Hello everyone,
I’m new to the forum and to B&R hardware. I want to replace the 4PP65.0571-P74 panel on my machine with a new 4PP420.0571-K04.
I have the program on a compact flash and i have some questions.
Hello Tahmi,
Its not possible. Program in compat flash was build for specific hardware. New panel will boot to service because hardware mismatch. You need source code and change hardware in automation studio and create new compat flash.
As Jan mentioned, it is possible but only if you have project. In project, you have to replace the hw, compile and generate new CF Card. If you have any project specific settings stored in datamodule, it is always good upload them from original hw (pp65 in your case) and store it in the project. So conclusion,to do that, you need original project and little bit knowledge how to do that.
Thank you jan for your fast reply , i havn’t the source code but I thought I could recover the program from the panel and I tried to do a recovery from 4PP065 with AS4.12 but it needs runtime v03.08, I downloaded AS 3.0.90 and I will try again this evening, at least, at least to make a backup. thank you verymuch jan
best regards
Thank you Jaroslav for your advice, but I was planning to recover the program from the panel, as on other brands of PLC, but apparently I can’t. So I’ll try to make a backup if possible. Thank you.
On B&R PLC source code can be also stored, but this option must be manually enabled by owner of the software for transfer. And this is usually not the case, because sw is kind of “knowhow” of machine builder. Not sure how B&R competitors treat with that, but mostly likely they use same approach. But should be not the problem to get in contact of author of your project and discuss with him what options you have. Exchange of hw is one point (very easy using Automation studio), but maybe hw exchange would need project adaption as well and this is something what is machine dependent.