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From: Lowell, Tim: [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:07 AM
To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
Subject:RE: Legacy Historian Upgrad
And now a customer perspective...
Pros of AIM*Historian:
1. You can modify it while it is running.
2. You can run it on the NT platform as well as AW51, and you can set
up remote collectors on both NT and Unix platforms.
3. Much better archiving and storage tools.
4. Reasonab
We don't have any AW70's, so I'm not sure if I can help much, but I do know
a way to extract message data from AIM*AT to a text file on the AW51. In
/usr/fox/disp_tools is a program called fh_sacego, which is a tool for
extracting System Monitor and Operator Action Journal messages to a text
file
Well, I have tickets, hotel reservations, and I registered, but that doesn't
necessarily mean I will be coming. Since I work for a large organization,
the decision is ultimately not mine to make. As of now, no air travel is
allowed, and from what I am hearing, air travel will be limited to
"non-
Folks,
I need to do a survey of all Micro I/A with Allen Bradley I/O users that
read this list. We just finished a day 0 upgrade to version 6.2.1
throughout our system, and we have been having all kinds of problems with
our Micro I/A stations with AB I/O. Almost all of the I/O is connected to
T
I did discover a way around the 5 step process of calling up an historical
trend that might be enlightening to someone, I'm not sure. I configured
buttons with the DM command "trend" on my existing trends. Trend lets you
draw a trend with many different attributes. The full command is:
trend [
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
"hou
Thanks everyone for the help with Enclosure Loading on FoxCAE.
The next enhancement request for FoxCAE I have is for FoxCAE (and SysDef) to
recognize all possible FBM types. We have a bunch of FBM37's, which are 8
4-20 mA analog Outputs on 1 card. Foxboro doesn't have a lot of
documentation on
As of FoxCAE version 4.0, is the Enclosure Loading function supposed to be
working? I don't think it is, but someone please let me know how you get it
to work if it does. What I do is add the FBM data by hand into the
ENCLOSURES.DBF table. Unfortunately, this cannot even be done with Access,
so
I have installed Netscape Navigator for Solaris 2.5.1 on all of our WP51D's
for Help file viewing. The only issue is that sometimes on FoxView, the
colors get messed up if you run Netscape. If you close Netscape and restart
FoxView, the colors look OK again. This is pretty typical of FoxView in
I forgot! Alex is correct, as usual. In addition to changing fv_cmds, you
also need to put the full path in the dmcfg file where the space is for the
Initial Environment. As in:
TYPERemote DSM E
/opt/fox/env/Remote.env
Tim
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Foxboro says you can't do this, but you can. You need to change the file
called /usr/fox/wp/data/fv_cmds. You need to comment out the line that
reads:
$OPTFOX/env/Initial.env# call in initial environment
and uncomment the line that reads
#$ENV1 # call
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From: Stan Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 9:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Alarm Formats
On Fri Dec 29 08:55:15 2000 Lowell, Tim: wrote...
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>Stan,
Stan,
Here's my best guess as to the breakdown of the Alarm messages:
For a HIABS, LOABS, HHABS, LLABS, HIOUT, LOOUT, HIDEV, and LODEV alarm:
<(ALARM LIMIT)>
The ".ANM" field (which means Alarm Name) only appears if the ANM parameter
has been configured for that block.
The "RTN"
I just got back from my first ever Honeywell course (we also use Honeywell,
and my boss finally asked me to learn it), and I really like some of their
system status displays, so I attempted to duplicate one of them on the I/A.
After a few days development, I have come up with this:
A graphical di
No thanks. Console guys get pretty jumpy when every screen locks up and you
have to reboot them all.
Tim
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From: Joe Sanguinetti [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 1:45 PM
To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
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Sounds good. We skipped 99.2 on Foxboro's orders, still at 99.1. I ordered
99.2.1, waiting for it to arrive.
Tim
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From: Joe Sanguinetti [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 1:25 PM
To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
Brain damage, I like that one...
No, Foxboro I/A does not use the TZ variable. If you are especially unlucky
to be using FoxView, you cannot even set the time backwards for the end of
Daylight Saving Time, or you will freeze any AW51 or WP51 running FoxView.
