Imi'ike
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I am having trouble using ASCII text with the Allen-Bradley DF1 driver in Siemens ProTool/Pro. I am using a TP270 – 6” and an Allen-Bradley SLC 5/04. I have the driver working and the TP270 and the SLC 5/04 communicating. I am successfully passing data using the B, N, F, I, and O files. However, I can not get the ASCII text files to transfer – that is, the ST file in the SLC.
In the ProTool tag properties window, I have selected the PLC just as I have with the other file types. The type is ASCII, the file type is A (it is the only one that allows ASCII), the file number as 10, the element as 0, and the length as 4.
In the SLC program I have ST10:0 with four characters.
When I load the TP and SLC and go to the screen with the output field, the TP displays an error window with the following number and message:
190004
Tag PlcVersion: PLC address error
Where “PlcVersion” is the tag I created.
Does anyone know how to get Allen-Bradley DF1 driver in Siemens ProTool to read an ST file in a SLC5/04?
In the ProTool tag properties window, I have selected the PLC just as I have with the other file types. The type is ASCII, the file type is A (it is the only one that allows ASCII), the file number as 10, the element as 0, and the length as 4.
![TagProperties.jpg](https://www.plctalk.net/qanda/uploads/TagProperties.jpg)
In the SLC program I have ST10:0 with four characters.
When I load the TP and SLC and go to the screen with the output field, the TP displays an error window with the following number and message:
190004
Tag PlcVersion: PLC address error
Where “PlcVersion” is the tag I created.
Does anyone know how to get Allen-Bradley DF1 driver in Siemens ProTool to read an ST file in a SLC5/04?