Kenny A
Member
I am running a GE 90/30 plc with 3 quick panel HMI's. I changed one out about two months ago and sent two out for repair. I needed to change out another one today. I replaced the panel and connected with a serial tool cable and downloaded the application. The quickpanel took the download but it keeps flashing ERROR lost communication with PLC, then after it flashes for a while it reboots. The quickpanel's i have are 12.1" QPLC's.
I have been searching through old posts and can't seem to find anything that matches my problem.
A few things i tried. Before i downloaded the application, i went under properties in the navigator and changed the ip address to the one for the panel. I had to change coms back to serial com1 before download. I tried both quickpanels that i have that i just received from my distributer that were repaired. Both are doing the same thing. I seem to think i am missing something. I searched the help files in my software which is GE cimplicity machine addition ver 4.0, that was no help either. I just looked at the repair tickets that came back with my quickpanel and one described some of the problem that i am having now and they stated that the software was corrupted. I did find some information in my search about setting the ip address. I am not sure if that is something that i need to set on the quickpanel before i download to it or not. If anyone knows how this is done, i would appreciate some information. I did ping the ip addresses on my network and only received responses back from the plc and one other quickpanel. The one i changed two months ago does not respond, but the panel seems to be working properly. (I know that does not make any sense to me)
Well i will finish my rant now and ask for help. If anyone has some information they would like to share, i would really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Kenny A
I have been searching through old posts and can't seem to find anything that matches my problem.
A few things i tried. Before i downloaded the application, i went under properties in the navigator and changed the ip address to the one for the panel. I had to change coms back to serial com1 before download. I tried both quickpanels that i have that i just received from my distributer that were repaired. Both are doing the same thing. I seem to think i am missing something. I searched the help files in my software which is GE cimplicity machine addition ver 4.0, that was no help either. I just looked at the repair tickets that came back with my quickpanel and one described some of the problem that i am having now and they stated that the software was corrupted. I did find some information in my search about setting the ip address. I am not sure if that is something that i need to set on the quickpanel before i download to it or not. If anyone knows how this is done, i would appreciate some information. I did ping the ip addresses on my network and only received responses back from the plc and one other quickpanel. The one i changed two months ago does not respond, but the panel seems to be working properly. (I know that does not make any sense to me)
Well i will finish my rant now and ask for help. If anyone has some information they would like to share, i would really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Kenny A