Colt Hero
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Years ago, we had a PLC-5 here running some "Supervisory" Utilities Logic. It had (still has) a Wonderware front-end. It was reading multiple Rockwell and GE PLCs. A Contractor came in (2012 timeframe) and replaced the "Supervisory" PLC with a ControlLogix PLC. The end result was - the Rockwell stuff still worked, and the newer GE stuff worked, but some of the older GE stuff stopped working (no data on the Wonderware front-end). The older GE stuff appears to use GE "Genius" hardware modules (Serial data?), and then in the gray Electrical Cabinets are some GE boxes (are these GE PLCs?? ) with network cables that are flashing like they are communicating with something, but I don't know what. I also don't know what these IP addresses would be, and the Rockwell LCD display on the gray Cabinet doesn't seem to have any Menu I can read that on.
What I was thinking was ... I'd look at the old PLC-5 program to see how it compared to the new ControlLogix program (because I know the new program has installed PowerFlex Modules), but there isn't any software here to view the old program. Is there a "Viewer"/Read-Only that I can download just to view the PLC-5 program?
And can anybody shed any light on how these GE Fanuc GENIUS Modules are connected? They look like Terminal Blocks with a Serial Connection ... maybe back to that GE "block" inside the Gray Cabinet (with the Network Connection)? And is there an easy way to find out the IP Address on one of these Blocks?
I'm gonna try to get some better identifying information on the GE stuff and post it back here. Sorry for the scant information so far ...
What I was thinking was ... I'd look at the old PLC-5 program to see how it compared to the new ControlLogix program (because I know the new program has installed PowerFlex Modules), but there isn't any software here to view the old program. Is there a "Viewer"/Read-Only that I can download just to view the PLC-5 program?
And can anybody shed any light on how these GE Fanuc GENIUS Modules are connected? They look like Terminal Blocks with a Serial Connection ... maybe back to that GE "block" inside the Gray Cabinet (with the Network Connection)? And is there an easy way to find out the IP Address on one of these Blocks?
I'm gonna try to get some better identifying information on the GE stuff and post it back here. Sorry for the scant information so far ...