ONGOING.... 26 TOPICS "ALMOST" WORTH PINNING

[Ausman]

Hi all,

This Topic will list items that are worth an easy find, are odd things that standout, but are not quite "pinnable" on their own.  If we pin everything that is useful, it will all become one big mess on page 1 (or bigger!).  I suggest that if you want something added to the list, contact myself or another mod to have them edit it into this existing list that I see as having carefully considered updating.  To save space, only links will be shown, not full previews, with the Header or a Description listed before the link. 

Sometimes the link will take you to a particular post within a Topic that is the answer, but a full topic read will never go astray....history is useful.

It is also worth noting that this has not been written in plc talk----hence no item 0.  😉

1. Just a link to the Help Centre, which perhaps many people don't know about.  The link actually goes to the Vision/Samba firmware update troubleshooting page, but you can easily back out of there using links under the Help Center heading to find many other topics about all things Unitronics.     https://support.unitronics.com/index.php?/selfhelp/view-article/visionsamba-firmware-upgrade-troubleshooting
2. HSC resets DW counter after power-cut      http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/6118-hsc-resets-dw-counter-to-after-power-cut/ 
3. Multi Monitor (things disappearing) Issue        http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/5827-multi-monitor-issue/
4. Setting up EX-RC1s   (particularly Joe's explanation at post 9.... 21520)        http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/4165-setting-up-two-ex-rc1/?tab=comments#comment-21520
5. Run Multiple Instances of Visilogic etc and making good use of this ability.     http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/4015-multiple-connection-live-checking-tip/
6. EX-A1 vs EX-A2X Connection cable differences.       http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/58-ex-a1/?do=findComment&comment=26267
7. Trend Disappearing in various scenarios.     http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/5233-v700-trend-disappearing/?do=findComment&comment=22704    
8. Many Screen Elements makes PC do long refresh time.     http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/6590-visilogic-9880-hmi-frustration/?do=findComment&comment=28338
9. Connections suddenly showing "No PLC is currently selected..."      http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/6478-connection-problem/?do=findComment&comment=26158
10. Connection details storage tip related to no. 9.   Store all evb details elsewhere.   http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/5439-hiding-remote-locations-on-your-pc-from-crooks/?do=findComment&comment=21086
11. Great Subroutine advice.     http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/7081-subroutines/     Also have a look at this Rail Power example:  https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/8525-less-than-compare-function-not-powering-coil/?do=findComment&comment=35749
12. Intermediate Calculations Using Same Operands....great explanation from Joe for those who don't know about this.        http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/7207-linearization/?do=findComment&comment=29492
13.  Initialize & Reset might  fix weird things.   http://forum.unitronics.com/topic/7271-initialize-reset-might-fix-weird-things-going-on/   
14.   Explorer gets into a loop on file loading....issue & solution arose during another topic, see the bottom of this post here:  https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/7888-help-please/?do=findComment&comment=33079   
15.   Network connections tip.   https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/8083-set-plc-name-indirect-vector/?do=findComment&comment=33922
16.  Scroll bar disappearing.... M$oft does it again.  https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/8143-missing-vertical-scroll-bar-in-visilogic-9880/?do=findComment&comment=34137  
17.  Using MFs and Implied Decimals explained by Joe T.   https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/8201-change-mf-format-in-hmi/?do=findComment&comment=34370 
18.   Can't get to your mapped drive in Unilogic or Visilogic?    https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/8326-visilogic-unilogic-mapped-drives-fix-worth-pinning/  
19.   Vision etc model not showing in hardware list?  2 topics cover possible fix.   https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/3632-visiologic-ver-9760-build-0-v350-35-tu24/?do=findComment&comment=36536         https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/8757-samba-sm70-j-t38-pto-function/?do=findComment&comment=36880
20.   UDP & TCP Modbus usage useful explanation.   https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/8823-question-about-using-unitronics-plc-as-modbus-tcp-masterslave/?do=findComment&comment=37288
21.   Not a topic link as such, just a post with a zip file of lots of old Visilogic info.  MAKE SURE TO READ THE PAGE'S NOTES.     https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/8958-visilogic-general-info-pdfs/
22.   Useful String Assembly Information.  Direct link to Fernando's post in a topic.   https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/9040-now-i-want-to-convert-string-to-integer/?do=findComment&comment=38358
23.   Visilogic Registration issues.....some versions require registration and there is an offline method.  https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/6612-registering-visilogic/?do=findComment&comment=39719
24.   Modbus Blocking Write commands.  Solution in later Visi versions.  Read entire topic and also #25.  https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/1359-modbus-blocking-write-command/?_fromLogin=1
25.   Further Information on Modbus blocking and a different solution.  https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/11006-modbus-write-protect/?_fromLogin=1
26.   Flyback Diodes and Clamping protection...I thought this was here already.....very important.    https://forum.unitronics.com/topic/2735-flyback-diode/#comment-9669

cheers, Aus      🙃   

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