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Created Date: May 06,2008
Created By: n_spect_r
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I have been programming 05 ' for several years and we now have a customer that wants a visual display of error conditions, not just a reference of what X0, X1 etc mean. So I am trying to set up with an Optimate 440. Very simple display, each X input indicate a safety switch, so for example if X0 is open, the Emergency stop is open. I have configured the OP440 with message 1 "Emergency Stop ", and set base register at 1200. I have tried from the example in the 440 manual to program a line that reads, if NO XO then LD, K1 And on the next line, attached I try to set a box with OUT, V1200. I receive an error that it is an invalid element. This area of programming is new to me, thanks for any help.
Created Date: May 06,2008
Created by: hanziou
Double check your memory map (In DirectSoft, it is under the PLC menu).
The DL440 does not show V1200 as addressable.
Check to make sure you have the DirectSoft set for the right type of CPU.
If you are typing O U T the default for the DirectSoft is to create a coil not an OUT box. You have to hit F7 to make a box. (You probably already know this.)
Created Date: May 06,2008
Created by: n_spect_r
I have been programming 05 ' for several years and we now have a customer that wants a visual display of error conditions, not just a reference of what X0, X1 etc mean. So I am trying to set up with an Optimate 440.
Very simple display, each X input indicate a safety switch, so for example if X0 is open, the Emergency stop is open. I have configured the OP440 with message 1 "Emergency Stop ", and set base register at 1200. I have tried from the example in the 440 manual to program a line that reads, if NO XO then LD, K1 And on the next line, attached I try to set a box with OUT, V1200. I receive an error that it is an invalid element.
This area of programming is new to me, thanks for any help.