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General Category => Support Questions => Topic started by: toan08 on March 01, 2016, 09:14:09 PM

Title: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: toan08 on March 01, 2016, 09:14:09 PM

Previously, I got the AHMI fully functional with RSEmulator including all the push buttons when clicked on.  I stopped using the emulator, and now that I've gotten AHMI to work with the physical unit, I can't get any push button to work with my program.  I made sure the PLCAddressClick for the push button was correct, as it was working fine with the emulator.

What am I missing here?  I assumed if the push buttons worked with the emulator, it would work the same way with the physical unit.  I have tried a simple test using one input to turn on output 0, and no luck so far.

Title: Re: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: Archie on March 01, 2016, 09:22:35 PM

Add a BasicLabel and set the PLCAddressValue to N7:0 in order to verify your communications. If everything is communicating, the BasicLabel will change to a number.

Title: Re: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: toan08 on March 01, 2016, 09:32:02 PM

Quote from: Archie on March 01, 2016, 09:22:35 PM

Add a BasicLabel and set the PLCAddressValue to N7:0 in order to verify your communications. If everything is communicating, the BasicLabel will change to a number.

I added the BasicLabel and it did change to a 0.

Title: Re: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: toan08 on March 01, 2016, 09:57:10 PM

Using the same method with BasicLabel to verify communication, I did this to a BasicButton with PLCAddressClick I:0.0/0 and the BasicLabel showed that the input is false, which is correct since I can't get the button functional to activate the actual input in my PLC program.

Title: Re: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: Archie on March 02, 2016, 12:43:22 AM

Put B3/0 in PLCAddressClick

Title: Re: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: toan08 on March 02, 2016, 09:14:51 AM

Quote from: Archie on March 02, 2016, 12:43:22 AM

Put B3/0 in PLCAddressClick

I still can't get the button to activate the input.  Here's what I did.  I created a BasicButton with PLCAddressClick B3:0/0 (also used your "B3/0").  I used a BasicLabel with PLCAddressValue B3:0/0 to monitor the state of that Bit and it showed as False.

Title: Re: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: Archie on March 02, 2016, 09:25:17 AM

Try changing the OutputType to Toggle

Title: Re: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: toan08 on March 02, 2016, 10:32:43 AM

I tested all the different OutputType with the BasicButton, none works.

Title: Re: How to make push button work with Micrologix 1200?
Post by: Godra on March 02, 2016, 10:35:08 AM

Would explanation about physical PLC inputs in this message make any difference:

http://advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=516.msg4427#msg4427