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scott_m
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Topics: 4 / Replies: 43
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RE: 1756-EN2T at 100 percent CPU on its webpage, FactoryTalk View SE clients time out

Deadband on the historian. And 1 s on 1,400 tags isn't monitoring, it's trending.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Ignition historian grew 40 GB in a month from 300 tags, every analog logs every scan

Remote sites on a 10 s class, and all 300 tags now have a deadband and a minimum time. Growth is about 60 MB a day, from 1.3 GB. Disk went from 90% to...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Motor current into a CompactLogix via CTs for predictive maintenance, is it worth it

1 s scan, 30 s average into the historian, and one report a month per motor at the same product code. Small deadband or it fills the disk with noise.

3 weeks ago
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RE: PanelView Plus 7 on the cartoner went slow the day Ignition was connected to the L33ER

The 6,000 unused tags are still polling at 2 s, that's 3,000 reads a second for nothing. Delete them. Export the tag folder, prune it in a spreadsheet...

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

That's why one number fails. 3.4 at full speed is already the next ISO band and it's a healthy pump. Log it to the historian at 1 min with the speed r...

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

History store and forward on, buffer at a million messages, and the box says that's fine on disk. pulled the antenna for five minutes as a test. Data ...

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

Packet Integrity set on the historian box, collector restarted. Both Kepware links came straight back, good quality. RSLinx Classic and the compressor...

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

Constant torque load at full speed. The drive hands the motor the same 60 Hz the line did, minus a couple of percent lost in the drive, so if anything...

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

9 ms in bursts on a bench CPU settles it for me. The controller runs the machine. A broker on the far side of a WAN isn't its problem. Switch the OPC ...

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

State 8 is a wrong password. Ask whoever runs the domain when fttm_svc's password expired, my money is on Friday evening, the policy rolled over and n...

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

36 requests at 300 to 900 ms round trip is 11 to 32 s of waiting, into a 5 s cycle. Nothing to do with antennas. Every cycle the queue is already behi...

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

Every register out by exactly ten is scaling, not word order. Word order gives you the garbage you already saw. Which meter is it, and does the regist...

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

1000 ms scan class, publish on change, maybe 200 changes a second on a busy minute. The local historian has every sample through the outage, I trended...

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

All remote DCOM, yes. The System log on the historian box, and on the one Kepware box I checked, both have a run of DistributedCOM 10036 entries from ...

3 weeks ago
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