West Control Solutions CALogix User Manual
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PROGRAM PROPERTIES
Program properties
allows you to set parameters for a program displayed on the profile chart area.
When a program is displayed on the user interface click on properties in the programmer menu.
The program properties box should now open
Current program tab
Program Number
Displays the number of the currently open program.
Description
A user defined label (name) can be set as a program name.
Power Fail
After a power failure one of three options can be chosen.
Continue – Resume program from last point before failure.
Hold – Hold program at current point until manually restarted.
Reset – Restart program from beginning.
Ramp rate units
Set ramp rate units as minutes or hours.
Program start point
Start program from process value or set-point.
Colours Tab
The grid, main program profile, sub program profile, background, loop marker, EOP marker and EIP marker colours can be
set for the profile chart area.
Scales Tab
Scale maximum
and Scale minimum settings can be set for profile chart area.
By selecting full screen on scale display mode the profile scales are resized to fit on screen.
READING PROGRAM DATA FROM A CONTROLLER
(Note that program data is read from the controller when opening the programmer interface. The read program data
function is used to recover program data that has been modified in the programmer interface but not written to the
controller.
1. When
the
programmer interface
is open click on required module tab.
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