AB Logix L62 major fault - Question on CF Card

[harryting]

One of the L62 faulted last week. First time I seen one of this in my many years of working with ControlLogix. Rockwell seems to take this seriously and asked for a bunch of information and one of the ask is the content of the SD or CF card.

So, typically, we don't have memory card in our contrologix PLCs and I never felt I needed them. Back in the SLC days I actually tend to remove the EEPROM since people tend to forget about them and older program would get loaded after a power cycle. I know one can use the card for data log but what else if the card used for? I guess fault info is one of those so it would be good have one a SD or CF card installed? What CF card would be compatible beside one from AB?

The fault is Type 01 Power-up Fault, Code 60-Non-recoverable Fault.

 

[dmroeder]

Not sure about CLX, but CompactLogix was very picky about CF cards. Though a redditor recently found a solution to make the CompactLogix like the after market cards:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PLC/comments/hp78qi/compactlogix_compact_flash_card_trick_i_learned/

If the PLC didn't like the card, it would let you know by turning the CF LED red.