Re: CAE suggestions
Hear Hear Freddy, I 'd like to see ladder logic documentable in CAE as well. I would also like to be able to edit these features in CAE too. In general I think that SFC is not very friendly when it comes to documentation and printing. Regards, Gabriel. Freddy Why [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/29/2001 01:56 PM Please respond to Foxboro DCS Mail List To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:CAE suggestions I am using FCAE version 4.0. One of the enhancement mentioned is SFC_ST support. However when you try to look at or print SFC_ST listing it comes up with the error message SFC configurator not loaded I believe this is supported on an AW70. Seems at bit of a costly exercise just to document SFC code, as this means I need to purchase an AW70 licence + SFC package for NT. All I need is the ability to document SFC online from a PC with no I/A on it connected to an an AW51D. Regards, Freddy Why
FoxView 99.2.1 trends
We just got done upgrading all of our WP's to FoxView 99.2.1. For some reason, the on-line trend configuration tool was changed in this version to add 2 more steps to the process of calling up a historical trend. In version 99.2, you right-clicked the trend, clicked on the week, day, or hour button to set the time span of the trend, and hit OK, and you got the trend. In this version, you have to click on a Duration Settings... button, click on the week, day, or hour, then click OK, then click on a completely useless dialog box that offers the choice of the highest and lowest possible Scan rate based on your selection of the time span, then click OK again, and finally get the trend. Is there any way to speed this process up with FoxView settings so that our console guys can bypass all these steps and just get a historical trend quickly? Why does it ask you for scan rate now? It used to be, whichever time span you picked determined the scan rate. This worked well, and nobody ever requested a change in any of the International Users Groups I ever went to. Often times, there isn't even a valid lower scan rate, so that choice is greyed out and you must select the upper scan rate anyway. It seems to me that if someone wanted a choice of scan rates, you could make a button just for them, instead of forcing everyone to go through a separate dialog box, which often only has one choice. Any ideas out there, other than re-installing FoxView 99.2? Tim --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FBM1, HART 275 and Rosemont 3051 Transmitter
Our instrument guys are having trouble communicating with a HART 275 communicator to a Rosemont 3051 level transmitter while connected to the Foxboro I/A FBM1 input point. The instrument is being loop powered by the FBM1 (P and P+). The only way we can get it to communicate is to put a 250 ohm resistor across the pair of wires (parallel). This allows us to communicate with the transmitter but we will not want to do this will the instrument is in service. I have tried this with several different HART 275s, FBM1s and 3051 level transmitters. If we disconnect the loop from I/A and use an Altec to power the loop, everything works as it should. This eliminates our cabling as a problem, in my humble opinion. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a solution to allow the communicator to work without a resistor across the pair of wires? Rory Loupe The Dow Chemical Company LHC-3 P.O. Box 150, Building 6801 21255 highway 1, Building 6801 Plaquemine, LA 70765-0150 USA Plaquemine, LA 70764 USA Phone: 225.353-6409 Fax: 225.353.6968 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FBM1, HART 275 and Rosemont 3051 Transmitter
We have and continue to experience this. We are having to go as high as 500 Ohms because of the low resistance in the FBMs. Our instrument guys connect the HART communicator across the resistor which is hooked in series not parallel. We found some terminal strips (from Phoenix Contact I believe) that have modular resistor inserts to avoid having to splice resistors inline. Rosemount states that at least 250 Ohms of loop resistance is required for the HART communicator to communicate to the smart transmitters. I believe they were assuming a certain amount of resistance at the input modules when they stated that also. Maybe some other DCS's have higher input resistance and it is not a problem. Foxboro's is pretty low. Chad Airhart Senior Instrument, Electrical Control Systems Engineer Equistar Chemicals, LP. Victoria, TX Wk. (361) 572-2568 Pgr. (361) 270-2214 alpha messaging at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fx. (361) 572-2541 -Original Message- From: Loupe, Rory (RJ) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FBM1, HART 275 and Rosemont 3051 Transmitter Our instrument guys are having trouble communicating with a HART 275 communicator to a Rosemont 3051 level transmitter while connected to the Foxboro I/A FBM1 input point. The instrument is being loop powered by the FBM1 (P and P+). The only way we can get it to communicate is to put a 250 ohm resistor across the pair of wires (parallel). This allows us to communicate with the transmitter but we will not want to do this will the instrument is in service. I have tried this with several different HART 275s, FBM1s and 3051 level transmitters. If we disconnect the loop from I/A and use an Altec to power the loop, everything works as it should. This eliminates our cabling as a problem, in my humble opinion. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a solution to allow the communicator to work without a resistor across the pair of wires? Rory Loupe The Dow Chemical Company LHC-3 P.O. Box 150, Building 6801 21255 highway 1, Building 6801 Plaquemine, LA 70765-0150 USA Plaquemine, LA 70764 USA Phone: 225.353-6409 Fax: 225.353.6968 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FoxView 99.2.1 trends
Hi Tim, Another way of adjusting a trend is by right-clicking on the date/time of a paused trend. A dialog box should pop up that may give you the functionality you need without the hassle of the large do-everything dialog. Of course if you have a lot of trends that don't include the date time at the bottom this won't work. Good Luck, Stephen -Original Message- From: Lowell, Tim: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:20 AM To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List' Subject: FoxView 99.2.1 trends We just got done upgrading all of our WP's to FoxView 99.2.1. For some reason, the on-line trend configuration tool was changed in this version to add 2 more steps to the process of calling up a historical trend. In version 99.2, you right-clicked the trend, clicked on the week, day, or hour button to set the time span of the trend, and hit OK, and you got the trend. In this version, you have to click on a Duration Settings... button, click on the week, day, or hour, then click OK, then click on a completely useless dialog box that offers the choice of the highest and lowest possible Scan rate based on your selection of the time span, then click OK again, and finally get the trend. Is there any way to speed this process up with FoxView settings so that our console guys can bypass all these steps and just get a historical trend quickly? Why does it ask you for scan rate now? It used to be, whichever time span you picked determined the scan rate. This worked well, and nobody ever requested a change in any of the International Users Groups I ever went to. Often times, there isn't even a valid lower scan rate, so that choice is greyed out and you must select the upper scan rate anyway. It seems to me that if someone wanted a choice of scan rates, you could make a button just for them, instead of forcing everyone to go through a separate dialog box, which often only has one choice. Any ideas out there, other than re-installing FoxView 99.2? Tim --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FoxView 99.2.1 trends
OOPS! I meant to say LEFT-CLICKING on the date/time of a paused trend. Stephen -Original Message- From: Murray, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:30 AM To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List' Subject: RE: FoxView 99.2.1 trends Hi Tim, Another way of adjusting a trend is by right-clicking on the date/time of a paused trend. A dialog box should pop up that may give you the functionality you need without the hassle of the large do-everything dialog. Of course if you have a lot of trends that don't include the date time at the bottom this won't work. Good Luck, Stephen -Original Message- From: Lowell, Tim: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:20 AM To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List' Subject: FoxView 99.2.1 trends We just got done upgrading all of our WP's to FoxView 99.2.1. For some reason, the on-line trend configuration tool was changed in this version to add 2 more steps to the process of calling up a historical trend. In version 99.2, you right-clicked the trend, clicked on the week, day, or hour button to set the time span of the trend, and hit OK, and you got the trend. In this version, you have to click on a Duration Settings... button, click on the week, day, or hour, then click OK, then click on a completely useless dialog box that offers the choice of the highest and lowest possible Scan rate based on