Even the developers of FoxDraw/FoxVie
If you would like to extract System Monitor or Operator Action Journal
messages from AIM*, there are existing tools to do this. You need to
download Quick Fix #991513, which consists of two programs, oajgen and
fh_sacego. These programs are Foxboro-supplied C programs that can be used
with AIM*
You guys are really pushing your luck discussing such heathen ideas like not
giving all your money to Invensys on this board!
Just kidding...maybe.
Tim
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When I said I remove it every Monday, that just means that Monday is when I
happen to look for it. I use one of Angel Corbera's scripts on a crontab
schedule to find the core files (Thanks, Angel!), and I delete them each
Monday morning. We use GoGlobal instead of eXceed here, and I think that
h
I remove that same core file every Monday. What is up with that, anyway?
Does anybody know what causes FoxSelect to core dump routinely?
Tim
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From: Murray, Steve [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 10:08 AM
To:
Steve,
CALC blocks are can do something like this, only over less time, or updated
less frequently. You could do a block like this:
PERIOD = 6 (60 sec)
I guess I should clarify that this must be only with very recent orders. We
also have some WP51D's from a previous order, but they did not have this
problem. They used a different 2nd video card than the ones in our recent
order.
Tim
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From: Alan J Sch
I know this is a pretty obscure one, but I just thought I'd mention it, in
case anyone is buying WP51D's with dual monitors:
The Sony monitors supplied with a dual monitor installation on WP51D's come
with RGB type connectors. These RBG connectors have 5 plugs: Red, Green,
Blue, Horizontal Sync,
Has anyone out there been successful in back-documenting a Foreign Device
Integrator 30 on FoxCAE 3.02? We just installed an FD30, and I tried to
back-document it, and FoxCAE gave me an "Invalid Letterbug" error. I looked
through the CAR database, and didn't see anything that said you couldn't
b
Thanks for your swift reply.
Tim
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Does anybody have a copy of the e-mail from Foxboro regarding the latest
CP40BFT/CP30BFT reboot problem? Our service guy said we should have
received it already (we didn't), and Foxboro said they can get it to us next
week, but if one of you had it, that would speed things up a bit. Since I
won'
I love it. Why is it that the result of almost any program by any
management team anywhere is the elimination of manufacturing plants and the
shift of production and engineering to China? I think it is a lesson for
us all. Lose weight and move to China!
Tim
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You can historize station loading. We have done it. FoxDoc B0193AX,
chapter 97 (Station Block) gives an excellent description of all the various
Station parameters that you can trend. The address is
CPLBUG_STA:STATION.. Is that what you mean? I'm not sure about
any of the other stuff, such as
Well, like I said, my experience with Integrator 30's is limited. I just
double-checked, and all of our compounds on the MG30's are 1/0, and the
MDSCAN' s are something else. You have me stumped. Are you getting the BAD
message on the ABSCAN detail display? I know I've had to do some strange
t
David,
Based on my limited experience with Integrator 30's, I would recommend not
phasing the compounds. Leave them all at PERIOD 1, PHASE 0. I would phase
the ABSCAN's, and then phase each block under each ABSCAN with the same
PERIOD and PHASE as its corresponding ABSCAN. This should be allow
Alex,
Well, I've been down that road, and what happens is, apitst only gives you
one message at a time. There's something about a "more" parameter, which
tells you if there are more messages. I can't figure out how it works. If
you could get me in touch with a developer, maybe I could understa
I've got TAC on this case, but they might not be the best place to go for
this, so I thought I'd throw it on the list server to see if any of you
Foxboro wizards can help me out:
We have AIM*Historian, and it does not provide any tools to extract alarm
messages into a text format. Unlike the leg
Stan,
All AW's and AP's are configured with 2 names, the "AW name", and the "WP
name". This is done in System Definition. The "WP name" of an AW/AP is
what the Alarm Alert system uses to send alarm messages to. You will see
the "WP name" for your AW51B's under "SHOW...Available WP's" in the IC
Wouldn't you know it, but the CSC web site went kaput at 10 AM yesterday, so
I did not have access to this database. Figures.
Tim
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From: James Kahlden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 8:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PRO
Well, it's been a fun day "upgrading" our historian to AIM*AT on our AW51E.
It's finally working, but I need to mention a very large omission in the
AIM*AT installation instructions:
If your historian has more than 1200 points, which it probably does, you
MUST do the following:
1. cd /opt/a
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