Category: General

Question: Can I use a driver from Elipse SCADA with E3, and vice-versa? Solution: Yes, you can, because the supervisory being used does not interfere with driver’s usage.

Question: How many licenses are needed to communicate with a network with five PLCs via Ethernet? Solution:To do so, you will need one license per driver object in the application,…

Question: How can I generate daily logs for Elipse’s drivers? Solution: With drivers using IOKit (version 1.10 or higher), just locate the log’s name (at Log to File: on Logging…

Question: How can I disable the message Abort in Error of the driver at Elipse SCADA? Solution: To do so, select the driver at the Organizer and uncheck the option…

Question: Is it possible to establish communication with Siemens’ PLC S7-300 by using Siemens’ “softnet” software? Solution: Yes, it is possible. The “softnet” software works as an OPC server, and…

Question: How can I use the driver to visualize the communication status? Solution: In the driver’s folder, there is an icon called TagBrowser. This object has several I/O drivers from…

Question: How does Driver starts in listen mode option behave when enabled? Solution: Listen Mode happens when the driver is able to ‘listen’ to the connection of another master/slave. The…

Question: Can I use two PLCs working in redundancy with the same driver? Solution: Yes. To do so, you must enable the option BackUpAddress on IOKit’s Ethernet tab, and insert…

Question: How can I establish communication between Elipse’s supervisory systems (Elipse SCADA or E3) and the device via Profibus DP protocol? Solution: To establish communication with a Profibus network, it…