Good morning Greg,

Thanks for your comments. I do think CompactLogix is a great next step after this course, and as you go through both courses you'll find several troubleshooting tips included in each.

I do pan to have a dedicated troubleshooting section in the new 2020/2021 edition of the course, which everyone enrolled in a standard or…[Read more]

Good afternoon Mike,

Two Micro800's can communicate with each other, however I don't have a lesson on that yet, but check out the below manual to see if it helps?
– https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/qs/2080-qs002_-en-e.pdf

Hope this helps,

Shawn Tierney,
Instructor at The Automation School

Good morning Eduardo,

Glad you got it worked out!

The redundacy firmware get's loaded into a pair of controllers when you have a redundant pair of them along with the 1756-RMx modules. See the below for more info:
– https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/um/1756-um535_-en-p.pdf

Sincerely,

Shawn…[Read more]

Good morning Jeff C,

I just pulled up the lesson and it played without issue, so it would appear to have been a temporary issue with our global video host.

Can you confirm it's play for you today?

Sincerely,

Shawn Tierney,
Instructor at The Automation School

Good afternoon D Gregory,

Sadly, the original PanelView Plus models only support up to version 5.1. You'll need a PanelView Plus 6 to support 6.0 or greater.

Check out the complete presentation download to see what versions each models support:
-…[Read more]

Good morning Eduardo,

Thanks for your question.

In most applications, especially in discrete manufacturing, a single Continuous Task is used since no one part of the code has a higher priority than the other.

However, in many process systems it's common to have no continuous task, and instead have multiple periodic tasks, split between…[Read more]