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Created Date: April 22,2004
Created By: marksji
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OK, I 've been using the ez-touch screens with ez-ethernet cards for a while now and I 've got a question. What does it mean when the screen shows NO ECOMS DEFINED When this happens the ez-touch remains on the boot screen and I can not communicate with the ez-touch via ethernet from the programming software. NetEdit "sees " the network card just fine and I can talk to the ez-touch via RS232 just fine, but I can't do anything via the ethernet, programming, plc comm, nothing... I also get the following from time to time (it switches to this for a second or two and then goes back to no ecoms defined) DRIVER CAN't ACCESS ADAPTER SHARED MEMORY Anyone got any ideas?
Created Date: April 22,2004
Created by: marksji
OK, I 've been using the ez-touch screens with ez-ethernet cards for a while now and I 've got a question.
What does it mean when the screen shows
NO ECOMS DEFINED
When this happens the ez-touch remains on the boot screen and I can not communicate with the ez-touch via ethernet from the programming software.
NetEdit "sees " the network card just fine and I can talk to the ez-touch via RS232 just fine, but I can't do anything via the ethernet, programming, plc comm, nothing...
I also get the following from time to time (it switches to this for a second or two and then goes back to no ecoms defined)
DRIVER CAN't ACCESS ADAPTER SHARED MEMORY
Anyone got any ideas?
Created Date: April 23,2004
Created by: marksji
Another question. Anyone know why programming an EZ-TOUCH eats 100% of my CPU? I can't imagine what its doing to kill my processor that badly.
Created Date: April 26,2004
Created by: GKiser
Originally posted by marksji:
What does it mean when the screen shows
NO ECOMS DEFINED
That error message means that the panel no longer has a configuration that is pointing to an ECOM. To correct you will have to download the EZ Touch project (which contains the ECOM's address).
Originally posted by marksji:
I also get the following from time to time (it switches to this for a second or two and then goes back to no ecoms defined)
DRIVER CAN't ACCESS ADAPTER SHARED MEMORY
This error is fatal in that the EZ Touch panel is not getting data from the EZ Ethernet adapter within 2 seconds.
(1) EZ Ethernet could be overloaded trying to process read retries and it degrades to this, or...
(2) Try increasing the timeout value (e.g. 500ms) for the node in question, or...
(3) Try minimizing the PLC scan times (e.g. put it in the STOP mode) and see if it improves.
Hope this helps!
Greg Kiser
Host Engineering, Inc.
Created Date: April 26,2004
Created by: marksji
Originally posted by GKiser:
That error message means that the panel no longer has a configuration that is pointing to an ECOM. To correct you will have to download the EZ Touch project (which contains the ECOM's address).
When I load my project into the screen (using RS232 because I can't access it via the ECOM) this doesn't always go away... sometimes this fixes it, sometimes it doesn't.