Dear fellow engineers,

Does anybody have any experience with the following:

Data blocks of type "REAL" have ocasionally parameter "HSCO1" at zero, 
despite its configured parameter that is non-zero. This results in VALUE=0 
whenever the VALUE is modified to a non-zero value, e.g from "select" or from 
other applications. It occurs every now and then, 5-10 times a day on a 
population of 325 REAL-blocks in one CP40. We have not been able to relate 
this problem to configurator actions, checkpointing, upstream connections, 
gets, sets and so on.
When noticed, we recover by keying "enter" on the block's parameter in the 
control configurator (in the configurator the parameters are still in tact), 
followed by "DONE".
Up to now the problem seems to be limited to CP40, CP30 seems to operate 
properly.

We apply those parameters for all kind of process settings, therefore this 
phenomenon can be very harmful.

Of course you can think of work-arounds, but none of them have the advantage 
of the functional name and block-descriptor that you can assign to each 
block. The number of REAL-blocks we apply is too high to be able to replace 
them by other type of blocks, not to mention the amount of application work 
this will result in. And above all, this is an elementary function that 
should operate properly.

Additional data:
CP40 type a Hosted by AP50 rev 4.3
Eeprom revision level 1.2

Thanks in advance,

Groeten,
Cees Esser
BELLT-GCA, the Netherlands.

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