your selection of the time span, then click OK again, and finally get the trend. Is there any way to speed this process up with FoxView settings so that our console guys can bypass all these steps and just get a historical trend quickly? Why does it ask you for scan rate now? It used to be, whichever time span you picked determined the scan rate. This worked well, and nobody ever requested a change in any of the International Users Groups I ever went to. Often times, there isn't even a valid lower scan rate, so that choice is greyed out and you must select the upper scan rate anyway. It seems to me that if someone wanted a choice of scan rates, you could make a button just for them, instead of forcing everyone to go through a separate dialog box, which often only has one choice. Any ideas out there, other than re-installing FoxView 99.2? Tim --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FBM1, HART 275 and Rosemont 3051 Transmitter
We have had this problem as well. As Chad said, it exists because the dropping resistor on Foxboro FBMs is 50 ohms, which does not give enough loop resistance for the HART handheld to read the superimposed digital signal. I do not believe Foxboro offers a 250-ohm dropping resistor option (I asked once) on the classic (100-series) FBMs. I hope they do on the 200-series. Every other system I've runn across (Allen-Bradley, Triconex, Honeywell) use 250-ohm resistors. Corey Clingo Sr. Engineer BASF Corporation Airhart, Chad M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/30/2001 11:00:01 AM Please respond to Foxboro DCS Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List' Foxboro cc: Subject: RE: FBM1, HART 275 and Rosemont 3051 Transmitter We have and continue to experience this. We are having to go as high as 500 Ohms because of the low resistance in the FBMs. Our instrument guys connect the HART communicator across the resistor which is hooked in series not parallel. We found some terminal strips (from Phoenix Contact I believe) that have modular resistor inserts to avoid having to splice resistors inline. Rosemount states that at least 250 Ohms of loop resistance is required for the HART communicator to communicate to the smart transmitters. I believe they were assuming a certain amount of resistance at the input modules when they stated that also. Maybe some other DCS's have higher input resistance and it is not a problem. Foxboro's is pretty low. Chad Airhart Senior Instrument, Electrical Control Systems Engineer Equistar Chemicals, LP. Victoria, TX Wk. (361) 572-2568 Pgr. (361) 270-2214 alpha messaging at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fx. (361) 572-2541 -Original Message- From: Loupe, Rory (RJ) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FBM1, HART 275 and Rosemont 3051 Transmitter Our instrument guys are having trouble communicating with a HART 275 communicator to a Rosemont 3051 level transmitter while connected to the Foxboro I/A FBM1 input point. The instrument is being loop powered by the FBM1 (P and P+). The only way we can get it to communicate is to put a 250 ohm resistor across the pair of wires (parallel). This allows us to communicate with the transmitter but we will not want to do this will the instrument is in service. I have tried this with several different HART 275s, FBM1s and 3051 level transmitters. If we disconnect the loop from I/A and use an Altec to power the loop, everything works as it should. This eliminates our cabling as a problem, in my humble opinion. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a solution to allow the communicator to work without a resistor across the pair of wires? Rory Loupe The Dow Chemical Company LHC-3 P.O. Box 150, Building 6801 21255 highway 1, Building 6801 Plaquemine, LA 70765-0150 USA Plaquemine, LA 70764 USA Phone: 225.353-6409 Fax: 225.353.6968 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any
AW BOXES
Hi Friends, can you help to know ..The differences between AW51B ,AW51C AW51E? Thanx in Advance Sawly hawl _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: AW BOXES
AW51B - SPARCstation 5 - Clock rates range are 85 MHz, 110 MHz, 175 MHz AW51C - SPARCstation 20 with dual 65 MHz microprocessors AW51E - UltraSPARC 30 with a 248 MHz processor Hope this helps. Regards, Alex Johnson 10707 Haddington Houston, TX 77043 713.722.2859 (office) 713.722.2700 (switchboard) 713.932.0222 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: dhawly hawpyt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:AW BOXES Hi Friends, can you help to know ..The differences between AW51B ,AW51C AW51E? Thanx in Advance Sawly hawl _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
