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Application Showcase / Re: Turbine HMI

« on: April 02, 2020, 01:13:23 PM »

nice. i guess you have a plan to improve the image of the compressor and turbine.

Yes, I do, but art is a weak point. Usually turbine HMIs have PID type screens of the lube and fuel systems but this little old turbine doesnt have a lot of instrumentation, only a temp and a pressure switch on the lube system. Not much to work with.

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Application Showcase / Re: Turbine HMI

« on: April 01, 2020, 10:59:42 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKpM4z_jAh8

Made a youtube to show what I can do.

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Application Showcase / Re: Turbine HMI

« on: March 21, 2020, 01:57:42 PM »

size limit on the attachments. So the trend file is here.

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Application Showcase / Turbine HMI

« on: March 21, 2020, 01:56:14 PM »

I am new to advancedHMI, but not turbine controls. I am a contract field engineer who did controls system installation and commissioning for years. My intial effort at a HMI to control a small turbine communicating with a Domore PLC simulator.

The turbine I choose was a solar saturn 750KW unit. It only uses 3 analog signals and only had 10 alarms or "Malfunctions". I had a set of electrical drawings for this turbine and wrote the Domore code to control it.

Both the Domore simulator and the AdvancedHMI are free software. See the attached files for samples of the three screens.

Main Screen

Includes the turbine controls and enough data for the operator to make desicions. When the Malfunction indictor in the upper right turns red the operator select the alarm screen in the lower left. If he wants to understand the turbine operation he selects the trend button. This page still need a watt reading.

Alarm Screen

The alarm logic is done in the PLC. there is a current alarm window and a historical alarm window. I might put the reset button on this page too.

Trends

If the operator needs to see how the turbine has been operating he goes to this screen.

There is also a data logging function so older trends are available through excel.

Thanks for all the Help from Advancedhmi!!  I hope I can make this product commercial.
 

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Open Discussion / Re: Problems with Chartwithlogging

« on: March 12, 2020, 03:31:33 AM »

Great reply and support. Yes the code is hard to grasp at this point. I will try your solution tomorrow.

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Open Discussion / Re: Problems with Chartwithlogging

« on: March 11, 2020, 11:24:55 PM »

I added your code to my third form. So I have the main form, page 2 and the new form. I added buttons to the main form to go to the other forms and buttons to return. When i reopen the mainform from the new form it opens at about one fourth size and not in the upper left corner but at the bottom on the screeen. When I open the mainform from page2 it opens as the normal size and in the upper left of the screen.

I have reviewed the button and the form settings and dont see anything I can change to fix this.

Thanks for your help.

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Support Questions / Re: Basic Label or General House keeping Problems

« on: March 09, 2020, 04:14:20 PM »

Thanks, working now.

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Support Questions / Re: Basic Label or General House keeping Problems

« on: March 08, 2020, 10:29:53 PM »

Do you close all open forms before rebuilding the solution or closing Visual Studio?

You could eventually try using the attached modified BasicLabel.

No I dont and those are the hints I am hunting for. so

Save the form I modified.
Close it.
rebuild.
then close visual studio or run debug?

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Support Questions / Re: Basic Label or General House keeping Problems

« on: March 08, 2020, 09:32:22 PM »

error screen, did not attach to the first message.

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Support Questions / Basic Label or General House keeping Problems

« on: March 08, 2020, 09:29:51 PM »

I want to put 11 basic labels on the main form. When I add those, even to the original main form, no mods, I have problems.


After adding 11 basic labels and before  running  debug I save and and then rebuild the solution, then I ran debug, everything worked. Is saving and then rebuilding the correct procedure after mods?

The solution ran, then I closed visual studio and reopened.  I had the following error shown in the attached pictures.

Any suggestions for troubleshooting. Are my procedures wrong? Is it a code problem?

Johnny

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Open Discussion / Re: Problems with Chartwithlogging

« on: March 07, 2020, 01:22:41 PM »

So when we make another form we should make a copy of the main form and rename it? I made a three form trial application, i used the main form, page 2 and then I think I just used a windows form for the third page.

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Open Discussion / Re: Configuration of alarms

« on: March 06, 2020, 04:39:26 PM »

I followed the link but the explanation is not clear to me. It seems messagelistbybit can be configured for 1 PLC address. I want alarms from multiple PLC addresses. Would you please elaborate

I used a 16 bit PLC word, I only have 10 alarms. I could have used a 32 bit and I believe a 64 bit. I am only interested in one PLC and I have a block of code for alarms.  I bring all the alarms in to that block and each alarm sets a bit of the word which in my case is a modbus word which the HMI reads. 

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Open Discussion / Re: Configuration of alarms

« on: March 05, 2020, 03:11:52 AM »

https://www.advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=2627.0

My similar question a few weeks ago. I was able to make an active alarm list and a historical alarm list.

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Open Discussion / Re: Commerical Questions about AdvancedHMI Projects.

« on: February 22, 2020, 06:54:32 PM »

thanks archie,

I probably have to find new customers, I used to work in the power business. Very corporate and now government regulated.  probably try to find some small black start generator in small businesses. Maybe small building automation.

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Open Discussion / Commerical Questions about AdvancedHMI Projects.

« on: February 22, 2020, 02:58:44 PM »

I dont see any commercial discussions in this forum but they are at least as important as technical questions.

I suppose the sales pitch for advnacedHMI is "free software", no license problems and can be used on any PC with any monitor.

Are customers receptive to the above? What kind of customers?  I know I am  as  a developer, I am a one man shop with modest income, no way I can buy a rockwell license and a wonderware license.  I used to have a big customer that gave me all the licenses I needed.

Does anyone have large corporate customers, the kind with big IT departments with lots of rules? Are there problems?

The closest competitor is Automation Direct C-more?

Is there some web site to market our HMIs on? Or a site with want ads for advancedhmi programmers?