Jasondelane
Lifetime Supporting Member
My plant has around 25 different machines running 6 flavors of Controllogix from L61 to L84E and versions 15-30.
How much trouble would I have if I took one spare L84E and then took every L83/L84 program and updated the controller in the program to an L84E, so that if I had a controller fail I could quickly swap the controller and load the L84E version of the program to the controller.
I would also get an L72 controller and do the same for all controllers version L61 - L72.
How much does a controller version update change the contents of the program itself? How likely is it that the program continues to run without hiccups?
I recently did a controller upgrade from an L1/A v8 to an L71 v20 without any problems. Can I expect things to go this smoothly with the rest of them? Should I plan to place the spare into service on each machine for 1 shift to verify it functions as expected before putting the old controller back into place?
How much trouble would I have if I took one spare L84E and then took every L83/L84 program and updated the controller in the program to an L84E, so that if I had a controller fail I could quickly swap the controller and load the L84E version of the program to the controller.
I would also get an L72 controller and do the same for all controllers version L61 - L72.
How much does a controller version update change the contents of the program itself? How likely is it that the program continues to run without hiccups?
I recently did a controller upgrade from an L1/A v8 to an L71 v20 without any problems. Can I expect things to go this smoothly with the rest of them? Should I plan to place the spare into service on each machine for 1 shift to verify it functions as expected before putting the old controller back into place?