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

Got ten minutes at the blade change and took the old block off the rail, lead and all. Eleven hours of trend since and not one hole, where I'd normall...

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

New block was in before first break and I've had two more holes since, so that's a day gone and a spare I didn't need. No luck at all today. To answe...

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

What's the RPI on those drive connections, and is the timeout multiplier still on the default? If the RPI is slack enough the connection could be sit...

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

Runs in its own duct the whole way, nowhere near the blade. Swapped it for a new lead this morning anyway and moved it to port 6 while I had the door ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 4-20 mA vibration sensor on a pump motor, what threshold do I alarm at

The first real failure sets the number. Keep the log until then.

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-EN2T at 100 percent CPU on its webpage, FactoryTalk View SE clients time out

60 percent on a module nobody's I/O depends on is fine. Deadband anyway.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Power meter kW over Modbus is ten times the clamp meter reading

kWh is a 32 bit with its own exponent. Different register, same game.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Fitted PowerFlex 525s to four conveyor motors, energy bill did not change

The fans are where the 25 percent lives. Trend them first, then decide.

3 weeks ago
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RE: KEPServerEX reads S7-1200 tags as Bad quality, channel shows connected

Green channel, every tag bad. Chased that on a Modbus gateway once.

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

State 8, Friday evening, expired password. Same story every quarter somewhere.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Modbus TCP over LTE, half of twelve wellpad RTUs time out every poll cycle

Two slow ones out of twelve is odd, check the modem firmware on those.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Publish MQTT straight from the S7-1500 with LMQTT, or put an edge gateway in?

If their broker only does plain topics, the gateway does that too.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Ignition Edge MQTT Transmission, ten minute gaps in cloud data after every WAN drop

The cloud ingest was using its own clock, a setting on their side called use message timestamp, off. Turned it on, repeated the antenna test, backfill...

3 weeks ago
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RE: All four OPC DA links to the historian died the same morning after Windows updates

RSLinx came back after Packet Integrity on the packaging PC and a reboot. The compressor server is from 2009 and refused every level, so it's gone beh...

3 weeks ago
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