I am looking for a package that will allow a NT or Win98 system to display and send Modbus packets. I need to be able to emulate the registers in a Modicon PLC (984 or Quantum). Is anyone able to suggest a solution - prefer freebie

 

www.win-tech.com has both a "Master" simulator (modscan32 - allows you to poll slaves) and a "Slave" simulator (modsim32 - allows you to simulate one or more slaves). They operate in a shareware mode which limits operation to a few minutes.

Regards

Lynn August Linse, Senior Product Application Engineer
15353 Barranca Parkway, Lantronix Inc, Irvine CA 92618
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Hi

I saw something on www.modbus.org. I didn't notice the particulars as I don't do Windows. It was free.


Hope this helps

cww

 

You could use an XMIT block from the PLC to the PC, and capture it in Hyperterminal.

 

Try to use Modsim32 & Modscan32, one for server & one for client both provide the ASCII,RTU & Modbus/TCP mode. Web site: http://www.win-tech.com . Not freebie but unregister version
can play with a couple of minutes before the service were shutdown.

 

Green Leaf System's Harmony SCADA package for Macintosh had (in 1996) that function built in as a troubleshooting and configuration aid. What
the package does is allow you to copy your system/RTU configuration and then set two (software) switches that reverse the AI/AO's and DI/DO's and turn the configured comm link into "responder" mode. The copied configuration then can respond to the original configuration and
simulate all, or part, of the RTU's using whatever comm protocol the link/s were set for. To feed values to your Central, you just type
values into the "copied" points as if they were setpoints. Multiple instances of the program can be running at the same time so that you could have the original polling the copied/reversed setup through the machine's actual serial ports and attached comm's equipment as desired. You can also just have them talking internally since Harmony's comm links are logical and both copies could be attached to the same physical port.

Between the exceptional comm's monitoring screens and this "responder" mode you had a very neat troubleshooting and configuration tool. I used
it a number of times in the shop and in the field.

Would be a nice function for the big Wintel SCADA suppliers to add to their packages.

Harmony was a solid, advanced product, but I don't know whether it's still available. Green Leaf was in Berkeley, CA.

 

Geoff,
if you are looking for this for testing purposes, I know of an OPC server for Windows 95/98/NT that functions as a modbus slave. it comes with a
test client you can run on the same PC to stuff values into the registers. As for freebie, it runs for 2 hours at a time in demo mode -- download it at http://www.softwaretoolbox.com/quicklink.asp?partnumber=41233121

John

John Weber
Software Engineer
Qualitrol International

 

Geoff,
We use a package called ModSim from a company called WinTech. Works great.

WinTech Software
PO Box 907
Lewisburg, WV 24901

[email protected]
www.win-tech.com

I think they have a demo version for down load.

Curt Jeffreys
CW Industries
Lakewood, CO USA