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Topics: 9 / Replies: 24
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RE: Told to back up every PLC on site, three brands of rack and no list anywhere

All four done and written up. Two ACD files off the CompactLogix racks, a full station upload off the 315 with STEP 7 V5.6 including the hardware conf...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Told to back up every PLC on site, three brands of rack and no list anywhere

Found a U2DHP in the store, and RSLogix 500 is on the old desktop in the office along with STEP 7. So I can get at all four now. One thing I'm not su...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Told to back up every PLC on site, three brands of rack and no list anywhere

There is a card in it, yes, a little yellow one. The grey ones I looked up and 1747-L542 is a SLC 5 removed link No Ethernet port that I can see, ju...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Told to back up every PLC on site, three brands of rack and no list anywhere

Went round with a phone this morning. Panel 3 leftmost module says 1769-L33ER, and the one next to it is 1769-IQ16. Panel 7 is 6ES7 315-2EH14-0AB0, w...

2 weeks ago
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RE: New FactoryTalk View ME app runs on the laptop, no live values on the PanelView Plus

Sorry, basic one. What is a shortcut in FactoryTalk actually pointing at?

3 weeks ago
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RE: Modbus TCP gateway drops four seconds at a time since a remote I/O block was swapped

Sorry if this is obvious, but does the gateway write down which block it lost, or just that a poll timed out?

3 weeks ago
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RE: Panel shop used a standard red 22mm pushbutton as the E-stop, auditor flagged it

Replaced it this morning with an 800FM mushroom E-stop operator, same 22 mm cutout, twist to release, on a yellow legend plate, with a two NC positive...

3 weeks ago
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RE: CompactLogix solenoid output chatters, rung is true in one place and false in another

Ok. So two OTE rungs on the same output, MainRoutine rung 14 and Reject_Old rung 3, and the second one kept turning it back off. Asked the controls g...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Micro820 start/stop rung, motor starts then drops out the instant I let go of Start

Added the branch this morning. Start, let go, keeps running. Stop drops it. All three of us on the rig had the same rung, so it was never the button. ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: S7-1200 ET 200SP "Not reachable" after renaming the device in TIA V17

Assigned the name from Online access this morning. The IM went green after a few seconds and the IP changed to 192.168.2.11 on its own, I didn't touch...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Panel shop used a standard red 22mm pushbutton as the E-stop, auditor flagged it

So the relay latching isn't the same as the button latching, because they fail differently? And positive opening means forced apart, standard means sp...

3 weeks ago
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RE: CRC errors on one Stratix 5700 port, patch lead runs through the PowerFlex 755 panel

Why does the shield help when the noise is on the motor leads and not on the Ethernet pair? I'd have thought the twist cancels it.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Studio 5000 go online shows upload or download, offline file doesn't match

Uploaded to a new file, ran the compare. 14 rungs different, all in a new routine called R_MetalDet plus two tags, and one rung in the main routine ca...

3 weeks ago
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RE: New ET 200SP station, IM 155-6 red ERROR, every module shows missing

Found it in the IM box under the leaflet, exactly where you said. Clipped it on, power cycle, IM green, all six modules green, conveyor section runnin...

3 weeks ago
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