Does anybody knows how can I get this boxes in Argentina?
thanks
Jorge Monsalvo
IVControl S.R.L.
Argentina
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From: "Neil Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: Upgrading Foxboro Boxes
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> FYI,
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> Refurbished Sun Ultra30 boxes can be had for about $3,500 and Ultra5 for
> about $1,200.
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> "Hicks, Gaylon F."
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> You can pick up a refurbished SUN SPARC 5 180 MHz box for about $1000, or
a
> 110 MHz for about $600. This is the faster 51B box, and the 180 MHz
should
> be pretty snappy. We upgraded from 51A to 51B (old 85 MHz boxes) and saw
a
> big improvement. I don't know exactly what else you need, but make sure
> you
> get a TurboGX frame buffer card (I know these are Foxboro OEM and will
> work). Also, load up on memory - 128 MB minimum.
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> I know not the legalities involved, but technically this will work.
>
> Gaylon Hicks
> TVA - Browns Ferry NP
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> From: Davis, Robert N.[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:02 PM
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> Subject: FW: Upgrading Foxboro Boxes
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> This note came to me from our Decatur plant. Any suggestions?
>
> We are looking at a problem that is going to be experienced by other
> plants
> in the future. We have a Foxboro I/A system here on our Cogen plant.
> We have
> AW51s (A series) and V6.1 software. We recently installed the OSI PI
> system
> onto one of our AW51s. What was already a slow box has become almost
> unusable. We have received a lot of complaints from the plant
> operators -
> especially about the graphic call up speed.
>
> We have talked about upgrading the boxes to the latest AW51s (series
> D or E)
> to speed things up. Unfortunately we are being quoted $100,000 by
> Foxboro.
> What makes this worse is that we know we can buy the boxes from Sun
> direct
> for 30% of the Foxboro price and Foxboro are charging us $50,000 for
> software licenses. Foxboro are not being very helpful at this time.
> When we
> proposed buying the boxes from Sun, Foxboro refused to support these
> boxes.
>
> We are wondering if it is technically possible to buy the new boxes
> from Sun
> and try to load the existing software on ourselves. This would mean
> that we
> are using the same software licenses but should get a better
> performance. We
> have asked Foxboro about this and been told that it is not possible
> because
> we need to buy new licenses from Sun. We have asked Sun about this
> and they
> have told us that we do not need new licenses but they do not know
> if this
> would work.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts/experience in this matter. Is this
> possible or
> are we missing something somewhere?
>
> All comments gratefully received
>
>
> Bob Davis
> Process Control Engineer
> 765-477-5317---Fax 765-474-9036
> E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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