FAHoutdoors (Customer) asked a question.
I really like that the range max and min on these can be set by a tag now, but could we use a floating point number on them? only having integer values limits the usefulness of the min and max being tag based pretty heavily for me personally.
I use these gauges usually to show real floating point numbers so I always have to convert those numbers to an integer value usually of 0 to 1000 and then put the real value over the 0 and 1000 on the screen or turn off the tick value option entirely. I make a point to do absolutely ALL scaling in PLC vs the touch screen, just seems to work better for me for troubleshooting.
Not as big a deal for me but it appears the way analog gauges worked and rendered previously is different then in V9, which means you have to resize and move each gauge from the older program. Thankfully I won't have a ton of conversion work in this regard but others might.
Also an option the make the band thicker would be nice, the older V5-V8 bands all looked thicker and the V9 seem to be thinner in all cases.
We had not noticed this. We will let the developers know.
@FAHoutdoors (Customer) If the tag for the meter is Floating Point, then the ranges can be floating point.
Fantastic! I tried to input a floating point number and got the (must be integer) warning and just assumed it worked the same way with a tag. Great change! Love the constant development and improvement on these products.