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COmpatibility between the drivers and the PC CP cards

Created by: rvk at: 3/17/2007 7:08 AM (2 Replies)

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3/17/2007 7:08 AM	Rate (0)
rvk Member Joined: 8/12/2006 Last visit: 9/5/2023 Posts: 5 Rating: (0)	HI, I want to know the relation of the driver software and the PC CP cards. e.g. If in one configuration I am using the two S7-300 PLCs with CP343-1 Lean.These twp PLCs are standalone PLCs.But customer want to monitor statuses of both the systems on single PC with WIN CC. Now if I use the CP1613 Lean do I require the drivers separatetly to buy? This is one example.But it is always confusng to decide on the drivers and in some cases authorisation also. Is there any complied information available on this to select which driver for which card? rgds, rvk

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3/17/2007 11:29 AM	Rate (0)
Late Platinum Expert Joined: 1/7/2006 Last visit: 11/17/2023 Posts: 2705 Rating: (318)	rvk But it is always confusng to decide on the drivers and in some cases authorisation also. Is there any complied information available on this to select which driver for which card? Hi, The different communication possibilitys are so huge that there is not one list with all possibilitys. On the other hand when you want to know which communication you can do, you may find it on the homepage from A&D for sure. Also is there on the SIMATIC NET CD a readme where you can find a lot of information. SIMATIC NET CD ROM PC/Software Edition 2005always search on the newest to find the newest readme. There is also a handbook where all kind of communication is given (but still not all). Communication with SIMATIC Searching on the phrase "Communication with SIMATIC" will give you a lot of information. Normal there is a PC with a certain possibility to communicate. When that is not so, the easiest (and best) method is working with S7-Communication with on top a OPC-Server or a Application to couple with windows-API-calls. You may work from the S7CPU's with events (the CPU is knowing when there is changed something) and for instance with OPC A&E (OPCAlarm and Events) so that there is the minimum on communication. When working with Report System Error and PDIAG then there are only events from the CPU and this information is with a timestamp directly communicate to a OPC A&E server where you can pick up the information (with a timestamp) very easily. But normally you don't have a ideal situation with all SIMATIC equipment and you have to do a lot of work by your self, thats life, hard working to get it the way the customer it want, but not on the way that is the easiest.
	I hope that the answer will help, if you have still questions, don't hesitate to ask me. All the best, Late Never say never, think in solutions, not in trouble......
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3/17/2007 8:40 PM	Rate (0)
Calm_down Posts: 324 Rating: (30)	Dear rvk, I don't know if I can help, but I will try. So, you have WinCC. Do you also use the BCE for WinCC? If so you do not need anything additionally, because the BCE is enough to have up to 8 Connections. So you can connect to up to 8 PLCs, also handled in different Projects, no problem. If you insist on SIMATIC NET you have the following possibilities. Use SOFTNET S7 Lean, there you can use a standard PC NIC (Ethernet Card) and you can have up to 8 S7 Connections to different S7 PLCs. Use SOFNET S7, there you can use a standard PC NIC too, you can have up to 64 independent Connections to different S7 PLCs if you want. S7 1613, the Driver for S7 Communication for the CP 1613. If you have a CP 1613 you need additionally this Driver to have S7-Communication, with up to 128 nodes at the same time... if you want. All this also with WinCC over the S7-Channel, why not? Don't worry.Stay calm.
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