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Dear Rom, Now I understand better what you have. It sounds to me like the engineer declared the signals by creating the pins, but never attached the pins to a monitor. Also it sounds like the monitors were never configured, if they were then you could expand monitors and you would see each...

Dear Rom, First of all I have to say a very nice job giving all the specifics of your machine, I am surprised CSA did not make mention of this. All kidding aside it is very helpful to us trying to understand the machine and its specifics, and it saves all the back and forth and assumptions...

Dear Chutney, at recent conference I heard from other users of the MKVIE like yourself experiencing issues with premature I/O pack failures. The suspicion from most users was it was due to heat. I know that aero derivative users have experienced major issues with I/O packs and switch...

Dear 10_AC, of courses GE would be the best resource to answer your question. But that being said as I understand it the latest OS offerings from GE for Toolbox and Cimplicity are Windows 7 and Windows server 2008. I understand wanting to upgrade to the newest possible OS for long life. And...

Jerry, just a little background about the information you are providing. It is difficult for us in the community to know exactly what you have in logic since there is not an easy way to share your logic file or screen shots etc. I have reviewed two 7FA MKVI controlled .m6b files I have and each...

Samson16, This sounds like an issue with one of the cards in the rack. I have ran into this situation several times in the past where a card in the rack does not boot properly and somehow seems to "confuse" the VCMI. When you download the configuration to the VCMI you are "telling" it what...

Dear Siem, As MR. CSA has discussed it would be much easier to perform the task all within the MKVI and not deal with Cimplicity if you really do not need to display the status of the output on the HMI. Because of the many different ways that the HMI's can be configured, and different...

Mr CSA, No slight was taken in your question or comments. I wanted to be truthful to you and the original poster that my experience and exposure while growing is still somewhat limited. I have had the pleasure to go through several commissioning activities where I think one can gain the...

Dear Jameelrahman, First I need to answer the question posed by MR CSA. In my experience I have never had a machine trip on failure to ignite. I have seen the legacy code you speak of that is designed to initiate a second attempt to fire if the first attempt fails, but I have never tested...

Dear Jameelrahman, the Frame 6 machine is not the GE heavy design turbine that I have the most experience with. But I will attempt to answer to the best of my abilities. 1.At what RPM of the turbine, starting Mean disengage from the turbine shaft. (we use electric mean starting system...

Dear Pointgrey, I hope that someone is able to assist you, but unfortunately I have my doubts that there is anyone out there that has a procedure. I would suggest you try to work with your Emerson contact or Sureservice to install and configure this software. One of my big pet peeves about...

Dear Vince64, Mr. CSA has done a good job of explaining the general operation of the sync circuit, and also asked for more information from you which will help us better understand your system. From your post I assume you are looking at the GEI and GEH manuals. I would like to clarify a bit...

Dear Obiloko4, you asked: 1. What is the temperature after cooling? The temperature of the air after cooling is typically the same temperature as the cooling water being supplied to the cooler. It is typically less than 100 degf. 2. What is the pressure at the discharge and is there...

Dear Obiloko4, the machine we are extracting CDP from was originally built as a dual fuel unit. During unit installation all liquid fuel components were removed since the site had no plans to ever run liquid fuel. One component not removed was the purge air cooler, which is basically a...

Kevin, As CSA has discussed the original intent of the .tre files was a way to export the .m6b files to perform a toolbox upgrade. These .tre files can be opened in toolbox or just with a standard text editor. The files were also a very nice way to perform one change that could be applied...

I am not really sure of a limit, you would need to refer to the manual. I think a limit does exist for number of connections and number of points. For Modbus protocol I would much rather use direct communication with the controller. I have several TCP/IP Modbus connections to controllers that...

Dear TEEKAY30, I would like to offer some comments that will not exactly help you, but may help others in the future. You should be aware that each time you download to the MKVI controller that you are also loading a compressed backup of the current .m6b file into the flash card of the...

I would suggest reading the manual Con_036 that describes programming for the ELC module. The ELC is a somewhat complicated beast. If this is the first ELC install then the controller will have to be cleared and drivers downloaded for ELC communication. Software licenses need to be installed...

I would suggest like the other posters that you stay with your current DCS supplier if it is ABB. If you want to go with a true "Rip and replace" then I would say look at both ABB and Emerson. But I have personally seen too many sites do a front end or some other kind of hybrid Ovation upgrade...