io connections

[jbgoodrow]

greetings,

We have a licence for 100 I/O connections. Can I load Lookout on another PC if I keep my connections below total of 100? I believe I have a problem with PC and would like to prove theory by running the same SW on another box.

I am doing an accelerated life test on 16 solenoids/switches through a modbus object. I miss about one count per 50,000 over the coarse of about two days(with no hypertrends). If I create multiple hypertrends the problem is magnified. When I dump serial modbus data to a file, the data indicated there are moments of time when the serial port didn't get serviced. Its as if the machine was off doing something it thought was much more important. The more hypertrends I add, the more counts I miss.

thank you,

JohnG 

[Mike@DTSI]

Cant tell you yes, but you could try.  The basics of the rule is to prevent "piracy".

Is the counter in lookout or the PLC?

[jbgoodrow]

greetings,

The counters are objects created in Lookout. I am sequentially driving 16 Actuator/Sensors on a ASi network through a Wiedemann modbus gateway to Dell PC( 1.8G P4, seagate 40G ATA, 654M Ram). My pollrate is 0.2 seconds. I drive the solenoids in open position for 1 second once every 20 seconds. Without any hypertrends the performance is very good(1 random err per approx. 50,000 cycles). Over the course of a week I may have 5 0r so errors on different sensors. Like I said previously, if I add hypertrends, the problem is magnified(10x). 

Thank You for response,

johng  

[Ryan.S]

What's your lookout version?

If you configure the logging, but no hypertrend, what's the result? I want to know if the logging causes the problem or the hypertrend does. Hypertrend just reads data from the database.

Can you post the file of the serial data?