I have been working wit PLC's for sometime now, however recently i've encounted a situation that had me wondering what should be done.
On one remote location to our general PLC network there is a SLC5/04 connected to a PV1000 via DH+ in addition the SLC Ch0 is used to connect to a motion controller.
I went to the site with my laptop and tried to establish communications with the SLC however it failed. Looking at the offline program showed that CH0 was configured for 'User Mode' hence the SLC was looking for ASCII commands that did not match my DF1 driver.
Question:
Since the laptop is not configured with a DH+ interface card how was I supposed to connect to the SLC?
On one remote location to our general PLC network there is a SLC5/04 connected to a PV1000 via DH+ in addition the SLC Ch0 is used to connect to a motion controller.
I went to the site with my laptop and tried to establish communications with the SLC however it failed. Looking at the offline program showed that CH0 was configured for 'User Mode' hence the SLC was looking for ASCII commands that did not match my DF1 driver.
Question:
Since the laptop is not configured with a DH+ interface card how was I supposed to connect to the SLC?