I thought I would bring this thread back up because I finally received a solution to the problem I had on this thread. I'm still a little confused on the solution, but I will try to explain.
I had the manufacturer of this press come in and try to upload from the 1756 controller and he had the same problem, "ERROR". He worked on this all day and after several calls and trial and errors he gave up for the day. The next day he decided to do a download to the controller. This was something that I was not comfortable with because I wasn't sure if the file that was being downloaded was the current one. This is why I wanted the manufacturer to do it, so it wouldn't be my butt on the line.
He did the download and it was able to go online with the controller.
I had him save the program to the laptop, so I would have the current program, so I could just go online without having to do the download again. The problem, is when he did the download it wiped out all of our settings. This press has a data bank the holds different settings for each die that we run. The settings are entered through a touchscreen and we had to go through each job and re-enter every number.
Now, if you read through the first thread, you know I've stated that I'm learning this control logix. I'm confused on how the data got reset by doing a download. He also told me that in order to keep the current "matching" program, I would have to REGULARLY back up the program off of the controller. He acted like, if the operator needed to change some data settings on a particular die then this would make the program not match the one I had previously saved on my laptop. Do the data tags,files, or registers hold there values or something when saved to a laptop? I don't know, I'm learning more and more everyday about this control logix and wouldn't doubt any of its capability.
Anybody with the time,
PLEASE explain...
TIM
I had the manufacturer of this press come in and try to upload from the 1756 controller and he had the same problem, "ERROR". He worked on this all day and after several calls and trial and errors he gave up for the day. The next day he decided to do a download to the controller. This was something that I was not comfortable with because I wasn't sure if the file that was being downloaded was the current one. This is why I wanted the manufacturer to do it, so it wouldn't be my butt on the line.
He did the download and it was able to go online with the controller.
I had him save the program to the laptop, so I would have the current program, so I could just go online without having to do the download again. The problem, is when he did the download it wiped out all of our settings. This press has a data bank the holds different settings for each die that we run. The settings are entered through a touchscreen and we had to go through each job and re-enter every number.
Now, if you read through the first thread, you know I've stated that I'm learning this control logix. I'm confused on how the data got reset by doing a download. He also told me that in order to keep the current "matching" program, I would have to REGULARLY back up the program off of the controller. He acted like, if the operator needed to change some data settings on a particular die then this would make the program not match the one I had previously saved on my laptop. Do the data tags,files, or registers hold there values or something when saved to a laptop? I don't know, I'm learning more and more everyday about this control logix and wouldn't doubt any of its capability.
Anybody with the time,
PLEASE explain...
TIM