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Created Date: June 04,2013
Created By: JimG
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I have a glue unloading station for off loading of tanker trucks. It is run with a 250-1 processor and a 6-inch C-more panel. The panel is set with DEV001 as Automation Direct PLC. I have set DEV002 as a SLC-500 and am using some data from it for one screen which shows tank levels from another system. Everything is communicating through an ethernet unmanaged switch and the IP addresses are similar (192.168.205.50, .51, .52...etc.) We have recently added a process and I need to set up a DEV003 on this touch panel. However, the protocol for this device will be Contrologix ethernet. This is fine except this process is using different IP addresses. (192.168.20.1). My question is, can the C-more panel differentiate between the different IP addresses and still display the different data from each PLC it is communicating with? In short.... DEV001 IP address 192.168.205.50 DEV002 IP address 192.168.205.51 DEV003 IP address 192.168.20.1 Touch Panel IP address 192.168.205.52 Will the C-more communicate with DEV003? If not, what needs to be done to establish communication?
Created Date: June 04,2013
Created by: dnj
Easiest way is to set your Cmore panel subnet mask in the Ethernet settings to 255.255.0.0, this allow you to communicate to both subnets.
Created Date: June 04,2013
Created by: JimG
I have a glue unloading station for off loading of tanker trucks. It is run with a 250-1 processor and a 6-inch C-more panel. The panel is set with DEV001 as Automation Direct PLC. I have set DEV002 as a SLC-500 and am using some data from it for one screen which shows tank levels from another system. Everything is communicating through an ethernet unmanaged switch and the IP addresses are similar (192.168.205.50, .51, .52...etc.) We have recently added a process and I need to set up a DEV003 on this touch panel. However, the protocol for this device will be Contrologix ethernet. This is fine except this process is using different IP addresses. (192.168.20.1). My question is, can the C-more panel differentiate between the different IP addresses and still display the different data from each PLC it is communicating with?
In short....
DEV001 IP address 192.168.205.50
DEV002 IP address 192.168.205.51
DEV003 IP address 192.168.20.1
Touch Panel IP address 192.168.205.52
Will the C-more communicate with DEV003? If not, what needs to be done to establish communication?