Third party HMI panels for S7-300/400

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• Mar 25, 2008

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Hi everyone,
I am just wondering if anyone uses third party HMI panels in connection with CPU S7-300/400.
I am looking for something faster than current Siemens Windows CE panels are. (They can fetch changes every 100ms, but the speed of display change is about 500ms).
Moreover new versions of WinCC flexible are more and more hungry for programming HW speed and memory .
I would appreciate if you share your experience.

 

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• Mar 25, 2008

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Try RedLion

 

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• Mar 26, 2008

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Try ESA display panels... www.esatechnology.com

 

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• Mar 26, 2008

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Just to be curious, but why would you need an update speed of less then 500ms?

 

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• Mar 26, 2008

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Xycom are pretty good as long as you stick with the embedded ones and not the Windows based ones.

Magelis and Quickpanel (Schneider&GE respectively) are just repackaged Xycoms.....

 

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• Mar 26, 2008

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I have been using the Red Lions recently. They are inexpensive, very easy to program and provide a lot of options.

 

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• Apr 18, 2008

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thanks

Many thanks to all who have posted a note here. I will give it a try in the future on some project.

 

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• Apr 18, 2008

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Jeebs said:

Just to be curious, but why would you need an update speed of less then 500ms?

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Jeebs, the answer is very easy. I need panel which keeps the pace with short changes in the proces.

 

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• Apr 19, 2008

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You're right that the update speeds of the Siemens panel are rubbish. The other day I tried to make a logo flash two colours when a product type was changed (just as an aesthetic thing). Sometimes you'd see and sometimes you wouldn't due to the rubbish update speed. Its not as though they're cheap either...

(accidentally went into a bit of a rant there..)