I am familiar with the Legacy Historian but I was recently at a plant where
they had the new AIM* Historian. It was installed on a Sun machine. I
really like the fact that you can change its configuration without shutting
it down. This allowed us to tighten many deadbands specifically for the
te
David,
I like the way you translated the last paragraph. Unfortunately you have
to do that with all news these days to get around the spin. It sounds like
Solaris is out. Too bad.
Cyrus Taft
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>Let us dissect the last sentence.
The common archi
We use a program called ProcIns_extract which will read in a file
containing a list of tags to be retreived and output a text file containing
the data. We find it very useful. It is not an officially supported
Foxboro product as far as I know. You can also use the built in Data
Display function
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>To generate a change in the historian, set the change delta to a very,
very small number,
but not zero (0). A zero change delta will result in a new value in the
historian every 0.5 seconds.<
Alex,
Will a 0.0 deadband make to historian record a new
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>I checked my SELECT page display and
mine does not show a BCALCO parameter, just the BCALCI, BCALC1 and BCALC2
parameters. I am using version 4.3, which version are you on? <
Kevin,
I'm at version 6.1. It sounds like they lost a fix when they we
Kevin,
I finally got around to working on this problem again. Your suggestion to
connect the SWCH out parameter to the BCALCI parameter fixed my problem.
The system works as intended now. I looked into using the SSC as suggested
by Alex Johnson but in my case the downstream block is a PTC block
Sascha,
We really had 2 problems. One was with the sxopen utility for creating the
sets. It gave inconsistent results when trying to create a set for
read/write access. Sometimes it would not create a set at all and other
times it would create the set but the returned status on the entries was
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>I installed the latest Jetadmin software. (Rev. D.06.21)
I can do printscreens to all printers but HP2500CM.
The default driver for HP2500CM is net_genericpcl3printer.
I had to change it to net_lj4x (HP DeskJet 1600C, 1200C and PaintJet XL300
w/
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>has anyone succeeded in adding objects with read/write access to an
application's CDX on the AW70 using the FoxAPI function an_add_objects()?
Adding read only objects works fine, but read/write access fails although
FoxDoc describes it and even giv
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>What parameter are you displaying from the MDACT block that is
showing with the green background?
<
Kevin,
The parameter is the setpoint. Another thing which is kind of odd is the
the block shows local mode on the select page, but responds to c
I have recently installed Data for Windows version 2.3 on our 6.1 I/A
system AW-51B. We used to have version 2.1 which worked fine with our old
4.1.1 system. The new version appears to have a problem in the Data Object
Browser. When I try to select a compound:block in the wizard, there are no
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>If you are referring to Foxboro's standard color scheme on detail displays,
it means "out of range". You will see it if your BADOPT is set to something
other than 3, which is the default, and means "go IOBAD if the signal is
High out of range OR Lo
What does bright green highlighting on a process data point on a display
manager graphic indicate? Thanks for all help.
Cyrus Taft
EPRI I&C Center
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