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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: zarzul on October 19, 2007, 05:44:38 PM
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Well I am stuck and not sure where to go.
I have a DL06 plc talking to Mach3 via serial modbus. It seems to work just fine with a few exceptions in Turn, but when I enable serial modbus plugin, I can't seem to toggle outputs on the plc anymore or see plc inputs change. Do I need a brain for this? Not a brain brain but a Brain program, that reads the modbus address and ports that over to the input, along with a brain output that takes a mach3 output and ports that over to the modbus via the brain.
Arnie
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Arnie, others can correct me if I'm wrong, but the tick box for Enable modbus plugin is for a specific brand. I think it's for the Homann modbus. You can still use a plc, just don't enable that particular setting.
Whacko
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Arnie,
Did you get this one figured out? I am having the same issue, except mine WAS working, and now I can't get it going. Very frustrating.
Roger
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as far as I can tell you have to use a brain after you configure the inputs, I haven't had any time to work on this, but the go to guy is poppabear.
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Confirmed;
The tick box for Enable modbus plugin is for the Homann modbus via serial. It should say than directly. . It kills the TCP functionality. Also, it appears Brains must be used to map Mach3 Input/output to TCP modbus. In the later version Mach3 i.e. 3.043.066. The ports & pins mapping does not seem to work.