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ollyb
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RE: Two OEM CompactLogix packers both on 192.168.1.x, second one can't join the network

Ask us for the NATR with the machine next time, we do fit them.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Two E-stops and one guard door, safety relay or Compact GuardLogix for a small cell

Went relay. 440R-D22R2, both E-stops and the door on the two channels, monitored reset, two 100S-C09 in series with the NC mirrors in the loop, and bo...

3 weeks ago
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RE: OEM wants TeamViewer on the FactoryTalk View SE PC for remote support, IT says no

Went with an Ewon Cosy on the machine subnet, outbound only, key switch on the panel door wired to its digital input, plant holds the key. Our portal ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1769-IT6 barrel zone thermocouple reads 15 degrees low after the wiring was extended

End user pulled the copper out and ran KX extension back to the 1769-IT6, polarity checked with a lighter on the tip. Zone 3 within 1 degree of the ha...

3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
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RE: TLS3-GD2 guard lock releases a second after Stop while the spindle is still coasting

Changed it. The lock output now waits on a safety task timer started when the STO drops, preset set by the customer's safety engineer comfortably over...

3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
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RE: TwinCAT EtherCAT at 250 us with 30 slaves, cycle time exceeded and motion jitter

Ended up with the NC task at 500 us, PLC at 1 ms, core isolated. Retuned the applicator axis Kv and the customer signed off the registration. Exceed c...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 50 cartoner recipes, UDT array in the 1756-L73 or the HMI recipe manager?

Array of a UDT in the controller. UDT Recipe with your 22 members plus a STRING for the name, Recipes[50], and Recipe_Active of the same UDT that the ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: eWON Cosy 131 online in Talk2M but ping to the S7-1200 behind it times out

Site guy plugged in and set Use router to 192.168.1.250 off my instructions, downloaded it. Ping answers, TIA goes online through the tunnel, support ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: OEM wants TeamViewer on the FactoryTalk View SE PC for remote support, IT says no

Took the outbound idea to their IT and they liked the direction. Two things back. Who controls when the session is open, they don't want it always on,...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1769-IT6 barrel zone thermocouple reads 15 degrees low after the wiring was extended

Partly on me. Our wiring drawing says "T/C extension" and nothing about the wire type, so stores picked a colour and I guess nobody questioned it. Dra...

3 weeks ago
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RE: PanelView Plus 6 refuses the MER from the machine builder, incompatible runtime version

There's your answer, and I've done this to customers myself. A v12 MER will not run on v8 firmware. Runtime files load on equal or newer firmware, nev...

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

I would just generate a new signature and lock it. If the routines match the archive nothing has changed. Half our machines out in the field have lost...

3 weeks ago
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