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Sorry for the lack of detail but roughly, heres what happened...
I was monitoring a piece of equipment that has been acting strangly over the past couple of days. This equipment uses a AB PLC 5-25 processor.
In the shop I had a laptop set up to view the program online. I also had a desktop setup to view the same program online. Using the desktop I went to check a MSG instruction to see where a bit was coming from. When I clicked on setup, I noticed the laptop go into Data Highway Plus has timed out. The set up screen on the MSG instruction showed This Plc Data Table adress as I0000 and the length at like 23479. Ugh. I closed the setup screen and reopened it and all was well, Data Table adress n30:10 and length 10. Which is more like what I wanted to see. The desktop stayed online. The laptop was knocked offline.
We have noticed quite a few Data highway timed out errors over the past couple of days when just using the desktop,and monitoring this piece of equipment, that is why I decided to hook up the laptop. We never get a timeout error unless someone powers down the plc.
My question is, Why did the laptop go into timeout when the
desktop did not?
Anyway, Im just looking for some feedback if anyone has some.
TGIF only 2 more days to work till this work week is over!
I was monitoring a piece of equipment that has been acting strangly over the past couple of days. This equipment uses a AB PLC 5-25 processor.
In the shop I had a laptop set up to view the program online. I also had a desktop setup to view the same program online. Using the desktop I went to check a MSG instruction to see where a bit was coming from. When I clicked on setup, I noticed the laptop go into Data Highway Plus has timed out. The set up screen on the MSG instruction showed This Plc Data Table adress as I0000 and the length at like 23479. Ugh. I closed the setup screen and reopened it and all was well, Data Table adress n30:10 and length 10. Which is more like what I wanted to see. The desktop stayed online. The laptop was knocked offline.
We have noticed quite a few Data highway timed out errors over the past couple of days when just using the desktop,and monitoring this piece of equipment, that is why I decided to hook up the laptop. We never get a timeout error unless someone powers down the plc.
My question is, Why did the laptop go into timeout when the
desktop did not?
Anyway, Im just looking for some feedback if anyone has some.
TGIF only 2 more days to work till this work week is over!