Ausman

Not promoting someone else, but do you know these things exist? Don't use protocol as such, and simply mirror what is wanted from each end. Other species are available, but they are rare. Available: goggles TCW122B-RR Supposedly being updated....have been saying that for ages...I've been waiting....waiting...waiti 😴 : https://relaypros.com/Relay/Relay/CAT_RELAY4_MirX_ETHERNET cheers, Aus

Twitter asks what I'm doing. Facebook asks what I'm thinking. Google asks where I am. The internet has turned into my mother. 🕵️‍♀️

Further to Joe's request, Are you sure about this? Can you hook the 1210 in again to check? cheers, Aus

Jungle, it may not help your exact issue, but have a look at Joe's detailed post on how to set EX-RC1s up in the link below. Although it is for Visilogic, it might be of assistance in resolving your issues. Some other areas....... Are all of the components updated to the latest firmware where possible? All power and earth lines done correctly? Locations of I/Os match in physical layout and in the program? cheers, Aus http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/4165-setting-up-two-ex-rc1/?do=findComment&comment=21520

Did you do the install using Right click/Run as Administrator? If not, uninstall completely and start again. After re-installation, check that the visilogic.exe is set to run as Admin as well. cheers, Aus

Sadly not my joke....... My wife asked me why I was whispering in the house. "Because Mark Zuckerberg's listening," I whispered. She laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri laughed. 🙈 cheers, Aus

If you don't want to do it Flex's way (which will still involve some maths), although it is in Visilogic this example shows the principle of how to do it very easily. At 120rpm max you don't need anything fancy like high speed inputs or timers. I'm not a Unistream user but feel sure that setting up your own 1.25ms "interrupt count" should be very easy. You may be able to go even smaller for greater accuracy...I don't know. cheers, Aus http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/4599-totalizer-to-gpm/?do=findComment&comment=17077

de003, FYI, LOTS of things with "usb" connections are just a tiny variation on an item that used to have a 232 port, but now have an onboard usb converter fitted to make them more "use friendly" to people who expect connections to be simple. The trouble is that most of those items will install drivers that completely stuff up current drivers that are working perfectly. It is a bit of a minefield and something to be aware of every time you plug something industrial looking into your puter. System restore etc is a must before doing anything. Some of Unitronics info is squirreled away, but most is there if you look hard enough. All by easily navigating a screen. Be thankful you're not looking through large paper books like us oldies had to, to learn stuff. 📖 👓 I have a few bookcases full of such stuff. cheers, Aus

Have a look at this. Cheers, Aus http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/5271-totalize-flow/?do=findComment&comment=20226

John, what's wrong with tape? Jeesh...even way in the future Sigourney still uses it to attach various gizmos onto her "kill all the aliens" weapon! I always laughed at that. 👽 Yes...screws are good. cheers, Aus

What are these exactly? They are the likely cause of issues if not correct/good enough. cheers, Aus

Hmmmm.....in Visi, ALL my favourites are saved in the evb file. Hence my solution to the "security" issue here, which is also in the "not quite pinned" list: http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/5439-hiding-remote-locations-on-your-pc-from-crooks/?tab=comments#comment-21086 It would be nice if only the relevant details were saved on each project. After all, if you've got it open, you probably want to use it! I don't use the key of my car to just hop in and sit there making vroom vroom noises. Well......sometimes I do. 🏎️ cheers, Aus

Or change your thinking and use a count of your own making. Cascading timers can work, but can also be an endless source of problems. The beauty of counts is that you can manipulate things much easier on complex progressions. "Hmmmm....run that process.....from here to there". Timers do make part of this sort of thing easier, but if your timer initiation/ending goes astray you can easily get headaches. To get around the issue of using counts, you can do "invisible to the user" maths to make the count adjustments automatically allow for any changes in the total progression. cheers, Aus

Don't forget the tip on holding the snap-in in place a lot better by using some carefully cut and applied "gaffer" tape.

