OkiePC
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We have an upcoming project which specs call for a L32E. The customer recently had a failure on a phone line controlling their raw water pumps so we whipped up a telemetry solution using two ML1400 talking over UHF radios so they can continue to start and stop the plant with the old controls.
When the upgrade is complete, the main PLC will be the L32E, but we intend to keep the UHF radios and the ML1400 at the raw water pumps. I set them up with DF1 radio protocol but could have chosen Modbus I suppose.
Is it possible to use a serial port on the Compactlogix that supports DF1 radio protocol? I did search a little bit, but I might end up concluding that we may just keep the ML1400 at the plant as a telemetry master and just set up messaging between it and the L32E in the same panel. If there is a better way, or other alternatives, I'd like to know.
Thanks.
When the upgrade is complete, the main PLC will be the L32E, but we intend to keep the UHF radios and the ML1400 at the raw water pumps. I set them up with DF1 radio protocol but could have chosen Modbus I suppose.
Is it possible to use a serial port on the Compactlogix that supports DF1 radio protocol? I did search a little bit, but I might end up concluding that we may just keep the ML1400 at the plant as a telemetry master and just set up messaging between it and the L32E in the same panel. If there is a better way, or other alternatives, I'd like to know.
Thanks.
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