slick_william
Member
Good afternoon good people of the PLCtalk.net forum,
We are doing some work for a customer where we will be converting their existing PLC-5/40 PLC's to shiny new ControlLogixes, and we will be using the 1771- conversion kits with the swing arms so that we can use the existing PLC-5 modules with the conversion kit to the ControlLogixes, instead of having to re-land all the wires.
That being said, this would require us to know exactly which modules are installed in the existing PLC-5's (and remote IO racks), but of course the cards are installed into slots right next to one another, while the model number of the I/O cards will be on the side of the card, where we cannot get to it without removing the card.
Is there a way to take a program upload from a PLC-5 and grab the existing IO configuration, where it would include the part numbers (such as 1771-IFE) and things like that? Or is there another trick to doing something like this?
Thanks,
Will
We are doing some work for a customer where we will be converting their existing PLC-5/40 PLC's to shiny new ControlLogixes, and we will be using the 1771- conversion kits with the swing arms so that we can use the existing PLC-5 modules with the conversion kit to the ControlLogixes, instead of having to re-land all the wires.
That being said, this would require us to know exactly which modules are installed in the existing PLC-5's (and remote IO racks), but of course the cards are installed into slots right next to one another, while the model number of the I/O cards will be on the side of the card, where we cannot get to it without removing the card.
Is there a way to take a program upload from a PLC-5 and grab the existing IO configuration, where it would include the part numbers (such as 1771-IFE) and things like that? Or is there another trick to doing something like this?
Thanks,
Will