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Created Date: October 06,2015
Created By: pioplastic
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I have been working with the C-more EA9 series Hmi for quite some time now and it would be nice to have the C-more read Do-more memory blocks without having to transfer the data into memory that C-more can directly access. Example: Create a memory block of 100 (40) character strings (Test ) in the Do-more plc. To read any of the data in any of the strings created, you need to read the data in the plc and transfer it to a short string to be able to access it in C-more. Move Test to SS10 The C-more cannot access the Test string directly but it can access the SS10 string. The problem I have is that there are only 128 SS string structures available and I need many more. Does anybody have a way to access the block structures or a way to increase the available SS structures?
Created Date: October 06,2015
Created by: Mike Nash
I can set a block size of 2048 (0-2047) for SS in DMD System Configuration:Memory Configuration.
I don't know if C-more can address them all though.
Note: I can set 3055 for size, but it gives an error closing. It will take higher than 2048 but it looks to be bumping the max memory size limit up at the top of the window. Strings look to use lots of memory.
Created Date: October 07,2015
Created by: Do-more PE
Srings do use a lot of memory.
We are working with both vendors to get C-more and Do-more to be able to handle user memory. In the mean time, as Mr. Nash suggested, you can increase the size of the built in memory types. To gain more memory, you can also decrease the size other memory types that you don't use as many elements of.
Created Date: October 08,2015
Created by: pioplastic
C-more and Do-more
Thanks for the input. It looks like the C-more can read the expanded blocks for SS. I set it to 1024 and C-more can access the last string. I can't wait til C-more can read the user defined blocks. Would save lots of extra code and shorten scan time.
Created Date: October 06,2015
Created by: pioplastic
I have been working with the C-more EA9 series Hmi for quite some time now and it would be nice to have the C-more read Do-more memory blocks without having to transfer the data into memory that C-more can directly access. Example:
Create a memory block of 100 (40) character strings (Test ) in the Do-more plc.
To read any of the data in any of the strings created, you need to read the data in the plc and transfer it to a short string to be able to access it in C-more.
Move Test to SS10
The C-more cannot access the Test string directly but it can access the SS10 string.
The problem I have is that there are only 128 SS string structures available and I need many more.
Does anybody have a way to access the block structures or a way to increase the available SS structures?