Hello,
I am new to both the compactlogix and messaging. I have 30 tags (int, dint, and real data types) in a micro850 that I need to read from a compactlogix plc. I am currently individually messaging each one of these points and I am wondering if there is a better way. Compounding this issue is that I have multiple 850 sites to retrieve data from, so I need to be able to scale this up from a one to one communication to a one to many communication, where one compactlogix plc will be reading 30 different data point from 20 different 850Â’s. Each 850 site will have the same tags, but obviously different values based on its location. I was able to bring in 5 sites, but on the 6th site, the L33 locks. I called Rockwell and they recommended one large routine, instead of one routine per site, but that seems like a nightmare from a support perspective. Have any of you performed anything like this before and if so, do you have any sample code you could provide? Does anyone have any recommended best practices here? Thank you.
I am new to both the compactlogix and messaging. I have 30 tags (int, dint, and real data types) in a micro850 that I need to read from a compactlogix plc. I am currently individually messaging each one of these points and I am wondering if there is a better way. Compounding this issue is that I have multiple 850 sites to retrieve data from, so I need to be able to scale this up from a one to one communication to a one to many communication, where one compactlogix plc will be reading 30 different data point from 20 different 850Â’s. Each 850 site will have the same tags, but obviously different values based on its location. I was able to bring in 5 sites, but on the 6th site, the L33 locks. I called Rockwell and they recommended one large routine, instead of one routine per site, but that seems like a nightmare from a support perspective. Have any of you performed anything like this before and if so, do you have any sample code you could provide? Does anyone have any recommended best practices here? Thank you.