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

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 21, 2026 09:19:00 AM
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Try a factory reset... see video -------------------------------------------

RE: Flex 5000 Power Calculations

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 19, 2026 09:56:00 PM
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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 06:50:56 PM
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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
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Go back to the HMI tag and screenshot the FEA32 tag. Specifically, look at the item syntax for the Data Source -------------------------------------------

RE: FactoryTalk View SE - Large Utility Scale BESS SCADA System

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 18, 2026 03:38:27 PM
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Previously you mentioned 61,850 tags (in the data server(s)). The data server will attempt to satisfy the data client request. What are you doing with the tags? Alarms? Datalog? What is the polling rate? How many tags? Tags per second? Do you have 40,000 digital alarms and 10,000 analog alarms where ...

RE: PlantPAx 5.20

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 16, 2026 05:10:00 PM
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PDBC Connect your Analog Input to Inp_PV, Inp_PVSrcQ. Connect the Communications status to Inp_PVBad. Out_Raise & Out_Lower is the Fwd/Rev command on your motor instruction. PMTR Configure it for reversing Connect the PDBC.Out_Raise & PDBC.Out_Lower to command PCmnd_Start1 & PCmnd_Start2 ...

RE: PlantPAx 5.20

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 16, 2026 02:02:00 PM
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Position Proportional (POSP) no position feedback, using timing for position Deadband Controller (PDBC) Compares target position to actual position... -------------------------------------------

RE: FTHSE 8.0 - Historian Server - Unable to Retrieve Archive List, All points are Stale.

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 16, 2026 11:38:54 AM
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check out this YouTube video OSIsoft: Basic PI Data Archive Security Troubleshooting- Check Common Errors & User Authentication -------------------------------------------

RE: Migration of Legacy Memory alarms tags from RSVIEW 32 to FACTORY TALK SE V15

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 16, 2026 11:32:16 AM
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Create the following: Derived Tag folder "MyDerivedTest" MyDerivedTag = system\second Event Tag folder "MyEventTest" Expression system\second Action MyEventTag = system\minute Issue the following HMI commands: DerivedOn MyDerivedTest 'Command to start evaluating the ...

RE: Prosoft PLX31-EIP-MBS4 with L62 msg instruction

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 14, 2026 09:00:00 PM
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The theoretical polling cycle is 3.646 seconds. Increasing the baud rate will help, but the most significant factor is the target device delay (turn around time). The baud rate has no impact on the target device delay. Currently your timeout is 100ms. The 11.5 ms response + 10 ms target delay = 21.5 ...

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

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 12, 2026 04:35:00 PM
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Try replacing FEA32 with a direct reference to your data server item (PLC!AMONIO3) You don't need to convert all the HMI tags to direct reference, just go to the object and change this one -------------------------------------------

RE: OT Cybersecurity Guidelines for Rockwell‑Based Automation Systems

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 12, 2026 04:28:47 PM
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This pdf from 2019 is old and not comprehensive, but in just 13 pages it'll get you started in the right direction. Proces-WP024 -------------------------------------------

RE: FactoryTalk View SE - Large Utility Scale BESS SCADA System

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 12, 2026 04:18:15 PM
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The FactoryTalk View SE distributed is very scalable because additional services can be deployed to provide: more capacity: e.g. add more data servers, or add more alarm servers high availability: active/standby services... failover to the standby segmentation: create area model... each section/area ...

RE: Migration of Legacy Memory alarms tags from RSVIEW 32 to FACTORY TALK SE V15

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 12, 2026 02:33:11 PM
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The HMI Alarm tags must be converted to FactoryTalk Alarm & Events because HMI Alarms were depreciated starting in v11. This means v10 was the last release where the HMI tags have the alarm checkbox. Here is the UI for FTAE. Each alarm has a name and each alarm needs to evaluate the input tag. ...

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

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 10, 2026 07:17:24 PM
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FEA32 appears to be the HMI tag name that points to your OPC server which has an the OPC Item PLC!AMONIO3 Please try a direct reference to the OPC Server item, (PLC!AMONIO3) thus by-passing the HMI tag name. Is there an error in the FT Diagnostics saying that tag is bad? ----------------------- ...

RE: Studio 5000 Version 36 PID Instruction

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 10, 2026 11:51:15 AM
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This is typical for PID.. notice the PID_TImer.DN and the Compute for the PID.UPD -------------------------------------------

RE: Prosoft PLX31-EIP-MBS4 with L62 msg instruction

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 10, 2026 11:47:26 AM
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Talk to your local distributor regarding Legacy software. Logix 5000 Legacy provides an activation for users who are required to work in current versions of Studio 5000 as well as versions dating back to V20.04 and below. -------------------------------------------

RE: Studio 5000 Version 36 PID Instruction

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 09, 2026 11:53:00 PM
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Daniel, Slow down the execution of the PID in the L81E to match the execution in the L55. If you just downloaded the L55 to the L81E then the logic is identical, but the execution could be much faster than your process. Imagine if your analog input update rate is 500ms and your PID is executing ...

RE: Individual Upgrade of Master Alarm SCADA from FTView SE v5 (XP) to Latest Version

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 06, 2026 10:21:25 PM
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Three issues: Moving from 32-bit OS to 64-bit OS Migrating HMI Tags from the 32-bit WATCOM DB to a SQL DB. Migrating Legacy HMI to Alarms to FactoryTalk A&E I keep a Win 7 32-bit OS with FactoryTalk View SE v6.10. I can open an older project e.g. v5.0 and it not only converts the HMI to v6.10 ...

RE: Impact of Upgrading FactoryTalk View SE and Windows XP SCADA System on IntelliCENTER Integration

Posted By Philip Hamilton Feb 05, 2026 04:48:00 PM
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v, I would suggest upgrading IntelliCenter software from v2 to v6 by following QA10245. That will get you two things: the latest software and support ID: QA10245 | Access Levels: Everyone IntelliCENTER Software Upgrades ID: IN4273 | Access Levels: Everyone Steps for upgrading IntelliCENTER software ...