Hello everyone! I have a customer who currently has TIA v15.1 and would like to upgrade to v20/21. The S120 and G120 drives currently have firmware v 4.7 on them. I have found conflicting information on whether the firmware will have to be updated for a new TIA version. My time will be very limited to upgrade so I'm hoping to update the project and maybe firmware later if possible.

Do the S120/G120 drives require new firmware to upgrade the project?

Thank you in advance!

Does the V15.1 project have the VFDs integrated using StartDrive or with Starter?

If the project is integrated with StartDrive, you _may_ be required to update the firmware.

That said, for S120's (and anything with CU310/320's), you should really investigate upgrading firmware to 5.2 or higher.

Once at v5.2+, you can then set up NTP on the VFD and then all alarms/history events will show the correct time-of-day.

That's such a big help troubleshooting problems with special purpose VFDs.

If Starter is used for working with the drives, then whatever firmware is installed will continue to work.  

If you do update the firmware, you will most likely need to update the hardware configuration for the S120/G120 drives in the portal project so it uses the correct GSDML settings according to installed firmware.  A few minutes of hardware configuration adjustments, download hardware changes to the PLC, making sure the telegram configurations are maintained in the VFDs, and it should be all good.

I generally upgrade VFD, PLC, and module firmware when upgrading portal versions.  It saves finding out the hard way about some bug being fixed with newer firmware.

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Hello everyone! I have a customer who currently has TIA v15.1 and would like to upgrade to v20/21. The S120 and G120 drives currently have firmware v 4.7 on them. I have found conflicting information on whether the firmware will have to be updated for a new TIA version. My time will be very limited to upgrade so I'm hoping to update the project and maybe firmware later if possible.

Do the S120/G120 drives require new firmware to upgrade the project?

Thank you in advance!