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RE: Simultaneous axis movement

Posted By Michael Watkins Mar 10, 2025 12:40:00 PM
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Thank you for the reply. It is a grinder with two different wheels, we want them to reach a point at the same time but the starting point will be different.

Simultaneous axis movement

Posted By Michael Watkins Mar 10, 2025 11:41:00 AM
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If I have two axis, say one is the x direction and one from y. Starting point is different lengths but need to intersect at the same time. What would be the best way to do this? Obviously they would need to move at different speeds. I would assume they would need to be geared together somehow. ...

Thermocouple to 5069-IY4

Posted By Michael Watkins Dec 10, 2024 02:49:00 PM
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I have a customer that we did an upgrade for and went from 12 independent temperature controllers to using compactlogix plc and 5069-IY4 cards. Everything was working fine but now they have had a couple of the thermocouple inputs go negative. They only thing they could do to fix it was to replace the ...

RE: Wondering if there is a better way- Servo Belt Indexing

Posted By Michael Watkins Dec 03, 2024 11:30:00 AM
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Thank you for suggestion, I will try it out.

Wondering if there is a better way- Servo Belt Indexing

Posted By Michael Watkins Dec 02, 2024 10:19:00 AM
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Belt controlled by Servo indexing to a sensor. Using a MAM till sensor is flagged then doing a MAS. Then repeat. Belt goes round in a loop, it stops about 100 times till it has done a complete rotation. There is a sensor that is flagged each time the belt is in position to stop. Problem is at different ...

PID Heater 0n/off control

Posted By Michael Watkins Nov 27, 2024 11:05:00 AM
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Looking for an example program for controlling temperature using a PID but output is digital (on/off) to a SS relay. Thanks for any help on this. Mike

Micro 800 CCW Programming question

Posted By Michael Watkins Jul 10, 2024 08:15:00 AM
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Hi, I have a project in which part of it is I need to control an SMC valve bank over ethernet. I can do this in 5000 but how is it done in CCW? CIP Messaging? Any one have a simular example? Thanks for any help.

RE: Micro1400 to CompactLogix RCP

Posted By Michael Watkins Jun 06, 2024 02:58:00 PM
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Thanks for helping, one futher question- part of the data in the 1400 recipe are 32 timers presets. Is there a way to copy an array into into an array of timers preset values? Thanks

Micro1400 to CompactLogix RCP

Posted By Michael Watkins May 24, 2024 12:14:00 PM
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Is there a coversion for the RCP instruction in a MicroLogix 1400 to a CompactLogix? Thanks for the help.

RE: Kinetix 5500 CompactLogix

Posted By Michael Watkins Jan 31, 2024 03:19:00 PM
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It is being used as an offset location from a saw blade, they will do a tool change from time to time and this will change the physical location from the blade. So the customer asked to be able to modify the postion when homed. Thanks for all the responses. The SSV worked great! No issues. ...

Kinetix 5500 CompactLogix

Posted By Michael Watkins Jan 30, 2024 12:33:00 PM
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Is there a way to change the home position with a tag? So when the servo goes home right now it is set at 8 inches, customer would like to be able to change that value with a tag through the HMI. I can redifne current position with MRP but what about the home position value? Thanks for any assi ...

Converting an Array of SINTs to String

Posted By Michael Watkins Dec 07, 2023 01:40:00 PM
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Any suggestions on how to take an array of SINTs and put this into a string Tag and it having the correct ASCII value? I have tried differnt was of copy commnad but its the 0's after the data in the SINT that is makes it not work. Studio5000 ------------------------------ Michael Watkins ...

ME HMI Web page view

Posted By Michael Watkins Dec 04, 2023 10:09:00 AM
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Hi, I need to display a devices web page on an ME Screen. I have not done this before. No web controls. Thanks for any help you can provide. ------------------------------ Michael Watkins ------------------------------

RE: ME HMI

Posted By Michael Watkins Nov 29, 2023 02:57:00 PM
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Is there another way, already using that for some condition screen control. Need a pop up window to come up on top of any screen that is control by a tag. Siemens has this function, wanted to see if I can do it with ME. ------------------------------ Michael Watkins -------------------------- ...

ME HMI

Posted By Michael Watkins Nov 29, 2023 02:08:00 PM
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Hi, How can you get a Pop-Window (On top window) to come up on any currenlty open screen without using a GoTo Display button but a tag from a PLC? Thanks ------------------------------ Michael Watkins ------------------------------

Siemens to Rockwell question

Posted By Michael Watkins Nov 29, 2023 09:08:00 AM
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Simple HMI question I have a project convert a Siemens platform to Rockwell, on the Siemens HMI they have a numeric input, but you can only enter a value if a enable tag is active otherwise its just displaying a value, no keypad opens when pressed unless the enable tag is active. Is the same type ...

Panelview Plus 7 Recipe

Posted By Michael Watkins Nov 21, 2023 04:01:00 PM
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Is there a way to edit recipes without using FactoryTalk View Software? Customer wants to be able to modify recipes away from the HMI (Excel or something like that), then load back to the HMI. Thanks for any assistance. ------------------------------ Watkins --------------------------- ...

Real Time Counter

Posted By Michael Watkins Nov 15, 2023 12:11:00 PM
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I need a rolling live counter. I need to count how many times a motor has started in the last 24 hours at any given time. Is there an AOI for something like this? Also how do you add up all the elements in an array to a single tag? I think the FAL is the correct way to go but can't figure ...

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