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wandak
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RE: TON preset for a 30 day filter timer overflows, what do people use instead

Put the clock version in on Thursday. GSV WALLCLOCKTIME into a 7 element DINT array, the date written to a retentive tag when the operator presses Fil...

2 weeks ago
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RE: TON preset for a 30 day filter timer overflows, what do people use instead

That's the shape I was after. One thing though, this station drops power more often than I'd like, maybe a couple of hours at a time when the co-op ha...

2 weeks ago
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RE: TON preset for a 30 day filter timer overflows, what do people use instead

24.8 days. That explains the five days exactly. So I think that's it for a long TON anywhere, it's a ceiling on the instruction rather than something...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Excel logger lives on one engineer's PC and that PC is on the rebuild list

Not the server room. Small fanless box in or beside the panel, one job on it, writing locally. The day IT does something clever with the network at le...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Case packer count on a 1769-L33ER always runs over the tally, worse on jam days

That is the question. If Wednesday had jams and Tuesday didn't then I reckon there's your 300, because your counter has no idea which way the belt is ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Downtime reasons and OEE on a CompactLogix, or let the historian work it out

Polling is the wrong shape for events. Latch the reason code and a sequence number into a small event buffer in the controller, say 32 deep, and have ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Downtime reasons and OEE on a CompactLogix, or let the historian work it out

That works right up to the first network hiccup, then you've no idea what the machine was doing for ninety seconds and the operator gets a dropdown fo...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Laying tags out on a 1756-L83E now so a per station shift report is possible later

Put a timestamp member in while you are in there. When the link to the report drops for an hour you want to know when the number was true, not when it...

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

192.168.1.x on both ends. Half the remote tickets I get.

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

Three weeks logged. The 60 percent band sits 1.9 to 2.3. Full speed band 3.2 to 3.6. Set a high alarm per band at 1.5 times that band's average, a ra...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Finding compressed air leaks with a CompactLogix instead of a soap bottle

Put a valve on the second zone. Then it's a number too.

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

All three are standard. Permissive: a key switch or a button wired to the router's digital input, so the plant turns access on and off. Scope: the rou...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1734-AENTR over industrial wifi drops 16#0204 a few times an hour

RPI to 100 ms yesterday afternoon. Zero drops overnight, first clean night in a month. The scraper permissive is moving to a hardwired pair through th...

3 weeks ago
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