Janatuine Posted September 20, 2015 Report Share Posted September 20, 2015 Hello I have a problem with thermocouple sensors, I get value of 32767 for seven of my inputs and 11460 for one of my input. Do you have any Ideas of what can i do about it? How can I have proper temp values for my PLC? I'm intending to get temperature trends and numeric variables for my HMI. What I have allready done: - disconnected all my sensors and have a short wires connected in every channel - changed the io-atc8 module's internal jumpers to B selection - changed hw-configuration for all input channels to K-type and variables from MI100-107 PLC: Visilogic 1040 Modules: EX-A1 - expansion adapter IO-ATC8 - 8-channel analog input module Sensors: Thermocouple K-type Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexUT Posted September 20, 2015 Report Share Posted September 20, 2015 Hi, There is no problem to use TC K type (or any other type) withg IO-ATC8. You have to set DIP switches inside into right position. You have to add IO-ATC8 to PLC Hardware Configuration and configure Inputs as TC K. Then connect TC with a right polarity to IO-ATC8 terminals. Resulting temperature in 0.1 C will be in linked MIs. *27.9 C will be equivalent to 279 in linked MI. Next is a link to related document. http://www.unitronics.com/Downloads/Support/Technical%20Library/IO%20expansion%20modules/IO%20Expansions/IO-ATC8.PDF I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted September 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2015 "You have to set DIP switches inside into right position." If you mean by dip-switches a jumpers that are mentioned in manual, so yes I have checked these jumpers they are all at B. "You have to add IO-ATC8 to PLC Hardware Configuration and configure Inputs as TC K. Then connect TC with a right polarity to IO-ATC8 terminals." The configuration should be as you mentioned. Now I have short wires connected to sensor terminals, but i have had also thermocouple connected and i tried to change polarity but it didn't have any effect. With short wires, shouldn't it show a module inner temperature. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walkerok Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 I am reading what you have said and one piece does not make sense to me. You say you have short wires connected. What does that mean? If you are saying that you have a single wire shorting (for example) T0+ to T0- then this will never work. You can make a home made thermocouple out of any thermocouple wire set by stripping and twising the positive and negative ends together on one end and then correctly connecting the other end to the "T" terminals. (The wires can not touch anywhere exect the end you twist together or it will not work correctly) The wire with the red insulation on it goes to "T-" and the other color (color depends on thermocouple wire type, K type is yellow) goes to "T+". The wire in your case must be K type thermocouple wire and any other wire types will not work. Good Luck Keith PS: In your first post you said that all inputs are maxed out and one is different. Are these numbers the same all of the time........Paying attention to the one that reads 11460 even if nothing is connected to the input in question on the IO-ATC8. If the numbers do not change then you are not communicating between your PLC and the EX-A2X module. When communications is lost the numbers in the MI get fixed in place wherever they were last. Test this by forcing a value into one of the MIs you used to map the thermocouple inputs .................. If you can change the value of the MI you are not communicating .............. If you can not change the value from what is there already then you are communicating. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted September 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Thank you for your answers, I don't have any K-type cable's only one K-type sensor. My main goal is test everything in my workshop and then go to assembly it in the final destination, where i will connect the thermocouples. I am assuming that with these short wires I should get ambient temperature, not the channels maximum reading that I now do have. The one channel that I told is giving value 11460 is floating, so the value changes a little bit. Here is one post from moderator Joe T, according to this the shorted channel should give ambient temperature, the post is from this thread: http://forum.unitronics.com/index.php?/topic/1908-io-atc8-problem/?hl=thermocouple " The IO-ATC8 card is not isolated, and noise from the system can cause very odd behavior. The first thing to do is disconnect all the thermocouples from the card and replace each one with a short jumper (I use a cut off paperclip) across the thermocouple terminals. You should read ambient temperature on every channel. If you don't, there is something wrong with the hardware or the configuration. If you do read ambient, re-connect the thermocouples one at a time until the problem shows itself. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 Okay, I started to suspect everything, -So I placed io-snapin module in the back of my V1040 PLC and tested one analog voltage input with 1,5 voltage battery and it worked like it should. -Then I changed my io-atc modules first two analog inputs to voltage mode with two jumpers and connected the 1,5V battery in its terminals and no success. -After this I tried to change EX-A1 module to a another one and nothing changed -Then I changed PLC to a Vision 120, and still couldn't get anything else than maximum, from the channels. So do you have any suggestions how can I troubleshoot the io-atc module Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP 2023 Joe Tauser Posted September 29, 2015 MVP 2023 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 The jumper trick works for testing. You mentioned in your last post that you have an EX-A1 module, instead of an EX-A2X module. Have you tried the newer module? You may be running into an O/S issue. Do the communication lights come on on both the expansion modules? Do the out of range lights