Absolutely love the design, John. An engineering art. Thanks for sharing. Just excellent!

Dan

Problem solved. Was wrong communication settings in the PLC.

Thanks,
Dan

Strange thing is that I am able to read outputs from the VFD using same Brain. Then why it wouldn't read from the PLC? Again, what's most strange is that I can read the PLC inputs using the Test window in Mach3. Only doesn't work fro a Brain.

Dan

An Atmel processor (on an Arduino MEGA development board) is used for data acquisition only and the data (sensor reads) that is collected on each run is sent over a serial connection to a program on the PC for the calculations.

Is it a commercial program or some code of your own?

Dan

Hi
I tried the M11P1 and E1P0 commands in every way I could think of-No luck
I guess thr SS doesn't recognize it - Bo Ho
Can you help me with the Dir output from a Phantom axis - I could use A,B and C

Thanks again
Jack

Hi Jack,

Download the latest SS plugin. Support for M11P/M10P has been added.

Dan

Hi Zafar,

Thank you!! Never knew this... he..he

Dan

Hi Scott,

I am using that document and it's very helpful! Thank you for writing it.

Not sure what you mean, though. Please see screenshot showing how I am doing the input for the Brain shown above.

Dan

Hi Zafar,

Great screens! Really well made! How do yo change the font of the DRO's? I downloaded your files, but here it doesn't show that font. I saw you included the font file and I did install it, but it still doesn't show in the DRO's.

Did you use MachScreen?

Dan

Have a strange problem. For some reason I can't read a PLC output using a Brain. Can write to a PLC with a Brain, but can't read. It reads fine using the Modbus test window in Mach3, but not from within a Brain. Any idea what could be the reason? Attached screenshots of the Modbus settings and the Brain.

Thanks,
Dan

Hi Peter,

Thanks a lot for the help.

Dan