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welcome back Chris, i am pleased to see that MrPLC is under your management....

i did not...i tried but my phone connection was rather spotty and searches were slow, and the plant did not have guest WiFi so i was on my own. i tried all i could think of to no avail. and changing Locale was the only thing remaining that i could think off (at least one that was easy and quick to try). i have seen similar issues reported for other products (users from different countries running into issue with specific software, like WorkVisual etc.). another clue was seeing comments in the freshly uploaded PLC code. Machine was built in China but the comments did not look like Chinese characters at all although there are several Chines fonts on every Windows machine (SimSun, SimHei....). but the PLC texts and comments were rendered in "garbage" ASCII characters one normally sees when looking at binary files in a text editor. so after dozens of failed attempts i tried this and - voila. it worked instantly.

Was repairing piece of equipment and first time experiencing NB product. the NB Designer was not part of Omron suite so had to be downloaded separately. It is a free download. USB driver was included. Uploading project from HMI was straight forward, default password worked: 888888 The problem was trying to decompile uploaded file. It kept asking for another password, and then failing. Messages suggested that file was corrupt or password was wrong or wrong length (since it did not work, i did try guessing...). Message was: PKG file error, possible destroyed Turns out file and password were fine. The only thing needed was to change Locale of the computer on which NB Designer was running to a Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) and reboot. After this decompilation was a snap. Maybe this helps someone else too. Cheers...

Any modern Ethernet switches will automatically only forward traffic to right ports. In fact this is an issue of one wants to listen to traffic between other nodes. And this is what managed switches are for. one can create own rules to forward traffic to specific port (for listening/monitoring) or block off unwanted traffic or force certain behavior such as forcing baud rate, enabling/disabling auto negotiation etc,

K30GL is just a crimper. it does not cut or strip wire, does not have ferrule magazine...

this would be much easier to answer if the exact product type was mentioned.

internet search revealed posts that suggest running software as different user (not admin), check front properties (must not have protected attribute). nothing worked.

hello everyone, Got a PLC/HMI project from machine vendor. The problem is that HMI does not compile. Both fonts are present of course but message suggest error stripping the font.... Sometimes there is additional warning about SimSun but that is just a warning...

i am not using those exact product but... i have worked with EtherCat many times and connected multiples of same nodes without issue. each physical node gets its own instance in the controller. you do not access one node to get the values to/from the other, so it does not matter that PDOs are named the same way - they are in a different instance/node. in terms of troubleshooting first thing is always to see how they are all connected, and is the network topology correct. lets put it this way: if the hardware side is not setup correctly, there is no hope of stumbling on correct settings in the software. in EtherCat network, nodes are daisy chained. branches are possible but there are limitations and this requires hardware that supports this. so once the hardware side is verified, one can deal with the software. how did you configure it in your controller? did you scan the network or manually populate it? are you sure that topology in software matches what you have done in hardware?

you can replace it with many products. the question is why... are you running out of I/O or need something that you do not find in that product? alternatives are likely going to cost more not to mention time to create documentation, code and have it all approved.

using speed control allow you to control the speed but it will not get you precision when it comes to position. for precise position cuts you need position feedback. doe your axis have an encoder?

well, time is running out, got to make it work... drive memory is organized in menu/parameter fashion. until i have time to investigate closer, i will be using few unassigned menu locations. this is less than ideal since they are scattered ... would prefer single (or two) blocks of memory without tiptoeing around used ones. oh well...

hello everyone, I am able to connect to servo using driver device/server "Control Techniques SI-Ethernet Modbus TCP". this accesses servo by specifying memory locations in form of menu entry and parameter number. But i need to exchange more than that. drive has built in PLC and i did not find out what device driver or settings would allow that. any ideas?

did you try manually setting the outputs on? are you sure there is nothing clearing them? did wiring change at all? problem started after program download?

exactly