Bar (Customer) asked a question.
Configured Analog Input Range is not showing up in Simulator in Do-More Designer.
Perhaps someone can give me some guidance. Working offline, after I configured an analog input, WX0 in BX-DM1E-36ED23, I notice that that information is not showing up in the Simulator. Configured input is 0-5VDC, 14bit (Range 1-16383) and I have RX scaled also. When I look in the simulator I only see a 12 bit range (4095). Also, in a data table it is not showing up with the configured information either (WX0 or RX0) when I adjust the slide bar in the simulator . So the question is, how do I properly save the configured information so it can be used? Thanks -Bar
Hi Bar,
The simulator will still work but you need to monitor the values in the data view.
You will not get the full range using the simulator input for WX0 but you should see the value in RX0 changing.
Regards,
Garry
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If you want the simulator to "correctly" show RX0, simply use the SCALE instruction, and have WX0, 0-4095, scale to RX0, 0-16.
Thanks for the help everyone. So I will need to disable this scale function when running on the actual PLC and the real scaling for RX0 will be based on the configured analog input on the actual hardware? Also, any reason why RX0, before adding the scale instruction, would default to -2 min to +3 max? (I had no other scaling etc for that prior excluding on the hardware analog configuration). Thanks Again -Bar
You don't really have to turn the SCALE instruction off in the real PLC, you could use it instead of the built in scaling. That way it would be adjustable at runtime. Not sure why you would be getting the -2 to +3, also not sure how you were getting 2 values. Was it moving continously? Then something else was writing a value to RX0.