Hi,
We have a 15 year old installation with 6 lines of 7 flex I/O adapters hanging off dual redundant PLC 5's. We've never had any major issues apart from the odd card failure until now. We're now starting to get various items of plant faulting because the PLC code is showing an output firing but it's not reaching the field item via flex I/O. A reset of the supply on the adapter for the particular I/O module cures the issue, there's no need to cycle power on the particular card. All the BNC connections look to be sound. I don't think it's PLC related because we have 6 identical lines and a couple of them are showing issues. As with any intermittent fault it's a process of elimination. We've cleaned all the card pins and bases as we though it may be an issue with H2S attack on the connections (sewerage plant). We've only just discovered that an adapter reset does the trick so were considering a change out of all 7 adapters next.
Anyone experienced similar?
Thanks
Jim
We have a 15 year old installation with 6 lines of 7 flex I/O adapters hanging off dual redundant PLC 5's. We've never had any major issues apart from the odd card failure until now. We're now starting to get various items of plant faulting because the PLC code is showing an output firing but it's not reaching the field item via flex I/O. A reset of the supply on the adapter for the particular I/O module cures the issue, there's no need to cycle power on the particular card. All the BNC connections look to be sound. I don't think it's PLC related because we have 6 identical lines and a couple of them are showing issues. As with any intermittent fault it's a process of elimination. We've cleaned all the card pins and bases as we though it may be an issue with H2S attack on the connections (sewerage plant). We've only just discovered that an adapter reset does the trick so were considering a change out of all 7 adapters next.
Anyone experienced similar?
Thanks
Jim