Micrologix communicat to ultra 3000 how to

I want to setup a communication to a servo drive but don't know how to setup the messages to the servo via serial from a micrologix.

What you are suggesting--communicating directly with an Ultra 3000 through the serial port of a Micrologix--is possible but there will be a lot of programming involved to parse the ASCII commands. I'd highly recommend that you consider a protocol converter that can talk to both devices, such as the Red Lion G3.

Some threads you should check out:
http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=22687
http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=60365
http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=6701

I had an inexperienced user take literally months to write his own interface from the MicroLogix 1200 serial port. When I finally agreed to bail him out, it still took me a full week to write and debug it.

By contrast, I built an equivalent application using a MicroLogix 1500 controller 1764-LRP with a DeviceNet scanner 1769-SDN and the DeviceNet version of the Ultra 3000i indexing drive in twelve hours. Those were between 5 PM and 5 AM, but still, it got done.

If you have a small indexing motion controller application involving a MicroLogix controller, look into the new "Kinetix 3" drives. They use Modbus RTU, which the MicroLogix 1100/1200/1400/1500 support natively on the serial port. Scott Martin at North Coast Electric should be able to set up a demo of those drives for you.

A translator device from Red Lion or a device from Quartech (my second choice behind DeviceNet) is another option.

Thanks kolyur! You are correct I will have to utilize ASCII and a converter is much simpler. I was trying to solve an issue with existing machine that wasn't communicating properly. In the end I found something wrong in the communication setup of the servo. Thanks for the help.

Thanks to you both! Your help was very helpful. I am a technician for Hinds-Bock and most of my troubles come from existing/dated designs. Thanks for the advise.