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RE: Daily production count from a CompactLogix 5069 into Excel, no SCADA on site

Cast to integer in the function node, header row added, three nights clean now. Manager opened it Monday and the weekend was in it. First time. The o...

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

Automatic reset, download, XV101 drops the moment the fill step exits. Overlap's gone off the trend and the OTUs are out of the dose action. So it wa...

3 weeks ago
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RE: TwinCAT 3 EtherCAT slaves drop to SAFEOP, WcState 1 and lost frames climbing

The spare's the same cable type, so you've bought yourself the same problem a few weeks later. Standard EtherCAT cable isn't rated for a cable carrier...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Daily production count from a CompactLogix 5069 into Excel, no SCADA on site

Added the Yesterday tags, that part was ten minutes. Node-RED as a service on the PC, an EtherNet/IP node reads the three tags at 00:30 and writes a l...

3 weeks ago
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RE: S7-1200 ERROR LED flashing after replacing an SM 1223, hardware mismatch slot 2

Changed the module in the config to the relay version this morning, downloaded, ERROR LED off, packer running. Rewired the output commons the way the ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-L61 lost its program after a power outage, BAT LED had been red

Battery in this morning. BAT LED off, OK green, running on the March file. So a flat BA1 from 2016 and an L61 that holds the program in RAM. Forty mi...

3 weeks ago
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RE: TwinCAT 3 EtherCAT slaves drop to SAFEOP, WcState 1 and lost frames climbing

A moving cable and a clean cut at slave 14. That's frame loss on one segment, it isn't the cycle time and it isn't firmware. Go and look at where the ...

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

The exceeds were the machine. The applicator is a tuning question that 250 us was hiding. That cam was tuned at 250 us and it's now following the mast...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Gantry axes on EtherCAT drift apart over a long move, TwinCAT distributed clocks off

Normal on the first cycles, the clocks have to converge before that sync error clears. If it clears in a few seconds and stays clear, leave it alone. ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Daily production count from a CompactLogix 5069 into Excel, no SCADA on site

PC stays on, nobody's logged in after 17:00. Count resets at midnight, there's a rung that zeroes it on the day change. Nothing keeps yesterday's numb...

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

Don't scan. I've never opened that tab, so that's my own default rather than a decision. What do the other two options do?

3 weeks ago
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RE: S7-1200 ERROR LED flashing after replacing an SM 1223, hardware mismatch slot 2

Old one: 6ES7 223-1BL32-0XB0. New one: 6ES7 223-1PL32-0XB0. Both say DI16/DQ16 on the front. Clip's in, checked it with a flashlight. Reseated it aga...

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

Then start at 1 ms and prove it needs less. At 250 us with 30 slaves you're spending a fair chunk of the cycle just getting the frame on the wire, plu...

3 weeks ago
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