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Subject: | Re: Ethernet/IP Device Support and CompactLogix |
From: | Kay-Uwe Kasemir <[email protected]> |
To: | John Dobbins <[email protected]> |
Cc: | EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>, John Barley <[email protected]> |
Date: | Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:40:56 -0400 |
I have just used the EPICS Ethernet/IP device support to talk to an Allen Bradley CompactLogix (i.e. not ControlLogix) module.
So far I have written a bit to a DINT and read a PLC boolean. The only trouble encountered was an error/warning message on start-up:
drvEtherIP: launch scan task for PLC 'compactlogixtest' EIP_startup: cannot determine target's identity
Before I go any further with this test I wanted to ask if there is any chance of EPICS community support for CompactLogix - OR - should I send back this loaner, tell my colleagues that EPICS only supports ControlLogix, and turn my attention to other tasks?Well, the beauty of the community is that several other people might be very interested in CompactLogix
This test came about because a colleague was interested in CompactLogix as it appeared to have lower capital costs. I gave them the spiel about EPICS device support only being demonstrated to work with ControlLogix but said if they could get a loaner I would give it a try.