Hi, I’m trying to connect an old machine to a SCADA the program is running in a Power Panel 400 I don’t have a copy of the project but I’m not familiar with Power Panel 400, is there any way to get access? I don’t have a requirement for communication I will try to adapt the system if there is a way to get access to the Power Panel 400.
Thank you
Hello,
You can’t adapt the system without a project source code. You either have it from a machine manufacturer or it was stored on a target system.
If the System Diagnostics Manager (see requirements) was activated on the target system, you could diagnose the Power Panel with that tool via an ETH interface. The IP address can be found out with Wireshark if you don’t know it.
Hello,
is there a special communication protocol required ?
Out of the box the Power Panel 400 supports the proprietary INA2000 Protocol only which is in fact the online protocol used by Automation Studio.
One can implement this by using the PVI : INA2000 line.
That means: all variables on the PLC are public and you can browse, read and write them by Automation Studio even without having the sources.
(I made a tool for that a couple of years ago to reduce overhead installing AS: brwatch)
However, you may still be able to contact the application developer, who will be able to tell you which other protocols have been implemented.
Best regards,
That tool looks great, I’m going to try that. Thank you