MorphuisOGrady
Member
Hi there,
Firstly I no nothing about Quantum PLCs and very little about Citect.
I have an old Win NT Citect SCADA system failure which I need to replace quickly.
I have the backup and have managed to restore it to Citect 7.2 which I'm told will run on Win 7 PC.
The communications board type in Citect is BOARDX and the IODevice is Modbus.
Without physically seeing this machine (its abroad) I'm guessing its using a standard onboard serial port for communications and not a dedicated comms card.
So what are my options giving I'm inexperienced with both Citect and Quantum PLCs?
Here are my thoughts...
1. Buy a PC with a serial port. Probably hard to find nowadays
2. Buy a PC and a USB to serial adapter
3. Install some sort of Ethernet module on the quantum PLC. - Driver and probably tags have to be reconfigured in CItect.
4. Install some sort of gateway -Serial to Modbus TCP/IP .
Firstly I no nothing about Quantum PLCs and very little about Citect.
I have an old Win NT Citect SCADA system failure which I need to replace quickly.
I have the backup and have managed to restore it to Citect 7.2 which I'm told will run on Win 7 PC.
The communications board type in Citect is BOARDX and the IODevice is Modbus.
Without physically seeing this machine (its abroad) I'm guessing its using a standard onboard serial port for communications and not a dedicated comms card.
So what are my options giving I'm inexperienced with both Citect and Quantum PLCs?
Here are my thoughts...
1. Buy a PC with a serial port. Probably hard to find nowadays
2. Buy a PC and a USB to serial adapter
3. Install some sort of Ethernet module on the quantum PLC. - Driver and probably tags have to be reconfigured in CItect.
4. Install some sort of gateway -Serial to Modbus TCP/IP .