A/B has been touting their Micro800 Connected Components line with the ability to simply drag and drop Powerflex drives into the project but now that I'm into a project it seems that dropping a Powerflex drive into the project does nothing for you except replace Drive Explorer. It appears that the only way to communicate with the drives is via Explicit MODBUS messages. Am I missing something here or is this the way it is. At least with MicroLogix they had a library of proven code for Powerflex you could just drop in and use.
I'm not that impressed with the Micro800 line so far. Having to map all of your PLC registers to Modbus addresses just to talk to a Panelview? Seems like Disconnected Components to me.
I'm not that impressed with the Micro800 line so far. Having to map all of your PLC registers to Modbus addresses just to talk to a Panelview? Seems like Disconnected Components to me.