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jcasey
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3 weeks ago
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RE: 1769-L33ER watchdog fault, type 6 code 1, after adding an ST WHILE loop

Product probably had a value at home. Bounded loop, either way.

3 weeks ago
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RE: GuardLogix safety signature missing after a standard online edit, nobody touched safety

Ran Compare against the commissioning ACD, still on V33. Safety task identical, only the standard timer preset differs. Generated a new signature, loc...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-L73 major fault T06:C01 task watchdog expired after adding a routine

Went with the running sum. Add new, subtract oldest, divide once, and the array is now a ring buffer with an index. T_Weigh max scan time is 4.6ms wit...

3 weeks ago
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RE: FactoryTalk Transaction Manager stopped writing to SQL Server, cache file at 2 GB

IT had deleted and recreated the account rather than resetting it, so the SQL login existed with no user in the database. DBA mapped it back with data...

3 weeks ago
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RE: PanelView Plus 7 setpoints snap back to 50 within a second of typing them in

Right. A rung with no conditions runs every scan, so every 10ms or so that MOV puts 50 straight back. The panel wins for one scan and then loses. Two...

3 weeks ago
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RE: SINAMICS G120 on S7-1500 telegram 1, r0052 ready to switch on but never runs

Wrote 047E for a second at startup and then 047F on the run command. Drive went to operation enabled, motor turned, speed followed the setpoint. Ran i...

3 weeks ago
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RE: PIDE output stuck at 100 percent for minutes after steam came back

> Isn't the error negative then? Pretty sure it is, but the PIDE's CV was allowed to climb to 100% while the valve only ever saw 60%. It has 40% t...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Logix SFC step goes inactive but the valve OTE stays on into the next step

Set it to Automatic reset. On the last scan of a step that's going inactive, Logix runs the action once more as a postscan, OTEs go off and timers res...

3 weeks ago
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RE: FactoryTalk Transaction Manager stopped writing to SQL Server, cache file at 2 GB

Password had expired Friday 18:40, IT confirmed it. Reset it, updated the connector, started the configuration. Login errors stopped. Cache file isn'...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-L73 major fault T06:C01 task watchdog expired after adding a routine

> Max Scan Time 23.4ms with the routine in, 4.1ms without. Continuous task max is 38ms. So yes, it blows straight past 20. finn, yes, and if the p...

3 weeks ago
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RE: GuardLogix safety signature missing after a standard online edit, nobody touched safety

> Was the safety task locked when the contractor went online, or only signed? Signed, but I now think not locked. Our commissioning notes say lock...

3 weeks ago
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