each slot location. Beyond verifying you can move zeros and one ...

RE: Generic Ethernet Bridge Module

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 02, 2026 11:26:53 AM
Found In Egroup: Networks \ view thread
Here are the CIP Error codes Regarding your IT blocking... If you can see the Module Info, then IT is not blocking it. The Module Info is only available In Logix Designer while online and your PC is pulling that data out of the Identity Object 0x01 in the target device. If your PC can see the Identity ...

RE: Generic Ethernet Bridge Module

Posted By Philip Hamilton Mar 01, 2026 12:39:30 PM
Found In Egroup: Networks \ view thread
Regarding the IP address seen on General and Port Configuration tabs pictured below: The IP address in the general tab is the IP address in the controller's IO scanlist... The controller will attempt to open an IO connection to that target IP address. The IP address in the Port Configuration is ...

RE: Erratic Module Properties Timeout

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 28, 2026 12:00:00 AM
Found In Egroup: Networks \ view thread
ID: BF29696 | Access Levels: TechConnect Studio 5000 Logix Designer: web-based interface module profiles show a blank screen Seems to be related to the video driver.. Try a different video driver or graphics card? Also could be an outdated Chrome browser? ID: BF14668 | Access Levels: TechConnect ...

RE: Security Runtime FTView ME

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 26, 2026 11:29:07 PM
Found In Egroup: Automation Control \ view thread
ID: QA39210 | Access Levels: TechConnect PlantPAx Process Library versions 4.x & 5.x security setup for FactoryTalk View SE & ME -------------------------------------------

RE: FTView SE ver 15 - Setting up Datalogging using OBDC to SQL Express DB

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 25, 2026 07:20:00 PM
Found In Egroup: Advanced Software \ view thread
I would try the SQL Management Studio to verify the connection syntax and credentials as indicated in the KB and videos below. I typically use the service account, but there are other options as seen in the resources below. ID: QA61499 | Access Levels: TechConnect FactoryTalk DB Connection Config Utility ...

RE: Plant Pax & 2715P-T19CD-K (HMI)

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 24, 2026 12:12:37 PM
Found In Egroup: Advanced Software \ view thread
Check for a duplex mismatch... If you see 100MB HD, then you probably have a duplex mismatch. If you see FCS errors, or other media errors... you might have a duplex mismatch. An ethernet cable connects two things e.g. PV to Stratix or Stratix to PLC. Both ends of a give cable must have the same duplex... ...

RE: Plant Pax & 2715P-T19CD-K (HMI)

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 24, 2026 11:45:40 AM
Found In Egroup: Advanced Software \ view thread
Could be the PLC is overloaded? Try putting the PLC in program mode where it's not running the user code, thus is has lots of resources to respond to the HMI. If the HMI works fine while the PLC is in program mode then I'd look at the PLC... remove the continuous task, slow down the logic, allow more ...

RE: Micro850 Modbus Mapping - a register cannot be read

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 22, 2026 09:38:00 AM
Found In Egroup: Automation Control \ view thread
Look at the driver that is R/W the Modbus register e.g. Kepware and as a test... set the block size to 1. Imagine reading 10 Modbus registers.. one at a time... Ten read request, ten packets on the wire... ten response.. ten more packets on the wire. It is better to just make one read request to ...

RE: Micro850 Modbus Mapping - a register cannot be read

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 21, 2026 11:35:03 PM
Found In Egroup: Automation Control \ view thread
Check the block size on the driver... Most driver read a block of 16 registers... If the first block is 400027... 400042. The second block is 400043... 400058 and most of those registers were not defined in the Micro850 and would return an error. -------------------------------------------

RE: PV Plus 7 performance version won't shut down

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 21, 2026 09:19:00 AM
Found In Egroup: Automation Control \ view thread
Try a factory reset... see video -------------------------------------------

RE: Flex 5000 Power Calculations

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 19, 2026 09:56:00 PM
Found In Egroup: Automation Control \ view thread
MOD is used to power the circuit boards (inside 5069 modules) 5069-IB16 80mA max. (backplane power, BP) 5069-OB16 100mA max (backplane power, BP) SA is the sensor actuator (field devices outside the 5069 modules). 5069-IB16 if the field device is dry contact, then the only load is the ch ...

RE: POOR QUALITY LABEL ON FACTORYTALK VIEW SE V.11 CLIENT

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 18, 2026 06:51:00 PM
Found In Egroup: Advanced Software \ view thread
Kepware supports pass-through. Tags are defined in Kepware where the tags point to memory locations in the controller and then you can use the Kepware tags in your data client application. The pass-through features allows the data client to specify a memory location in leu of a tag. As long as the memory ...

RE: POOR QUALITY LABEL ON FACTORYTALK VIEW SE V.11 CLIENT

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 18, 2026 05:46:07 PM
Found In Egroup: Advanced Software \ view thread
Go back to the HMI tag and screenshot the FEA32 tag. Specifically, look at the item syntax for the Data Source -------------------------------------------