Johnster
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Hey guys,
this is getting tough.
The PLC is an old Square D Micro-1 8003 series. It runs on 120vac and has an I/O expansion card (8in 6 out) ribbon cabled-to it. it currently has a good running program.
I need to suck the program out to troubleshoot and for an archive I'm building.
I have a NR&D SCM1D cable to go from RS-232 to RS-422. It is on the end of a 25 to 9-pin serial adapter. no null modem adapter that I have used (yet).
Using the SFW30 software...
I have tried setting the 'port' in the program (SFW30.exe) to 002 or 010, no dice - is this the port of the program or of the PLC you wish to connect to ? is there a default ?
My first few attempts were on a windows XP machine using a USB serial adapter - no dice (no surprise either)
So I found an old Pentium III laptop with a native serial port- I set the SFW30 Port to 002, using both the RS232 settings and RS422 settings inside of SFW30 it didn't work. Whenever I tried to go online (F1 from the main screen) it would wait for a second (it was trying) and say "Connection error" On another screen in SFW30 I found a message saying "Network error -1028" which I guess means that its not talking =)
I also downloaded DOSBox, and set it up for 9600 8N1 in the DOSbox config file. I ran SFW30 in dosbox with the same above setups and got the very same results.
a null-modem adapter is the only thing I can think of and havent tried (I need to dig one up...)
Lotsa ideas on this board for the older AB controllers, but I'm not seeing much on the Micro-1's.
Anyone else here ever been online with a Square D Micro-1 ?
-John
this is getting tough.
The PLC is an old Square D Micro-1 8003 series. It runs on 120vac and has an I/O expansion card (8in 6 out) ribbon cabled-to it. it currently has a good running program.
I need to suck the program out to troubleshoot and for an archive I'm building.
I have a NR&D SCM1D cable to go from RS-232 to RS-422. It is on the end of a 25 to 9-pin serial adapter. no null modem adapter that I have used (yet).
Using the SFW30 software...
I have tried setting the 'port' in the program (SFW30.exe) to 002 or 010, no dice - is this the port of the program or of the PLC you wish to connect to ? is there a default ?
My first few attempts were on a windows XP machine using a USB serial adapter - no dice (no surprise either)
So I found an old Pentium III laptop with a native serial port- I set the SFW30 Port to 002, using both the RS232 settings and RS422 settings inside of SFW30 it didn't work. Whenever I tried to go online (F1 from the main screen) it would wait for a second (it was trying) and say "Connection error" On another screen in SFW30 I found a message saying "Network error -1028" which I guess means that its not talking =)
I also downloaded DOSBox, and set it up for 9600 8N1 in the DOSbox config file. I ran SFW30 in dosbox with the same above setups and got the very same results.
a null-modem adapter is the only thing I can think of and havent tried (I need to dig one up...)
Lotsa ideas on this board for the older AB controllers, but I'm not seeing much on the Micro-1's.
Anyone else here ever been online with a Square D Micro-1 ?
-John
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