RMA
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I've got a production line station which has two Cognex cameras in it to check that components are present and correctly orientated. The second camera was only recently added and came prepared for use with a newer (and much simplified) version of the communications S/W. In order to get the camera up and running quickly, I originally used a copy of the older (more complicated and very uncomfortable) S/W and got things running OK.
Now a management decision has been made to upgrade all the newer cameras to run with the newer S/W, this includes the second camera in this work station. In principal, the modifications sound pretty easy - swap out the handling software FBs and modify the connection data in NetConfig so that the camera is accessed via its Port 3000 instead of Port 23. The changes seem pretty trivial and amount to not much more than 5 minutes work - modify the Port address in NetConfig, compile and save in NetConfig; into HW-Config and compile and save there then download to the SPS.
The main problem is that after this the older camera no longer responds, despite the fact that neither it's S/W nor its details in NetConfig have been changed! (The newer camera doesn't work correctly either, but that's secondary at the moment! ). Using the compare blocks facility to check the differences doesn't bring much help either - a simple statement that the parameters for the object in Rack 0, Slot 4 (the CP343) are different!
Has anybody ever seen anything like this, and is there anyway I can get more info on the differences between the SDBs (I have in the past seen much more detailed info using compare blocks, but this time it's no help at all).
Cheers
Roy
Now a management decision has been made to upgrade all the newer cameras to run with the newer S/W, this includes the second camera in this work station. In principal, the modifications sound pretty easy - swap out the handling software FBs and modify the connection data in NetConfig so that the camera is accessed via its Port 3000 instead of Port 23. The changes seem pretty trivial and amount to not much more than 5 minutes work - modify the Port address in NetConfig, compile and save in NetConfig; into HW-Config and compile and save there then download to the SPS.
The main problem is that after this the older camera no longer responds, despite the fact that neither it's S/W nor its details in NetConfig have been changed! (The newer camera doesn't work correctly either, but that's secondary at the moment! ). Using the compare blocks facility to check the differences doesn't bring much help either - a simple statement that the parameters for the object in Rack 0, Slot 4 (the CP343) are different!
Has anybody ever seen anything like this, and is there anyway I can get more info on the differences between the SDBs (I have in the past seen much more detailed info using compare blocks, but this time it's no help at all).
Cheers
Roy