We have just replaced an old Insight 5400 Camera and the firmware revision has changed from 3.2 to 12.1. The new camera has been set up and the job file installed but it will not connect to the PLC. I suspect that the problem is that the old camera was added to the PLC project as a generic ethernet device but the new version needs to be added using the Cognex AOP.
The data is written from the camera to the PLC using a WriteEIP command and triggered by a message instruction in the PLC. The input and output assemblies for the generic ethernet device were set at 33 DINTs however we are only reading 25 DINTs of data.
Does anybody know whether I can get the new camera to work if I replace the generic ethernet device with the AOP and set the data size to 32 DINTs. I logged this with Cognex tech support last week but have not yet had any reply and we are desperate to get this working. I cannot just try it and see as the system is in production adn I do not want to lose the data from another three cameras which are on the same system.
The data is written from the camera to the PLC using a WriteEIP command and triggered by a message instruction in the PLC. The input and output assemblies for the generic ethernet device were set at 33 DINTs however we are only reading 25 DINTs of data.
Does anybody know whether I can get the new camera to work if I replace the generic ethernet device with the AOP and set the data size to 32 DINTs. I logged this with Cognex tech support last week but have not yet had any reply and we are desperate to get this working. I cannot just try it and see as the system is in production adn I do not want to lose the data from another three cameras which are on the same system.