What do you mean my forces installed??
Do you mean enabled forces or is it an extra install from the disk
in regards to "forces" - RSLogix5000 uses the word "Installed" to mean "Present" or "Existing" ...
maybe this will help ... reference the figure below ...
(1) this legend is also a BUTTON that you can press to change the menu being displayed ...
depending on your system's conditions, this legend will say either "Forces" or "No Forces" ...
(2) this little triangle is the "Force Icon" ...
clicking this icon will pop up a menu and let you control the I/O Forces ... note that you could also control SFC (Sequential Function Chart) forces if you were working with that type of programming ...
(3) in the example shown, this legend is telling us that we currently have at least one I/O Force "Installed" - or in other words, "present" - or in other words, "existing" ...
the little square icon is supposed to mirror whatever the "Force" LED on the front of the processor is doing ... either "Off" – or on "Solid Gold" – or "Flashing On and Off" ...
(4) NEVER (I repeat, NEVER) trust this piece of junk ...
this icon offers to "Find All Forces" – but it ONLY looks through your routines – NOT through the tag listing ... that means that someone might have left a force in the tag listings for an input or output which might not actually be used in your programming code ... this "Find All Forces" piece of junk would MISS FINDING THAT FORCE – and leave you holding a smoking gun when you proceed without knowing about said force ... there is no way for that scenario to end well ...
and in some versions of RSLogix5000, this "Find All Forces" piece of junk also has a nasty habit of hanging up your "Search" feature ...
suggested reading:
http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?p=441852&postcount=11
(5) you can push this button and set it to show "Can Be Forced" ... this would be very helpful if you had a large system with 30 or 40 thousand tags to look through ... if you choose to not set it to "Can Be Forced" – make sure that it says "Show All" instead ... anything else could leave some of your forces off the list ... (that would be "bad") ...
important: if you change the setting of this button, be sure to set it back to "Show All" when you're finished ... it's quite easy to miss the fact that your tag list might not include ALL of your tags ...
(6) make sure that the "Scope" is set for the "Controller" level ...
note that anything that can be forced must be scoped at the "Controller" level ... yes, there might also be aliases scoped at the "Program" level which could be forced – but in that case the "base tag" will still be scoped back at the "Controller" level ... secret handshake: you don't have to search through all of the "Program" tags when looking for forces ...
(7) this is the "Force Mask" where the forces will actually appear ...
make sure that this column is set wide enough to adequately display the information ... it's easy to get confused because RSLogix5000 uses a PERIOD to mean "not forced" – but they also use THREE PERIODS (an ellipsis) to mean "my column is not set wide enough" ...
(8) here the word "Forced" is telling us that something in tag "Local:1:I" is being forced either ON or OFF ...
(9) by "drilling down" we can see a "1" that means that a particular input signal in tag "Local:1:I.Data" is being "Forced ON" ...
a "0" in this legend would mean "Forced OFF" ... a "." here means "Not Forced" ... (again, assuming that the column is set wide enough) ...
(10) by "drilling down" another step we can see the same "1" in another format – which is a representation that the specific input signal from "Local:1:I.Data.2" is being "Forced ON" ...
now we would need to go down through the rest of the "Force Mask" column and make sure that there are no OTHER forces lurking in the underbrush ...
caution: I never let my students use the scroll bars or mouse wheel for moving down through the column ... depending on how you're communicating with the processor, it's possible to scroll down too fast for the screen to update ... you could conceivably miss some forces that way ... I recommend that you use the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys on your keyboard – and give the screen plenty of time to update between key presses ... we're looking for loaded hand grenades here ... let's take our time and be certain that we're not missing anything ...
I hope this helps ...
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