Alan Case
Lifetime Supporting Member
Hi all. I might be missing the obvious but at present I am modifying a control logix program that speaks over devicenet to a powerflex 70 drive. The original program has 2 command words in a user defined data type to control the drive. 1 word is the speed reference and the other word is made of bits, ie start command, stop command, acel rate 1 etc. I cannot find the correlation between the word/bits and the drive. In lesser drives and processors I have just nominated the assembly to use in the devicenet software but I see no similarities here.
Another question, I wish to message via CIP Generic to the drive and set an attribute. To set the path I look in the browse window of the message command and click on the devicenet card. The card is accepted, the path displays as DEVICENET but there is no where that I can nominate the node number I wish to message to. Is this the correct procedure or do I have to manually enter a full path name to the node.
I guess I should read the manuals. Thanks in advance. Alan
Another question, I wish to message via CIP Generic to the drive and set an attribute. To set the path I look in the browse window of the message command and click on the devicenet card. The card is accepted, the path displays as DEVICENET but there is no where that I can nominate the node number I wish to message to. Is this the correct procedure or do I have to manually enter a full path name to the node.
I guess I should read the manuals. Thanks in advance. Alan