12/22/2020 7:38 PM | |
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Hello neklawy; Your question is very interesting, but requires a bit of clarification to give you an answer you can appreciate. If you have a bit of experience with PCS 7 v8.1, you already know that the system is based on S7-400 CPUs, and not CPUs of different families. If you are unaware of that fact, then I suggest you go to the dedicated PCS 7 Documentation site, and look at the Getting Started documents, in this site; To add a S7-1500 as a communication partner (not a main controller) on PCS7, you need to work with an optional library, Industry Library v9.0 (you miust then work with PCS 7 v9,0). The Industry Library v8.1 only allows S7-300 CPUs as partner CPUs. https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109750720 https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109750809 7.1 Application areas for the communication blocks The Industry Library provides communication blocks for several application areas: ● Communication between S7-400 (single) and S7-300 ● Communication between S7-400 (single) and S7-1500 ● Communication between S7-400H (redundant) and S7-300 ● Communication between S7-400H (redundant) and S7-1500 ● Communication between S7-400H (redundant) and S7-400 (single) PCS 7 programming uses Step 7 v5.5 environment to create the programs in CFC, SFC and SCL, and does not work with LAD or FBD as a S7-300 program would. Step 7 v5.5 is installed as a part of PCS 7 v8.1 . So I am interested as to why you need a Step 7 v5.5 installation (you cannot develop a PCS 7 application with this license).. If you still want to try it out, the trial version of Step 7 v5.5 SP4 is still available on the SIOS (Product Support), the download will install a fully functional version of Step 7 va;lid for 21 days, after which you will need to purchase a separate full license to continue working with the software. https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109741821 Hope this helps, |
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