switching acorn outputs

[martyscncgarage]

Ahh ok ...
To answer my own questions above,
using cont+alt+F while on the relevant outputs on the PLC I/O screen removed those dashes and once the dashes where gone M61 and M68 commands worked to make outputs 1 and 8 go active.
So problem solved !

Was just about to answer your question and saw you figured it out.

[Muzzer]

Yes, IIRC if you read the PLC programming manual, you will see that this forces the outputs to a given state which won't be overridden by the normal M6* / M8* controls. You caught yourself out there but figured it out in the end!

There's a really good set of PLC programming videos from the Centroid development team on Youtube. Takes a while to get through them but very informative and helpful.
https://youtu.be/7WiEJiQwqXo

[zigzagwanderer]

There's a really good set of PLC programming videos from the Centroid development team on Youtube. Takes a while to get through them but very informative and helpful.
https://youtu.be/7WiEJiQwqXo
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Thanks , i'll take a look !

[axmem]

can you please tell me how did you remove those dashes from your IO output screen?
I have them in OUT 2 and 3 cant figure it out.

[martyscncgarage]

Ctrl Alt F
Press that combination until they are gone

[HoY]

Could something else be blocking the use of M6 and M8? I have cycled through the 3 different stages you can cycle on the IO screen, and can activate them and deactivate them via the ctrl+alt+f while each is highlighted, but the M61-8 mdi still does nothing for any of my outputs that are assigned to a function. output 6, 7 and 8 are not assigned to anything in the wizard and those 3 Do work with the MDI however.

edit; unassigning the outputs in the wizard allows me to control them from the mdi. im not sure if this is intended, but i probably have a lot of reading to do.

[cnckeith]

hoy, you got to post a report.zip so we can see your configuration setup.. then we can comment!

[HoY]

hoy, you got to post a report.zip so we can see your configuration setup.. then we can comment!

here it is. video showing that i can actuate output 2 relay with ctrl+alt+f while it is selected, but can not with m62 as well.

https://youtu.be/0-rf3he2gek

[cnckeith]

hello.
thanks for the report.. it shows that output two is not defined "Output2" in the Wizard output menu that is why M62 doesn't do anything.

you do have "UnclampTool" set to output 2.

if you'd like to use M61-M68
use the Wizard Output definition that go with them..(correspond to them) as described above in this thread.


here are your current settings.

LubePump IS OUT1 ;&*;
UnclampTool IS OUT2 ;&*;
SpinFWD IS OUT3 ;&*;
SpinREV IS OUT4 ;&*;
Mist IS OUT5 ;&*;
OUTPUT6 IS OUT6 ;&*;
OUTPUT7 IS OUT7 ;&*;
OUTPUT8 IS OUT8 ;&*;


if you'd like to use M62 change this

UnclampTool IS OUT2 ;&*;

to

OUTPUT2 IS OUT2 ;&*;

using the Wizard output menu.