Importing runtime hours from powerflex drives to PLC

[JohnJPhillips]

Hi everyone,

Long time lurker here with a first post. Part of my tasks are recording the runtime hours on our drives here which are a mix of powerflex 75, 40, and 755 mostly. I am familiar with certain paramaters and drive feedback in 5000. I was wondering if anyone knows how to import that parameter to the plc so rather than spend half a day per month running around checking drives, I could make a routine that would display all of the hours and save a ton of time and money.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help out with any information.

 

[Dravik]

Yes you can.

If you have spare datalinks, you can just bring the runtime in across those.

If you don't(or don't want to use datalinks for this), You can use a read msg to each drive.

 

[JohnJPhillips]

Thanks, I'll look into the read msg option. Datalinks would be a difficult project.

 

[Dravik]

Ken, one of the forum regulars, posted this a while back http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=60889
Might help

 

[JohnJPhillips]

Wow!

Thanks, Dravic, that's gold. Thanks to Ken Roach by extension, this should really get the ball rolling for me.