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Open Discussion / Introduction, and Rugid hardware
« on: March 05, 2015, 04:15:13 PM »
I'm new to AdvancedHMI. I learned controls and instrumentation many moons ago on Bristol Babcock Network 3000 RTUs and DCSes> My first HMI was their "TrollTalk" with character graphics, running on Concurrent CPM (!). Then they moved to Fix32. Before I left that job, we had over 50 units on 5 networks, and at least that many HMI machines.
Now I'm adding to the programming on a 7 RTU network of Rugid Computer RUG9s that operate our neighborhood water company. Going into the 4 year of drought here in California, I want as much visibility on our 6 wells and storage as I can get. I'm adding water level sensing to the wells, and some other alarming like rate of drop in the tank level. (We had a big leak in December, and such an alarm would have saved us ~30,000 gallons of water compared to the low level alarm we had then.)
I don't see a Rugid driver for AdvancedHMI, but I assume I can interface to the master RTU via a couple of MODBUS arrays, eh?
Chris
(also learning OPTO22 SNAP programming, but that's a story for another day...)
Now I'm adding to the programming on a 7 RTU network of Rugid Computer RUG9s that operate our neighborhood water company. Going into the 4 year of drought here in California, I want as much visibility on our 6 wells and storage as I can get. I'm adding water level sensing to the wells, and some other alarming like rate of drop in the tank level. (We had a big leak in December, and such an alarm would have saved us ~30,000 gallons of water compared to the low level alarm we had then.)
I don't see a Rugid driver for AdvancedHMI, but I assume I can interface to the master RTU via a couple of MODBUS arrays, eh?
Chris
(also learning OPTO22 SNAP programming, but that's a story for another day...)