come on? Joe T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted September 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 This might be the problem, I don't have EX-A2X module, does it have any restrictions with io-atc8. I mean if I have older io-atc8 module and new EX-A2X, should they be combatible or is there any restrictions related to io-atc8 versions and EX-A2X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted September 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 And yes the communication light goes on in both EX-A1 modules, the Run light goes on at the io-atc8. And I recently tried to test PT4-module but its run light only flashed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP 2023 Joe Tauser Posted September 30, 2015 MVP 2023 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 If the communication light comes on it should work. Just for grins, could you attach your program? Joe T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted October 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Can you open my project file from here http://forum.unitronics.com/index.php?/files/file/44-io-atc8/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP 2023 Joe Tauser Posted October 1, 2015 MVP 2023 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 I don't think you uploaded the right file. I was able to download the file and it's got the V1040 with an E5B on the back and an IO-PT4 module on expansion. I want to look at your program that had the IO-ATC8 on it. Joe T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted October 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Sorry, it wasn't a right file but this is, thank you for your time. http://forum.unitronics.com/index.php?/files/file/45-juho-salminen/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I don't think you uploaded the right file. I was able to download the file and it's got the V1040 with an E5B on the back and an IO-PT4 module on expansion. I want to look at your program that had the IO-ATC8 on it. Joe T. Did you find anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walkerok Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 I have looked at your file. You are scaling values into the exact same MI locations that you have designated for the thermocouples on the ATC8 module in your hardware setup. Don't do this. The thermocouples do not need any scalling and the values directly off of MIs 200-207. Delete the scaling blocks and look at it again. The information in the MIs 200-207 should be read with one decimal point implied so for example a number of 506 in MI 200 reads 50.6 degrees C based on how you have your hardware programmed in Visilogic. Thanks Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janatuine Posted October 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Sorry my mistake, I did like you advised for a start, but then I started to suspect everything and that's why I added these linear functions. The Idea was that the MI:s are then used once in a program, I could also try overight the MI's but I couldn't. When I sent the program to you I changed the MI-numbers back to original, but forgot to delete the linear function's. So this wasn't the solution for me, I hope there is some misstake as simple as that in my project, but I cannot figure it out. I cannot understand, because It should be simple to get value from my expansion modules to a my HMI. Maybe this is still some kind of version problem. The PLC/HMI is unused and not so old, but my expansion modules might be very old, IO-ATC8 is V3.00, but at EX-A1 and V1040 doesn't have any version numbers. But then again V1040 it seems to communicate with V1040. Only the reading is allways maximum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAB Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 I ran into a situation - I have my Type K thermocouple input feeding directly into the PV value in my PID Config function block. The system was running fine and the output was firing at 80% for a particular set point. One of the thermocouples in my system failed in the middle of a cycle and the thermocouple read 32767 (out of range). At that point, the PID output locked to 100% and started heating up the system rapidly. This seems counter-intuitive of what actually should have happened as if the thermocouple value is much higher than the set point, you would think that the output % should go to zero. I did not make a note of the PID status at that time, but I believe from the definitions it should have been +8 (Integral Wind Down). Shouldn't the PID block catch the out-of-range thermocouple value and disable the output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP 2023 Joe Tauser Posted June 12, 2017 MVP 2023 Report Share Posted June 12, 2017 Yes, it should have turned it off but upscale burn is not built into the PID block. It may be something in how you have it configured - can you post your code? Joe T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephpotris Posted November 4, 2019 Report Share Posted November 4, 2019 customer had issues with the loss of 3 of the 4 tc channels. we tried downloading new updated program from version 5.2.3 to version 9.5. only one tc channel shows close to correct the other show out of range so i suspect the first tc input is also not correct, but i do not get out of range alarm. is there something in the software version that is causing this issue machine has been running since 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP 2023 Joe Tauser Posted November 5, 2019 MVP 2023 Report Share Posted November 5, 2019 I haven't had any software issues with the ATC8. It works very well. If it's a system that's been running and the jumpers inside the module are properly set then try disconnecting the thermocouples and putting a jumper across each TC input - this should read ambient temperature. If this doesn't work try replacing the module. Your customer may have had a spike hit the module that damaged it. Joe T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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