Simon

No worries Perry. It gave us a chance to test out the new forum a bit more, as it was not possible to move topics on the old forum.

Cara, Well the larger size is the main benefit, either to fit more items on the screen, or make the controls bigger for gloved hands, etc. Other wish list items: nice thick glass and rigid bezel. at least 800x600 pixel resolution. more than 9 colours for 3D screen objects ability to set it up as a remote screen to another Unitronics PLC (like a PLC-based version of Remote Access - requiring no specific programming). Possibly have a special version with lower cost "hobbled" hardware to support this (eg, no snap or expansion I/O port, less memory, etc, so it can't be used as a stand-alone PLC).

Weee.... just had 30 seconds of fun searching for 3-letter words.

Hello Emil, Hmm... looks like it does say that in the help. Someone must have put it there after I looked . Maybe put it on a new line or in bold, just for the real idiots?

In debugging some odd behaviour of the "Long Int" function in u90Ladder, I found that the use of constants as operands is a no-no. Even though SB82 is set prior to the function, if a constant is used as one of the operands, the result is only a 16-bit value. So, you must use MI values even if the value isn't gouing to change, and make sure that two MIs per value are allocated, even if the upper MI is zero. It would be handly if this could be fixed, so a 16-bit constant was automatically padded with zeros to become a 32-bit value; but knowing the workaround is OK.

Hello Perry, I think Joe is referring to the timers in Visilogic, since this is in fact the Visilogic forum. The M91 series PLCs (and u90Ladder software) have a much simpler configuration. EDIT: this thread has now been moved to the u90 Ladder forum.

Hi Joe, I thik that is becuase they are unmoderated posts. Some gremlins appear to be dwelling in the moderator settings.

I guess this has been asked internally, but is there any chance the old forum posts can be transferred to the new forum as a locked archive section?

It has been a couple of months for cleaning up unfinished business. Old repairs have been completed, non-working demos restored to life, papers filed, notebooks purged and so on. My desk is now a streamlined surface of effiicient productivity. Just the perfect time to start a new forum and blog.I am looking forward to new level of interaction and a place to ramble about stuff without getting in anyone's way. Hopefully some of my ramblings might even be useful.