cbanzet
Lifetime Supporting Member
I just wanted to warn everyone that, according to Rockwell, standard PanelViews, 2711-WXYZ, can't communicate to an 80 series ControlLogix processor using unscheduled ControlNet messaging.
I learned this the hard ward when I recently upgraded an L75v30 processor to a L85Ev31 processor. My three PanelViews were not able to communicate with the new processor. I called Rockwell Tech Support on this and she confirmed that standard PanelViews can't communicate to 80 series processors.
This is of course infuriating as the comms setup inside the PanelView only allows you to select a few processor types and "Logix" is one. This development implies that Rockwell doesn't consider the 80 series to be a "logix" processor.
I had to make a work around to make my project work again. I'm betting that scheduled ControlNet communications would have still worked, but that would have involved more PLC code changes than I wanted to mess with.
Ironically, my work around was to point the PanelView at a different L75v30 processor with the same tags in it and when the PanelView changes a tag, that processor sends an UNCONNECTED, UNSCHEDULED message over the same ControlNet to the L85E, which works fine.
I learned this the hard ward when I recently upgraded an L75v30 processor to a L85Ev31 processor. My three PanelViews were not able to communicate with the new processor. I called Rockwell Tech Support on this and she confirmed that standard PanelViews can't communicate to 80 series processors.
This is of course infuriating as the comms setup inside the PanelView only allows you to select a few processor types and "Logix" is one. This development implies that Rockwell doesn't consider the 80 series to be a "logix" processor.
I had to make a work around to make my project work again. I'm betting that scheduled ControlNet communications would have still worked, but that would have involved more PLC code changes than I wanted to mess with.
Ironically, my work around was to point the PanelView at a different L75v30 processor with the same tags in it and when the PanelView changes a tag, that processor sends an UNCONNECTED, UNSCHEDULED message over the same ControlNet to the L85E, which works fine.
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