Hello,
New to this forum and need a little help. I am working on a project to read the feed back from the VFD and create statistical data "trendlines" to detect motor, gear box and belt wear. We are currently using AB5000 processors with revision 19 and communicating through Profibus DP to the VFD's. We have 4 bytes of data per VFD. We are currently only using them for start/stop, faults and speed reference. Not for sure if I will need to expand the amount of bytes each VFD is communicating with. The only feedback from the VFD we are seeing is speed reference. The VFD's are power flex 70's and we are using ProSoft software to access the ProfiBus. Is there an add on instruction already made to access this data as I am not sure how to pull it out and send it to the PLC. Thanks for any insight!
New to this forum and need a little help. I am working on a project to read the feed back from the VFD and create statistical data "trendlines" to detect motor, gear box and belt wear. We are currently using AB5000 processors with revision 19 and communicating through Profibus DP to the VFD's. We have 4 bytes of data per VFD. We are currently only using them for start/stop, faults and speed reference. Not for sure if I will need to expand the amount of bytes each VFD is communicating with. The only feedback from the VFD we are seeing is speed reference. The VFD's are power flex 70's and we are using ProSoft software to access the ProfiBus. Is there an add on instruction already made to access this data as I am not sure how to pull it out and send it to the PLC. Thanks for any insight!