We are in the process of upgrading (by force) our wired system to a wireless system. We have numerous pump stations and tanks throughout the city that we interact with.
We have converted over all of our pumpstations that use CompactLogix.
All of our tanks use a Micrologix 1500 though (thus no ethernet port). We have successfully connected with a 1761-NET-ENI as well as swapping one of the 1500's out with a ML1100.
I then found this post:
http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=77776
and wondered if that could be a more economical solution.
We have about 40 sites total so paying $1000 per site to install the 1761-NET-ENI + cable is not something we would like to do, same with swapping out for the ML1100's.
The only thing we use the ML1500 is gathering the tank level with the analog input card and passing it to the CompactLogix at the pump station. So if we could add the ML1500's on the network we would just pass that value to the IFix software as an analog input then perform an analog output to the pump station.
Thank you
We have converted over all of our pumpstations that use CompactLogix.
All of our tanks use a Micrologix 1500 though (thus no ethernet port). We have successfully connected with a 1761-NET-ENI as well as swapping one of the 1500's out with a ML1100.
I then found this post:
http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=77776
and wondered if that could be a more economical solution.
We have about 40 sites total so paying $1000 per site to install the 1761-NET-ENI + cable is not something we would like to do, same with swapping out for the ML1100's.
The only thing we use the ML1500 is gathering the tank level with the analog input card and passing it to the CompactLogix at the pump station. So if we could add the ML1500's on the network we would just pass that value to the IFix software as an analog input then perform an analog output to the pump station.
Thank you