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On-line constant changes – Watlow LogicPro User Manual

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Chapter 15: Downloading & Monitoring

LogicPro User’s Guide

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Watlow Anafaze

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On-Line Constant Changes

LogicPro allows you to change all of the constants assigned to
a program while monitoring it in either Execution or
Simulation modes. All constants assigned to a Ladder
diagram Function Block’s input may be modified.

To modify a constant assigned to a Function Block's input:

1.

Double-click the Function Block on the monitoring win-
dow. The

On-Line Function Block Variables

Change

dialog opens, as shown in Figure 15.7 on page

247.

I/O Address

Input/Output address of the variable.
In Variable Watch, the variable I/O
address contains the following
elements:

Type of variable:

I for input

Q for output

Size:

X for bit

B for byte

W for word

IO Physical Address

Driver name

For example, an I/O address in Variable
Watch could be:
IQ.X.0.0.2:Processor_2010.

Comments

Any comments that you attached to the
variable when you created or last
edited it.

Initial

The initial value that you gave the vari-
able when you created or last edited it.

Retained

Indicates whether the variable retains
the current value when the program
stops running.

If the cell is blank, the variable retains
the current value when the program
stops running and applies that value
when the program starts again.

If NO is shown in the cell, the variable
resets to the initial value when the pro-
gram starts again.

Column

Description