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Duncan
@duncan
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Joined: Sep 22, 2022
Last seen: Mar 16, 2023
Topics: 7 / Replies: 8
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RE: Cumulative downtime stats

This is what I have hacked together so far: stats_timer(IN:=NOT stats_timer.Q, PT:=LTIME#36_500D); // timer runs for 100 years (then resets to 0) ...

2 years ago
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RE: Detecting low voltage on PLC bus

Thanks! Yeah, general error would cover my needs. Will look into this!

2 years ago
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RE: Passing a structure between PLCs via ADS using symbolic addressing

@benhar-devThank you Ben, this is perfect! Cheers Duncan

2 years ago
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RE: TwinCAT - using a single input link to read 18 individual bytes from an EtherCAT slave

@rruiter I'll have a play with this when I get a chance. Could I map the entire 'Box' if my structure includes WcState and InfoData?Although even ju...

2 years ago
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RE: TwinCAT - using a single input link to read 18 individual bytes from an EtherCAT slave

@twincontrols Thanks for this. I had stumbled across the pragmas, but felt they were bypassing the whole purpose of the symbolic IO linking that exi...

2 years ago
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RE: TwinCAT Ignition SCADA comms

@twincontrols, excellent, thanks for that! CheersDuncan

2 years ago
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RE: SD cards in Beckhoff PLCs

Thanks IOTea. Looks like CSVs can be read / written directly to/from the sd card. Just having a bit of a dig, and it appears that all files are stor...

2 years ago
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RE: ADS client comms - noob questions

Thanks Roald!Will stick with that approach then. On further investigation, it seems like having TwinCAT running on the same PC is causing the problem,...

2 years ago
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