dwilson
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I've been press-ganged into helping someone get an older Modicon system operational. They are NOT programmers.
The machine has sat idle (unpowered) long enough for the battery to peg out, so the program is lost. I have impressed upon the owners that rewriting the program from scratch will be time-consuming, and expensive (I'm not doing it for free), but if some correspondence in the documentation pile is any indication, the machine is 10-11 yrs stale, and the original builder is not likely to be on speaking terms with the current owners (lotsa bugs and back-billing demands for lost time, emails, etc.). There's a Magelis-Telemec HMI that seems operational (PLC is brain-dead, lotsa red 'x's, so can't be sure).
Anyway, I'm wondering what the path of least resistance is for basic upload-download-editing on this puppy is.
I see some discussion of ProWorx 32, ProWorxNxT, and a package from Fast-track. Schneider's website is not the most helpful on this.
P.S. This is likely a one-off for me. I haven't crossed paths with Modicon equipment since the early 90's. The outfit with the equipment is not big enough to have a maintenance dept.
Any thoughts?
/dw
The machine has sat idle (unpowered) long enough for the battery to peg out, so the program is lost. I have impressed upon the owners that rewriting the program from scratch will be time-consuming, and expensive (I'm not doing it for free), but if some correspondence in the documentation pile is any indication, the machine is 10-11 yrs stale, and the original builder is not likely to be on speaking terms with the current owners (lotsa bugs and back-billing demands for lost time, emails, etc.). There's a Magelis-Telemec HMI that seems operational (PLC is brain-dead, lotsa red 'x's, so can't be sure).
Anyway, I'm wondering what the path of least resistance is for basic upload-download-editing on this puppy is.
I see some discussion of ProWorx 32, ProWorxNxT, and a package from Fast-track. Schneider's website is not the most helpful on this.
P.S. This is likely a one-off for me. I haven't crossed paths with Modicon equipment since the early 90's. The outfit with the equipment is not big enough to have a maintenance dept.
Any thoughts?
/dw