AlignPLC
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Hello all I need some expert help here. I'm going to dump a whole lot of information that hopefully helps relay my dilemma.
I have an SLC 5/03 CPU (1747 L532 interface mod) with several other I/O modules (1746 IA and OA16 modules)on that rack that also use a 1746-C7 over to another rack that has mostly thermocouple modules and this whole setup runs the chemical auto line of the company I work for with other functions of the plant, i.e. scrubbers, air agitation, push air, etc. tied into this. Our main functions on the auto line, mainly auto and semi-auto, currently don't function properly, in fact almost not at all. We are down to a very basic manual operation of our line where our operators have to push the fwd joystick fwd for both fwd and rev operations with a toggle switch that I myself wired up from the AC drive to get them running so parts can go through. Our line is hooked up to a plc, a distance meter, an ICS 5000 to be specific, that tracks our hoist that also sends a signal to our vfd, a 1336e-brf15-an-en AC drive, thats supposed to give control to the drive to run the hoist. So all three, the plc, the drive and the distance meter are linked. I am currently, simply, trying to download now an updated version of the program given to me by the tech who programmed this years ago before my time and I must be doing something wrong. The reason I want to download this now is because I believe I downloaded the wrong, older version of the program and even if its not the cause of the problem I will feel much better with the proper one on there. The program currently on the cpu is titled "Bldg 2 Auto Line" and the new one is simply titled "MTi.RSS" and apparently something must not be configured as everytime I perform the download (and I do mean download) it seems it works but upon performing an upload or just going online first thing, the older program is what it shows on the top next to "RSLogix 500." I have updated our version of RSLogix to v12.0 as instructed by the tech who gave me the updated program. I have gone through RSLinx and configured my driver, I have configured my I/O list under "I/O Configuration," I have checked to make sure my driver under TOOLS>SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS matches with the driver I set up. For instance it would say under system comms that the driver in "current settings" is AB_DF1-1 but the one I started and configured on RSLinx was AB_DF1-8 and that's what I changed it to. Maybe I'm doing something wrong there? I have opened a ticket with RW but they are taking forever on getting back to me. A response a day to be exact. What could it be that I'm not able to perform the download properly? It never gives me an error or unsuccessful message so at first I thought I accomplished it, but it doesn't seem that way. Are there memory protect switches on the slc 5/03? Or maybe I missed something on the config side?
Sorry for the length of my dilemma here but I hope it makes sense and someone can maybe give me something here that will stick.
I have an SLC 5/03 CPU (1747 L532 interface mod) with several other I/O modules (1746 IA and OA16 modules)on that rack that also use a 1746-C7 over to another rack that has mostly thermocouple modules and this whole setup runs the chemical auto line of the company I work for with other functions of the plant, i.e. scrubbers, air agitation, push air, etc. tied into this. Our main functions on the auto line, mainly auto and semi-auto, currently don't function properly, in fact almost not at all. We are down to a very basic manual operation of our line where our operators have to push the fwd joystick fwd for both fwd and rev operations with a toggle switch that I myself wired up from the AC drive to get them running so parts can go through. Our line is hooked up to a plc, a distance meter, an ICS 5000 to be specific, that tracks our hoist that also sends a signal to our vfd, a 1336e-brf15-an-en AC drive, thats supposed to give control to the drive to run the hoist. So all three, the plc, the drive and the distance meter are linked. I am currently, simply, trying to download now an updated version of the program given to me by the tech who programmed this years ago before my time and I must be doing something wrong. The reason I want to download this now is because I believe I downloaded the wrong, older version of the program and even if its not the cause of the problem I will feel much better with the proper one on there. The program currently on the cpu is titled "Bldg 2 Auto Line" and the new one is simply titled "MTi.RSS" and apparently something must not be configured as everytime I perform the download (and I do mean download) it seems it works but upon performing an upload or just going online first thing, the older program is what it shows on the top next to "RSLogix 500." I have updated our version of RSLogix to v12.0 as instructed by the tech who gave me the updated program. I have gone through RSLinx and configured my driver, I have configured my I/O list under "I/O Configuration," I have checked to make sure my driver under TOOLS>SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS matches with the driver I set up. For instance it would say under system comms that the driver in "current settings" is AB_DF1-1 but the one I started and configured on RSLinx was AB_DF1-8 and that's what I changed it to. Maybe I'm doing something wrong there? I have opened a ticket with RW but they are taking forever on getting back to me. A response a day to be exact. What could it be that I'm not able to perform the download properly? It never gives me an error or unsuccessful message so at first I thought I accomplished it, but it doesn't seem that way. Are there memory protect switches on the slc 5/03? Or maybe I missed something on the config side?
Sorry for the length of my dilemma here but I hope it makes sense and someone can maybe give me something here that will stick.