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Good day,
I have contacted AnyBus support regarding this, BUT thought maybe someone here has suggestions as well.
Okay what I have. I have a vendor built system installed before my time which has sensors that monitor various points of a process. All of this is collected and self contained in their system. Great. Been like that for years. Now operations wants to integrate the vendor system with our control system (AB 1756-L63). Inquiring with the vendor, they already have a terminal strip setup with I/O points that can be used for this purpose. Looking it over I also notice they have an AnyBus ControlNet Serial Gateway which offers more signals without the additional wiring. This being the more favorable option, I set up the gateway on my test bench. Works good. I can send the gateway information from the PLC.
Now I connect the gateway to the field PLC. First thing is the ControlNet is setup with redundant media, which looking over the gateways specs, supports redundant media.
So I connect channel "A" and "B" to their respective taps and open RSLinx to see if it picks up. Nothing. Then I notice some of the nodes that were working now have a yellow triangle. I disconnect the gateway on both channels and those nodes returned back to normal. Trying again, same issue. Thinking maybe this has to do with scheduling, I setup this device in Logix5000, then open RSNetWorxs and scan the network. The device does not show. I import the .eds file and nothing.
Returning to the test bench I can install this device with ease. It picks up in RSNetworxs and RSLinxs no problem. The only thing the test bench does not have is the redundant media.
So anyone have any thoughts? Maybe there is something in the redundant media setup that I am missing? Something in RSNetworxs?
So far AnyBus has suggested to move the tap to another location and try again. I will have to wait for another down day to try this.
Any ways, thanks for your time. I will post the end result regardless.
I have contacted AnyBus support regarding this, BUT thought maybe someone here has suggestions as well.
Okay what I have. I have a vendor built system installed before my time which has sensors that monitor various points of a process. All of this is collected and self contained in their system. Great. Been like that for years. Now operations wants to integrate the vendor system with our control system (AB 1756-L63). Inquiring with the vendor, they already have a terminal strip setup with I/O points that can be used for this purpose. Looking it over I also notice they have an AnyBus ControlNet Serial Gateway which offers more signals without the additional wiring. This being the more favorable option, I set up the gateway on my test bench. Works good. I can send the gateway information from the PLC.
Now I connect the gateway to the field PLC. First thing is the ControlNet is setup with redundant media, which looking over the gateways specs, supports redundant media.
So I connect channel "A" and "B" to their respective taps and open RSLinx to see if it picks up. Nothing. Then I notice some of the nodes that were working now have a yellow triangle. I disconnect the gateway on both channels and those nodes returned back to normal. Trying again, same issue. Thinking maybe this has to do with scheduling, I setup this device in Logix5000, then open RSNetWorxs and scan the network. The device does not show. I import the .eds file and nothing.
Returning to the test bench I can install this device with ease. It picks up in RSNetworxs and RSLinxs no problem. The only thing the test bench does not have is the redundant media.
So anyone have any thoughts? Maybe there is something in the redundant media setup that I am missing? Something in RSNetworxs?
So far AnyBus has suggested to move the tap to another location and try again. I will have to wait for another down day to try this.
Any ways, thanks for your time. I will post the end result regardless.