Recent content by demigrog2

This appears to be tampered with (binary differences from my copy of the same version), presumably to remove the dongle protection. Just to be clear, it's an illegal copy.

You could ask GE, but its faster to Google GEI-100517, second link. :) It might also be installed from the eTCSS CD somewhere on the HMI, but I don't have one sitting around to check.

It'll take a little more detail to help any. Aside from the local operator interface problem, what specific permissives, alarms or behaviors are blocking startup? On the operator interface, I could have told you anything about the prior generation EX2100's COI, but they have a new...

I could help you more in a Mark VIe/WorkstationST system, where what you're asking takes about 2 seconds. Unfortunately, in the Mark VI era it was a little more work, and also a little before my time so I'm not an expert. I can point you to GEI-100517A "Modbus for HMI Applications" which...

As a CSE I know put it, a lot of people try to "buy" SIL systems. It can't be done. The responsibility for SIL is the plant owner's, and they need their own certified safety engineer to help with the plant design and safety analysis. Having SIL rated components is nowhere near enough, and...

There really isn't any configuration for a Mark VIe that isn't stored on the flash card; if the card from the old controller works in a new one, the old board probably has a hardware problem. It isn't necessarily unfixable, but your mileage will vary. A lot of times the CF connector itself is...

There is information on serial cables and COM settings in GEH-6808. But if you've got a UCCC, its possible your ControlST version is so old this document wasn't written yet. In that case, you need a standard ethernet cable and an adapter that converts to a standard serial port, GE part...

The boot LED flashes a specific number of times followed by a three second pause. The flash count indicates the problem type, documented in GEH-6721 Volume 1 in the "Controller Status LEDs" section. The failure could be pretty much anything hardware related, and the codes won't tell you much. If...

No need to update the SDB. If it isn't on EGD or an Alarm, the new variable doesn't change the SDB configuration at all. Everything else looks ok, though I'm a bit rusty on Toolbox Classic and Mark VI.

The main issue is what protocol could the Mark VIe (or any control platform) support that would allow alarms and events to a 3rd party? Up until recently, there was only OPC AE, which being COM based, isn't a great option for a non-Windows based controller (which, by golly, better be all DCS or...

Frequently with a Mark VIe turbine control system the plant DCS isn't from GE (though obviously GE would love to sell you the plant DCS as well, they most typically do that with new plants) so this isn't an unusual situation, so I'm surprised you're not getting good answers. It probably has to...

You can't directly use files written in a later version of ToolboxST in an older version, unfortunately. Depending on what you want to do, however, there is one loophole that may help--copy paste. If you have both versions of ToolboxST installed, you can copy-paste from the newer version into...

OK, you're right, that is weird. So, two questions. What Mark VIe runtime version is this, and is that TTXSPV4 block the original TTXSPV4 from turblib or is it possibly a User Block with modified behavior? The icon for it in the treeview will be different if it is a user block.

I'd still like to get the values for the input TTXD2 array and the outputs TTXSP1, TTXSP2, and TTXSP3 from the exact same frame. I've got a TTXSPV4 block right here in front of me (Mark VIe runtime V04.07.06C on a UCSA controller), calculating TTXSP1 correctly (highest-lowest).

To see if the block is working, you need the inputs (TTXD2 array) and TTXSPV4 block outputs from the exact same controller frame. You've got sreenshots of both, but probably from different points in time, so they don't match. As CSA pointed out you can't go by the HMI screens (even though both...