HMI for outdoors

Roy Matson

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Hi, I have a couple of AB PV600 grey scale displays mounted outdoors in a NEMA 4 enclosure. They work great but unfortunately are almost unreadable in bright sunlight.
Does anyone have a better solution, preferably ethernet.
Thanks in advance
Roy
 
Beijer makes a sunlight readable version of their Exter panels:
http://hmi.beijerelectronics.com/we...AllDocuments/85C83B3A7B58B9D6C12574590043D756

I have used the standard Exter panels outdoors with success. In these installations they have generally been under a small awning so there is a little shade over the unit.

Something to watch out for with almost all HMI's when outdoors is low temperatures. Below freezing is generally not possible without heating the enclosure.

<disclaimer: I work for a Beijer distribtor>
 
Redlion G3 series do an outdoor unit, i have never used it so dont know if its readable in heavy sunlight!
 
Thanks a lot guys, I will check them both out.
BTW does their software have a way of browsing for RSLogix 5000 tags
Are they classified for Class 1 Div 2 location
Regards
Roy
 
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Roy Matson said:
Thanks a lot guys, I will check them both out.
BTW does their software have a way of browsing for RSLogix 5000 tags
Are they classified for Class 1 Div 2 location
Regards
Roy
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Redlion G3 Series

The Indoor Units are UL Listed, but it looks like the Outdoor Units are not?!

You can import your tags as a csv file to the g3 series but i dont think you can browse tags (unless they have added it lately!)

See

http://www.redlion.net/aboutus/news/news2006/nativetagsupportforallenbradleyplcs.html

http://www.redlion.net/Products/HumanMachineInterface/OperatorInterface/G306.html

http://www.redlion.net/Products/Groups/OperatorInterface/G306/Docs/07037.pdf

http://www.redlion.net/Products/Groups/OperatorInterface/G306/Docs/07043.pdf

It also looks like the only outdoor unit is the 6" version.

I'm sure someone from RL will correct any of my mistakes here :)
 
The G310 is an outdoor unit and is suitabler for Class 1 Div 2 areas. UL listed. UV film also available.
I have these inside the cabins on the Sydney Harbour Bridge Cranes and they are very visible. Sun comes straight in the window.
I also have one in a stand to control a wave machine but it is stil not finished. The stand will be out in the open and the G310 should be good.
 
Thanks 504bloke for the reference material.
So I guess that the tags in RSLogix must somehow cross reference to the real memory address.
Thanks BobB for the testimonial.
Roy
 
And as a bonus, the software (Crimson2 - here) is free as are the firmware updates, and redlions tech support is second to none!
 

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