Question: Which driver can I use to communicate with S7-200/S7-300/S7-400/S7-1200 PLCs? Solution: Elipse Software has developed several I/O drivers for Siemens devices, and the most widely used with S7 series…
Question: What driver should I use with Rockwell’s CompactLogix? Solution: With this, you must use ABCIP driver (Ethernet/IP – CIP protocol). You can download it directly at Elipse’s website.
Question: After reestablishing the communication lost between the supervisory and several relays, why is the driver not able to access data from the relay’s buffer? Solution: When the communication between…
Question: Can Elipse’s supervisory systems send information to a mobile phone? Solution: Yes, they can. This can be accomplished in one of the following ways: 1) Use Elipse’s GSM driver,…
Question: How can I enable the Driver DNP 3.0 Master to send unsolicited messages? Solution: To do so, you must enable the Enable Unsolicited on Startup option in the Driver’s…
Question: What is better for communication performance purposes: one single block with 1,100 elements, or the same number of elements split into smaller blocks? Solution: Support to superblocks has been…
Question: When is the OnCommError event fired? Solution: This event occurs whenever a reading or writing error is detected by the I/O Driver.
Question: Does ELO-2180 driver enable reading mass memory? Solution: No, it does not. ELO-2180 driver only enables reading instant variables from the user’s output. To read mass memory, you must…
Question: What is the purpose of the Event buffering while not connected property? Solution: When a slave driver is disconnected from the master driver, it will by default, save the…
Question: Which objects and variations must be used to read a double point? Solution: To do so, you can use these objects and variations: Object 3 Variation 1 – Double…