As it is working, I am with Kratmel. I've had power supplies make very odd noises, but I then don't trust the unit and replace it. However.... Ensure that the installers didn't let any swarf etc into the unit. I've had many plcs stuffed by "experts" relocating equipment and drilling/cutting holes willy nilly without any covers over all the control gear at all, with subsequent failure. "Aus, it doesn't work anymore!" "That's because you are a pack of dills". I used to work with a PLC brand that came with paper protection all over the vents, explaining about removal after ALL works were finished. Great idea. Time to remove a cover to see what is really going on, me thinks. 😨 cheers, Aus

It is confusing berndp, isn't it? Across different PLC species you get varied responses to this sort of instruction. @Cara Bereck Levy Maybe better wording in the descriptions would help? cheers, Aus.

Douglas Adams was so clever he probably knew this. Any book(s) of his you have to read at least 3 or more times to get all the linked things.

John, in case you haven't found them yet, the info on these is squirreled away in the tech library under Accessories/Routers. There were some minor spec errors on first release which may have been fixed by now, but I haven't looked. cheers, Aus https://unitronicsplc.com/support-technical-library/

Pierre, in doing this you may like to try multiple instances of Visilogic which makes it so much easier. cheers, Aus http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/4015-multiple-connection-live-checking-tip/

balazs, in your screenshot your item #2 (linked to TB1) is not 1000, it is 1500. Does changing it to 1000 make a difference? Also, have you actually got some values in the plc for it to work with? cheers, Aus

Cara, knowing it is a token loop explains a lot. The entire topic of UniCan and best practices has lots of info in Help, but for the learner it's a bit hard to tie it all together. I use Structs to assemble/disassemble the vectors for UniCan sends and have them in series, which is not covered as being possible. Same for the UniCan Sends. The help files imply that you can only do 16 integers in a single send, and that's true...but you can do lots of sends in one rung. I wrote about this here: http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/4084-unican-sends-512-mis-per-scanhow/?hl=unican The other thing that is not well explained and actually needs more work on it in Visilogic is the source/destination naming issue in Structs. Unless you keep careful track of this via something like Excel, it gets very confusing. I touched on this here: http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/6527-with-vectors-why-didnt-i-think-of-this-ages-ago/ For me I also seem to have buffer issues that the system doesn't seem to allow for. "Everything is done" says the system.....but unless you allow a few more scans for the buffers to fully clear you'll run into overload problems. I am going to try again on some layouts...as discussed above. To me the issue is that it needs some example layouts in the help files that show the entire principle for all types of different operations. The sample projects show the basics, but don't show how much you can enlarge on what is being shown. I know this is a learning curve, but I don't like stumbling along in the dark finding things out by trial and error. I well remember spending days banging away on this when I first started doing it, having to do lots of testbench trials. And you have to work with at least 2 plcs to do it properly, which adds to the annoyance as you have the 2 lots of download each time you try something. cheers, Aus

If Flex's link is not enough to get you going, have a look at Topic 4 in this pinned list, where Joe explains it well. cheers, Aus http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/6229-ongoing-13-topics-almost-worth-pinning/?_fromLogin=1

A quick look at this and for starters I'd fix all your Input Status Determine inputs......they are all the same......Input 0. As for your comms woes, are you using an MJ20-RS? If not, you should be. It is possible that your 485 sends are being interpreted on the 232 input of an MJ20-PRG, but it cannot send on 485. I suggest you have a good read of the various Help files.....Com Port Mode: RS232/RS485 etc You should initially be just trying out what you want to do on just one I/O, testing this thoroughly until it all works correctly and you understand it completely, then progressively add in other additions you want, testing along the way. cheers, Aus

On top of Flex's suggestion, did you install Visilogic using right click/run as Administrator? Also have the visilogic.exe in Program Files (x86) Unitronics UnitronicsVisilogic_C Main set to run as admin in compatibility settings? If you have done this and still have the issue, how are you connecting to the 350? If using a USB to serial adapter, some of the cheap no-name types don't work properly. cheers, Aus

@Simon attention grabber for above, in case you aren't looking too hard.