soop7667
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I want to link my office PC to a PLC on our Block Plant floor.
I've run into some snags with "The Money Man" in our main office reguarding the cost of a KTX card. Anyhow...I've run 'blue hose' from the Block Macine PLC to the Office, and used a Spare Rack with a Spare 5/04 as an interface in the office. I hooked it all up but in Linx I couldnn't connect to the Machine PLC through the office PLC DF1 port. I used RS Logix and enabled "DF1 Pass thru" in the status file thinking that it would solve my problem....I got bumped offline from the PLC in the office, which i was hooked into via DF1, and an error message came up saying i had to DL from the eeprom or UL the file. I was THINKING that I'd be Downloading to the office PLC to which I was attached, BUT, when I DL'd the logic to the PLC (blank logic - no rungs)it went into my Machine instead and I lost the entire Day's production figures...not to mention all of the past 6 months of tweaking the settings. Thats about when I took the blue hose off and said to hell with it.
I just read a post about PT (Pass Thru) Drivers and my questions are....
What exactly did I do when I enabled DF1 Pass thru and should I leave it enabled or not?
Should I be using a different driver to "see" PLC's on the DH+ instead of the DF1 Driver ?
My Main goal is to be able to use Excel with DDE or OPC to display real time production figures and also play with my RS View32 project.(Animated Block machine)
Thanks in advance
Jon
I've run into some snags with "The Money Man" in our main office reguarding the cost of a KTX card. Anyhow...I've run 'blue hose' from the Block Macine PLC to the Office, and used a Spare Rack with a Spare 5/04 as an interface in the office. I hooked it all up but in Linx I couldnn't connect to the Machine PLC through the office PLC DF1 port. I used RS Logix and enabled "DF1 Pass thru" in the status file thinking that it would solve my problem....I got bumped offline from the PLC in the office, which i was hooked into via DF1, and an error message came up saying i had to DL from the eeprom or UL the file. I was THINKING that I'd be Downloading to the office PLC to which I was attached, BUT, when I DL'd the logic to the PLC (blank logic - no rungs)it went into my Machine instead and I lost the entire Day's production figures...not to mention all of the past 6 months of tweaking the settings. Thats about when I took the blue hose off and said to hell with it.
I just read a post about PT (Pass Thru) Drivers and my questions are....
What exactly did I do when I enabled DF1 Pass thru and should I leave it enabled or not?
Should I be using a different driver to "see" PLC's on the DH+ instead of the DF1 Driver ?
My Main goal is to be able to use Excel with DDE or OPC to display real time production figures and also play with my RS View32 project.(Animated Block machine)
Thanks in advance
Jon