Valley Ind
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I am working on the screens, alarms, and recipe on a PanelView Plus 1000. It will end up connected to a PLC and communicate via EtherNet IP, but I will not have a PLC to work with for a month or two.
I would like to test my PanelView development as I go along to see if it is working the way I want it to but I don't have a PLC to read and write Tags back-and-forth with.
So I was thinking if I could use a PC to stand-in for a PLC. I am not thinking of it acting totally like a PLC, just enough to raise an alarm and see if it registers on the PanelView.
I can use a terminal program or write my own program in the PC to generate and send serial data out the RS232 port and I found a device that will convert RS232 to EtherNet IP but I don't know what is the equivalent serial data (string) that would be the same as a PLC Tag going True. What would I "say" in ASCII that would get converter to EtherNet IP that the PanelView will see and trigger an alarm?
Your help is appreciated, as it always is.
I would like to test my PanelView development as I go along to see if it is working the way I want it to but I don't have a PLC to read and write Tags back-and-forth with.
So I was thinking if I could use a PC to stand-in for a PLC. I am not thinking of it acting totally like a PLC, just enough to raise an alarm and see if it registers on the PanelView.
I can use a terminal program or write my own program in the PC to generate and send serial data out the RS232 port and I found a device that will convert RS232 to EtherNet IP but I don't know what is the equivalent serial data (string) that would be the same as a PLC Tag going True. What would I "say" in ASCII that would get converter to EtherNet IP that the PanelView will see and trigger an alarm?
Your help is appreciated, as it always is.