RSLinx question

hello every one. The night shift electrician was trying to use the laptop to trouble shoot one of our plc's and couldnt connect and accidently deleted the DH+ driver connection in RSLinx. I tried to add it again but all i got was a blue screen of death and my laptop restarted, maybe im using the wrong driver. There's PLC5's and SLC 500's on the DH+ connection. I'm using a PCMK card with the 1784-PCM5/B cord plugged into the DH+ network and i tried to add a new driver in the configure driver setup. I chose the "1784-KT/KTX(D)PKTX(D)/PCMK for DH+/DH 485 devices" driver. Is this the wrong driver, if so what driver should i be using. thanks!!

It is the proper type driver, however, at configuration time, you will have to assign it an unique DH+ node number (Station Number) and the network's configured baud rate! (the DH+ Linx driver will carry a DH+ network Node Number since it is part of the "blue hose" daisy chain.

dmargineau said:

It is the proper type driver, however, at configuration time, you will have to assign it an unique DH+ node number and the network's configured baud rate! (the DH+ Linx driver will carry a DH+ network Node Number since it is part of the "blue hose" daisy chain.

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ok so under device type i put in PCMK?
under station number is where i choose a Node numer?
and i'd imagine the baude rate is 57.6K.

I'm guessing i have to choose a node number that isn't already being occupied?

Should be something like this.... you may have to change a station number

Did you get the blue screen once you started the driver?

You are using the correct driver for the PCMK, but I suspect it was configured wrong. Once the driver is added and the configuration window is open you will find a dropdown labeled "Value". You should select PCMK here. If you pick PKTX(D) and say OK, you will get a blue screen. I think this is because that particular device uses the PCI (or ISA maybe?) bus of a desktop, since this doesn't exist in your laptop, it crashes.

It's pretty unfortunate that this bug still exists. I would treat this as a critical bug that must be fixed on the next release. Crash Linx, but Windows? For shame. Undoing once it was done was a bit of a pain too.

edit: Apparently this bug doesn't exist in 3.51. I tried it for fun.

Ya i didnt realize i had the wrong numbers entered and yes i got the blue screen of death when i started the driver. All i have to do is choose the station Number, which im unsure of what to choose. I'm going through the DH+ PLC programs to see what Node numbers have been taken.

edit - I got it back up and running. thank you guys very much!