mecstudent
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Hello all,
I am a college student currently working on my senior year engineering capstone project. As part of this project, I have been given an Allen-Bradley L16ER PLC to control everything. One component I am having trouble with is getting the AutomationDirect STP-DRV-4850 stepper motor driver to talk to the PLC. The Allen-Bradley PLC only has ethernet to communicate with devices and the stepper driver only communicates through RS232 or 485 serial. I bought a USR-TCP232-306 ethernet to serial converter in hopes of getting the two to talk to each other but I can't seem to get RSLinx Classic Lite to find the converter since it shows up as a yellow question mark. Can anyone help me either get the converter to work or recommend a better solution to get the PLC and the stepper driver to communicate? I should also mention that I'm working with a limited budget so unfortunately getting the official Allen-Bradley serial expansion card seems to be out of the question.
Thanks everyone!
I am a college student currently working on my senior year engineering capstone project. As part of this project, I have been given an Allen-Bradley L16ER PLC to control everything. One component I am having trouble with is getting the AutomationDirect STP-DRV-4850 stepper motor driver to talk to the PLC. The Allen-Bradley PLC only has ethernet to communicate with devices and the stepper driver only communicates through RS232 or 485 serial. I bought a USR-TCP232-306 ethernet to serial converter in hopes of getting the two to talk to each other but I can't seem to get RSLinx Classic Lite to find the converter since it shows up as a yellow question mark. Can anyone help me either get the converter to work or recommend a better solution to get the PLC and the stepper driver to communicate? I should also mention that I'm working with a limited budget so unfortunately getting the official Allen-Bradley serial expansion card seems to be out of the question.
Thanks everyone!