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dahoneycutt
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Allen Bradley Panelview Communications

11/01/2010 7:20 PM

Hello:

I have designed and built a relatively simple status alarm/monitoring system for the emergency power system at one of our hospitals. The system is based around an AB Micrologix 1400 PLC with a PanelView C600 monitor. I would like to transmit that information to our Central Energy Center via our internal ethernet system. I know that both the PLC and Panelview have TCP/IP capabilities but I am not sure how to best utilize those capabilities to accomplish my needs. Can the Panelview communicate with another Panelview via TCP/IP ? Can the PLC communicate with a second Panelview remotely via TCP/IP ? What are your suggestions?

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David
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Re: Allen Bradley Panelview Communications

11/01/2010 11:17 PM

If you set all your modules (Panelview, Micrologix PLC, communications, Central Energy Center, etc.) on an Ethernet hub, you can definitely do this.

To figure out how, contact Allen Bradley.

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Re: Allen Bradley Panelview Communications

11/03/2010 8:06 AM

You can connect to multi device as long as you deploy a network switch and the IP addresses are configured correctly in the panelview C600.

Refer to the following link for ideas how implement.

http://samplecode.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/2711c-um001_-en-p.pdf
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Re: Allen Bradley Panelview Communications

11/03/2010 6:32 PM

Thanks for the information. I thought it was possible, but one question that I have that keeps nagging me... how do I tell the PanelView where to look on the network for the ML1400 ? I think I know how to assign the ML1400 a static IP address but I just can't learn how to tell the PanelView to look for that IP address.

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