Rockwell Automation Logix5000 Controllers Produced and Consumed Tags Programming Manual User Manual
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Chapter 1 Produce and Consume a Tag
If the producing controller
is
Then the data type should be
PLC-5C controller
User-defined data type with these members.
Data type
Description
DINT
Status
INT[x], where x is the output size of the data from the PLC-5C controller.
(If you are consuming only one INT, omit x.)
Data produced by a PLC-5C controller
8. Click Connection to define the consumed tag.
9. Do the following on the Consumed Tag Connection dialog box:
•
In the Producer list, choose the controller that produces the data.
If the drop down is empty, you must first add a remote controller to the
Controller Organizer I/O Configuration folder. This is the controller that
is producing the data. If you have only one controller configured, it cannot
be both the consumer and the producer. The producing controller cannot
consume its own data.
•
In the Remote Data box, type the name or instance number of the
remote, produced data.
If the producing controller is
Then type or choose
Logix5000 controller
Tag name of the produced tag
PLC-5C controller
Message number from the ControlNet configuration
of the PLC-5C controller
•
In the RPI field, type or select the requested packet interval (RPI) for
the connection.
Important:
Consuming controllers have additional setup to allow its consuming tags to use an RPI provided
by a producing controller. See
Set RPI limits, default for producer tag
for details.
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