FW: Looking for Allen Bradley PLC5 Ethernet support

["Stevens, James" <jbs@aps.anl.gov>]

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From: Stevens, James
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:28 PM
To: Mike Westfall
Subject: RE: Looking for Allen Bradley PLC5 Ethernet support

Mike,

We read Allen-Bradley PLC5's that monitor the water system
over the network using an Allen-Bradley 1785-ENET Ethernet
module.

Each PLC5 transfers data to an Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC.
The ControlLogix PLC is read using the Epics EtherNet/IP driver.

http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/kasemir/etherip/

This scheme was developed to save the cost of replacing
our installed base of Allen-Bradley PLC5's.  It  was cheaper
to buy a 1785-ENET module for every PLC5, and a single
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC.

Regards--Jim Stevens


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From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] on behalf of Mike Westfall [mwestfal@gemini.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 9:27 AM
To: Paul Sichta
Cc: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: Looking for Allen Bradley PLC5 Ethernet support

Thanks,

But I think were are trying to rid ourselves of drvSerial altogether
(Sorry Jeff H...)


On 02/19/2015 11:44 AM, Paul Sichta wrote:
> Mike,
> We are using OPC server with  RSLinx Gateway to comm PLC5 with the IOC.
> The guy who did that recently left but I could dig up some details if
> you want to pursue that.
>
> -ps


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