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Created Date: July 04,2004
Created By: chip
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I am having some problems with loading recipe values to variables in the DL06. When I change values in the plc I enter them as signed integers and let the wonderful value dialog box convert for me. When I create a value in the recipe, I don't seem to be able to be able to enter a signed integer or a bcd16 or 32 and map it to my v4125. It will only let me enter 5 places? I know I am doing something wrong, what is it?
Created Date: July 04,2004
Created by: chip
I am having some problems with loading recipe values to variables in the DL06. When I change values in the plc I enter them as signed integers and let the wonderful value dialog box convert for me. When I create a value in the recipe, I don't seem to be able to be able to enter a signed integer or a bcd16 or 32 and map it to my v4125. It will only let me enter 5 places? I know I am doing something wrong, what is it?
Created Date: July 04,2004
Created by: franji1
Make sure your MMI that is doing the recipe edit/update is configured for SIGNED 16 BIT DECIMAL (a.k.a. signed integer, and 2's complement). This should allow for values from -32768 to +32767. It sounds like it is configured for UNsigned 16 bit decimal (range of 0 to 65535). If you can enter a 5 digit number of 65535, and it shows up in DirectSoft as -1 (signed integer), then that is exactly what is going wrong (65535 equals FFFF hexadecimal which equals -1 signed integer).
Created Date: July 05,2004
Created by: chip
Thanks. I guess my problem was that I put it in as bcd and could not get the recipe instance to edit. I created a new instance and everything works great.