Ge Fanuc Series Six manuals

[Doraimon]

Dear all,

We have to replace a GE Fanuc PLC. In order to evaluate if beginning from scratch writing functional descriptions or to do the conversion of the program manually I would like if somebody can send these manuals:
GEK-96602A Series six user's manual.
GEK-25367E Series six Data Sheets manual.

If so please send me a private message.
Thanks in advanced.

[PLucas]

Doraimon

What PLC are you changing over to?

Do you want the users manual for the Series Six PLC or the Logicmaster 6 programming software manual?

The programming manual number is GEK-25379.

We have done a conversion from a Series Six to a Siemens S5 in the past and I can tell you that this was no straight forward conversion, in the end it was a total re-write (not that I expected anything else).


Paul

[Doraimon]

Dear Paul,

We are changing to ABB AC400 series. That means, as you said, that the code must be rewrite completely, for sure.

What I need now is some manual where the GE CPU instruction set is described in order to find equivalent ABB function blocks.
GE CPU is IC600CB524 (arithmetic control) with IC600CB526 (logic ctrl. Exp.).

The documentation we have is the program printed.
I know it’s a very hard work, but if we can’t take profit of it we’ll have to begin to discuss with the customer how the process works and agree functional descriptions for writing the program from scratch. We have to evaluate that.

Thanks for you fast reply,
D.

[Hussey]

I do have copies of the manuals you listed, are there certain pages you need or do you need the entire manual? I would be happy to send some via fax, but not sure i want to part with the entire collection.

[Steve Bailey]

The Series Six manuals are available as .pdf files. Unfortunately, they are not available online. They are on the 'Legacy Products' CD. You might check with a local supplier to see if you can make a copy. I have that CD, but the manuals you need are all large files. Even after compression, they are too large for my ISP's email server.

[PLucas]

Doraimon

It seems to me that you do not need the manuals to do your conversion, as you have a printed copy of the original program you can easily replicate the 'standard' ladder logic, the maths functions are self explanatory. Some of the 'advanced' instruction sets are probably difficult to understand if you are not used to using them.

If there are any particular instructions that you do not understand within the program then post them on this forum and I for one (and others I am sure) will gladly give you an explanation (if I can).

Series Six PLC's are ones that I know a lot about. I would be interested in looking at your program if you can email me the .LAD and .NAM files I would be grateful. (providing you are not breaking any company industrial secrets policies)

Paul