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jcasey
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RE: TON preset for a 30 day filter timer overflows, what do people use instead

> .PRE is holding a negative number DINT. Signed 32 bit, tops out at 2147483647, and your preset is in milliseconds, so the ceiling on any TON is ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Excel logger lives on one engineer's PC and that PC is on the rebuild list

Went with the box in the end. Small industrial PC in the MCC room, Kepware moved onto it with the config exported into our git repo, a scheduled task ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Excel logger lives on one engineer's PC and that PC is on the rebuild list

Network is fine to be fair, it's a flat plant network and the packing lines sit on the same switch stack as the office. What worries me more is that n...

2 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-EN2T drops to 16#0204 a few times a shift since the module swap

That was the whole of it. The module I pulled off the filler on Friday went back in the crib, and the night fitter took it straight back out the same ...

2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
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RE: Daily part count out of the PLC into Excel every morning, no SCADA here

Nothing wrong with a boring answer that stays running.

2 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-EN2T drops to 16#0204 a few times a shift since the module swap

Mirrored the port and sat through the 06:00 clean with Wireshark running. No storm. The link is quiet right up to the second the modules go, so that o...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Excel sheet off a CompactLogix stopped updating, RSLinx topic still shows good

> the link letting go quietly It does that. I've had Classic drop a topic after a Windows update restarted the service and the cells keep the last...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Daily part count out of the PLC into Excel every morning, no SCADA here

> does the PLC write the file itself Depends entirely on what the PLC is, and you haven't said. A 1769 CompactLogix can't write a CSV anywhere you...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Filler PowerFlex 525 held its last command when the switch died, others faulted

That's it. Four drives read Fault on C143 and the capper read Hold Last. Set it back to Fault off the keypad, pulled the patch lead with the line empt...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Filler PowerFlex 525 held its last command when the switch died, others faulted

RPI is 20ms on all five, multiplier untouched, so we're talking 80ms before it gives up. Two minutes is not that. And the other four faulted off the ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Filler PowerFlex 525 held its last command when the switch died, others faulted

Unmanaged 8 port thing that came with the machine, no diagnostics on it to speak of. It's been replaced with a Stratix 2000 now. Drive fault queue is...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-EN2T drops to 16#0204 a few times a shift since the module swap

Stratix 5700, the eight port one, uplinked to the core in the MCC room. One VLAN for the lot of it. I went back over the times against the shift log ...

3 weeks ago
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