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Error on my previous reply. Your PC or Laptop IP address should be 192.168.3.249, 255.255.255.000, assuming the PLC has reverted to factory default. Colandra

A couple of points to consider, you may have already addressed these. 1. Default IP for FX5U is 192.168.3.250, subnet 255.255.255.000. You need to make sure your PC or Laptop Ethernet card is set to the same IP Family, Lets say 192.168.3.249, subnet 255.255.255.000. 2. It is possible the PLC has had a power spike and the onboard program has corrupted. Once you have item 1 sorted, do a PLC memory clear, and re-download your program, cycle the power and test. I note there is not a memory retention battery installed, if the PLC has been de-powered for a good length of time memory may have been lost. Have a look at the above issues and see how you go. Regards Colandra

A couple of points to consider, you may have already addressed these. 1. Default IP for FX5U is 192.168.3.250, subnet 255.255.255.000. You need to make sure your PC or Laptop Ethernet card is set to the same IP Family, Lets say 102.168.3.249, subnet 255.255.255.000. 2. It is possible the PLC has had a power spike and the onboard program has corrupted. Once you have item 1 sorted, do a PLC memory clear, and re-download your program, cycle the power and test. I note there is not a memory retention battery installed, if the PLC has been de-powered for a good length of time memory may have been lost. Have a look at the above issues and see how you go. Regards Colandra

Hello, You can use a Q03UDECPU, however, an alternative is a Q03UDVCPU, this will also work. Be mindful though Q series is at end of life, and has been superseded by the IQR series. Regards

I have read your issue. What programming software are you using, and what PLC are you communicating with. Something to check quickly, if there is a backup battery on the PLC, make sure it is plugged in. Regards Colandra

You should be ok with the USB cable. Did you change the the connection settings to USB From there you can test the connection as well. In the connection1 you select USB, PLC module, and No Specification. You can then press connection test, and it should indicate it sees the PLC. If this does not work try a different USB cable The software defaults to a RS232 serial connection, most people use the FX-USB-AW cable for mini din communications. See how you go Colandra

Hello, What PLc are you using ? Can you provide more detail as to the purpose of the PC. Is it for programming and download, or some other function. GX Developer is discontinued, and no longer supports, still functions mind you. GX Works 2 is no longer available as a standalone package. You might consider GX Works 3, which comes with GX Works 2 included. Some idea of you application would be good as well Colandra

Are you using a FX3U-Enet module. If you are there is a configuration tool you need to change it in the module directly. I have attached it, this may help. Colandra FX+Configurator-EN+1.40.zip

Ting, Q Series is at end of life from a production point of view. Spare parts will become harder to get, and more expensive, in the very near future, and this process has already started. The IQR is priced very well, sometimes even cheaper than the Q on certain modules from my experience. The IQR platform has been widely adopted, I use it myself for our project work. We have moved away from Q Series all together. Not knowing your applications, it is hard to comment on CPU selection. As with any equipment of this nature, customers and their needs, drive development of any product, true the Q series is a very capable PLC, the IQR is the next evolution of a stable platform. Many customers are future proofing their plant in the form of PLC selection and upgrades. The availability of spare parts is a driving factor, more so than functionality. Hope this assists Regards Colandra

HMI.JR, what programming software are you using please. Colandra

Not wishing to be silly here, did you connect 24v to the module itself. I have had people miss this before. No power no output Colandra

Second line should be TO K0 K1 D70 K4 Regards Colandra

Monitor your PLC power supply. If there ia a spike or some sort of transient this can cause the system to shutdown and restart. May help, worth considering. have changed out the key components, and you still have the issue. It could be one of the other modules on the rack, networking module or analogue module would be the units to look at first. If one of these units are pulling the rack supply down, this will also give you the issue you describe. Also, if you have a large volume of VSD's in your plant you may be producing a high 5th harmonic. You need reactors on the incoming of the VSD units in question to reduce the system harmonic. EMC ration from VSD units in close proximity to the PLC can sometime cause issues such as described. Regards Colandra

A couple of possible reasons 1. The CPU battery has expired. 2. Base issue 3. Transient spike on the power supply. When you reload your software, make sure you do a PLC Memory Clear first to make sure there is no redundant code left behind Last possible option is the CPU has failed, but this would be most most unusual for a Mitsubishi automation product. The last thought for me is, and this one is right out there, but I have had the issue is harmonics developed by variable speed drives. If the harmonic level in your power supply is high, usually the 5th harmonic, this can cause some very odd reactions with electronics in general. Just something to remember. Hope the above helps Colandra .

To confirm Win 7 64 bit is fine we use pro though, never had an issue with the FX-USB Drivers Colandra

Attached are a set of driver files for you. This should help Colandra fxusbdrv150.zip

Uchihalila, Can you advise please what A series CPU are we talking about and what Q series CPU are you intending to use. Also, which programming software package was used to generate the A series program, or you use to look at the A series program currently. Thanks

Aakash Attached are a couple of pages for you to look at. Note though, if C251 is used X0 and X0 are already allocated to C251. You would need to change the counter to C235 and not use C251 at all in your program. Rewgards Colandra

Aakash First seven inputs linked to the counters in the PLC. If you check the FX3U programming manual, available from mymitsubishi, there is a table which indicates the input identification and the input purpose purpose. There are various types of encoders you can use of course. The manual also shows you the HS counters, and the various PLC commands available to you. There is no cost to sign up to mymitsubishi, there is lots of information there, manuals, brochures and even cad drawings. A very good site resourse site. I use the European mymitsubishi myself. There is a Japanese site, but there can be some translation issues. No cost for downloading the information you need. There are some good conversion, and selection tools available there as well. Regards Colandra

First of all the cable you have purchased, is it a dedicated Mitsubishi programming cable ? The normal cable one would purchase is a FX-USB-AW which has the protocol converter at one end. Not all off the shelf protocol converters function as required. With respect to software, there is a GX Works 2 FX version and indeed there was a GX Developer FX version available at some stage which was much cheaper than the full packages. I am in Australia, and I deal with Mitsubishi on a daily bases, and I know both the cable and GX Works software referred to above is available here, so I would be surprised if Mitsubishi Americia does not have access to it. Regards Colandra

Standard USB cable should be fine. There is nothing special about the USB connection. Are you sure all the USB drivers loaded with your programming software. What software are you using

Which PLC are you using

Hello, You need either a SC00 cable or a SC09 cable or a FX-USB-AW cable. Any of these will work with the FX1N PLC. As for software you have several choices. You can use GX Developer, or GX Works 2, GX Works 3 will work as well, because it has GX Works 2 and Gx Developer included in the GX Works 3 package. There is also the original dos based software which is Medoc. This is long dis-banded now, you would need one of the last versions of Medoc produced which did support the FX1N. All these options I have provided will achieve what you need. Regards Colandra

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A couple of questions. What PLC are you using, and what programming software version.