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ChrisK
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Joined: Dec 12, 2022
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Topics: 1 / Replies: 10
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RE: PLC CX9020 with battery Phoenix Contact - The battery discharge early

@arthurppc hey Arthur, going to be really hard to help without more detail. Couple of things you can look at, does the IO use the same power supply? I...

2 years ago
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RE: How to communicate with EK1100 directly without using a Beckhoff CPU?

@iotea well, I have it installed on my host machine, but i have control over that, your admin rights might not let you. I have the intermediate driver...

2 years ago
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RE: How to communicate with EK1100 directly without using a Beckhoff CPU?

@iotea Hey, the EK1100 is a physical media coupler, nothing else, it converts EtherCAT Tx (copper) to EBUS (LVDS) that's all. It has no intelligence o...

2 years ago
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RE: Automatic Hardware Configuration

@joris @twinControls Hi All, i dont know if this will be of interest to you, but i've started a wpf application that begins this process, you can find...

2 years ago
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RE: Setting TcProjectCompare as your Diff/Merge tool for a TwinCAT project Git repo

@rruiter hey, what broke? To set context I've only been using it in anger for 1.5years maybe, maximum. In that time it's been fine for me, I use it as...

2 years ago
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RE: Automatic Hardware Configuration

Thinking you could make the tool so it gets the io, exports into excel, you then apply a naming convention, the tool takes that and creates the gvl, d...

2 years ago
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RE: Automatic Hardware Configuration

@twincontrols thanks, that does make sense, you can use the automation interface to create and open a twincat project, scan io and automatically add a...

2 years ago
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RE: Automatic Hardware Configuration

When you say automatic hardware config what do you mean? The automation interface is a programmatic tool for doing all the operations in TwinCAT visua...

2 years ago
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RE: Changing the compatible device type

The main rule here is that the revision on the EtherCAT device MUST be later than that used in the configuration. In TwinCAT this means the revision o...

2 years ago
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RE: Measuring the scan cycle of PLC

Hi All, Not sure if this is helpful, but I also like to measure the PLC code execution itself, the task related times encapsulate all the task relat...

2 years ago