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cheedee, So, this is what happens when one responds to Control.com messages with a mobile phone and doesn't take the time to properly proofread the response, and then doesn't check the message before the 'Edit' option disappears.... " As noted above, if the f the snack from 96GC-1 is not...

dustin, " i installed windows 98 on P4 machine and ghost software , can this work ?" No; this cannot work. IDOS is a proprietary, multi-tasking ,disk-based, command line-driven operating system. An x86-based PC running MS-DOS 6.n boots up as an MS-DOS 6.n system, but if you look at the...

Curious_One, There is a folder on the G: drive which has the typical AUTOEXEC.BAT and .SYS (I can't even recall the name of that file...! it's been so long) and if one copies those to the root of C: they will do all of the SUBSTituting and all of that. (I think the folder is G:\DATA.) So, one...

Hi, dustin, You seem to be trying to say that you want to load IDOS on a hew hard drive, but you're not saying if that hard drive is going to be used in the same CPU with the same motherboard, or in a new CPU or with a new motherboard. You have to find a hard drive that will work with the...

cheedee, Yet another company wants to prove that almost any programmable controller can be used to control and protect a GE- design heavy duty gas turbine. How is the LVDT connected to the control system? Directly? Does the control system provide the excitation for the LVDT AND also directly...

Curious_One, I recall hearing about this, and I did some World Wide Web searching after your post, as well. I will contact some former colleagues/friends today (I'm flying so I should have a little time on layovers). If Emerson bought the Mark VIe platform as part of the deal, then I would...

Curious_One, I've been away from the field for a while, but I still keep in touch with a lot of former colleagues. When did GE sell the Mark VIe to Emerson? Enquiring minds would like to know.

GE will try to push the new Active Point HMIs along with the new server-based HMI network. They have a REALLY SLICK presentation that will WOW you. The reality is: It isn't ready for prime time. That presentation is really very cool, and the promise of what can be is almost too much to pass up...

[Continued because of the Control.com 10,000 character limit.] Another thing I want to mention: I/O used on GE-design heavy duty gas turbines. A lot of it is not commonly used with other control systems, especially DCSs. For example, servo-valves. GE, of course, uses +/- 10 mA bipolar servos...

Frame5Guy, MIKEVI has struck the nail firmly on the head--and driven it fully home! Just about ANY PAC/PLC/DCS (Programmable Action Controller; Programmable Logic Controller; DCS) can be made to control a GE-design heavy duty gas turbine--especially one with conventional (non-DLN) combustors...

OTY, I wish I could answer that question. You need to ask GE Belfort. And I wish to retract my previous reply, because, first, this is an Alsthom turbine, and, second, and more importantly GE Belfort programmed the turbine control system. Before the advent of combined cycle steam turbines...

OTY, Most motor starters provided with GE-design heavy duty gas turbines have a switch on the door to allow the motor to be started manually. The switch is usually referred to as a H-O-A switch, for HAND-OFF-AUTO. The switch is usually left in the AUTO position. Some switches can be moved to...

Curious_One, There's some history behind why GE uses CIMPLICITY/PROFICY Machine Edition as a graphical user interface. And because GE Salem didn't "invent" CIMPLICITY (which has become PROFICY Machine Edition) they didn't want to "give the keys to the Mark*" to CIMPLICITY to speak directly...

odin, Many thanks for the update/info!!!

PieterC, 1) Have you tried opening the breaker(s)/swith(es) that send mains power to the new light circuit(s) before connecting the load to the generator just to see if it's the lighting changes that are causing the problem? 2) We are presuming the LED lights are proper direct substitutes...

ControlsGuy25, Can you do that? Are you a moderator?

Un_gineer, I'm sorry; I must seem really dense. And to be perfectly clear, I think there may be some changes to or aspects of Mark VIeS that I am unaware of since I left The General. I think the thing which is causing a lot of confusion is your continued reference to "seeing that 4-20 mA"...

ControlEng999, I agree; ME42 has a good deal of experience that has offered. An what have you done with that information? Of course; you can--and most definetly will--believe whatever your heart desires. It seems to guide most of your thinking anyway (as opposed to logic and critical...

Ken Symmons, After re-reading your post I have a little more information to offer. Mark IV While there is a way to download programming and configuration (from a laptop) to a Mark IV, that's not the normal way it's done. There are several versions of Mark IV, and depending on the version the...

KWS, I've been thinking about this.... And it's not a simple task--for either control system. In my mind, this is two tasks, for each control system: 1) Backing-up PROMs/EEPROMs 2) Backing-up configuration software and operating parameters PROMs/EEPROMs There are companies who...