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Gabriel Franco

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  1. 28 minutes ago, Fotonic said:

    So if I need to add a pop-up window on every motor on a synoptic screen I'll have to place all the custom controls on screen and associate tags for animation/logic.

    Correct.

    28 minutes ago, Fotonic said:

    In this case, to avoid an over crowded HMI screen in the Unilogic editor what's the best strategy?
    Place all the pop-ups on a dedicated layer as suggested by @Joe Tauser to show/hide on necessity while editing the regular HMI elements?

    I place all the controls stacked on top of each other. By pressing the motor image (or the button or whatever you use to pop-up the control), reset all visibility tags and set the desired one.

     

     

  2. I designed this Custom Control to control reversible motor. It has motor name, modes (O, P, M) , fwd start, rev start, alarm messages, alarm reset, interlocks status, motor status, close button.

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    Every part is attached to a tag (part of a struct defined to control a motor). e.g,  up button:

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    Then, add the custom control to the screen (in this step, you cannot modify its size), set the specific motor tag (e.g. input conveyor #1)  and use a tag visibility to show the control. Set that tag when pressing the device you want to control.

     

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  3. If the manufacturer offers EthernetIP, then you don´t need those ladder functions, just a few steps to configure the PLC as Ethernet/IP scanner importing the EDS of the device.  It will create the structures and IO tags required to comunicate to/from the valve controller.

    Take a look to the examples that can be downloaded from https://downloads.unitronicsplc.com/Sites/plc/Unilogic/UniLogic_Examples.zip

     

     

     

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  4. It is not very difficult to connect to the PLC and download the program to it (from Unitronics' perspective, download is from the PC to the PLC). You must have a USB mini B cable or serial cable and a USB-RS232 converter. But downloading the program doen´t load values to the parameters, as Flex mentioned. Parameters are saved in a separate file (txt or bop file) only if someone did it intentionally.

  5. According to the Alicat manual, "The device setpoint should be sent as a 32-bit IEEE floating point value. Setpoint values must be sent together in a Write Multiple Registers command. Any writes to only one half of the setpoint value will cause an error. Setpoint is ignored on devices without a controller".

     

    Are you fulfilling this requirement?

     

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