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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: M4 Serial and TCP Modbus tutorial using an ADC DL06 PLC

« on: December 30, 2014, 03:20:19 PM »

Scott,

Thank you for creating the modbus tutorial. It has been extremely helpful. I'd like to display a 32 bit accumulating timer value in a DRO. I've converted the value from BCD to binary in the PLC and am reading the two registers in Mach.  I then plan to use WriteReg("iRegs0/doubletimerval", ?); This is where I am stuck. I am not sure how to format the write register command so that it feeds timer1 and timer2 into the Mach register as a double word. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again. 

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Brains Development / Brain Modulus Function

« on: November 04, 2014, 01:30:46 PM »

I am having trouble getting the modulo operator to work in a brain.  I would like to activate an output for .5 seconds each time my machine moves a specified distance.  This output will control an oiler. I can’t get any value from the formula in the brain. It always outputs 0. Hopefully someone can tell me if my syntax is wrong or if there is a better way to do this. Thanks.