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RE: [ECS] ECS Errors bob.terfruchte.amd.com Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:44:34 -0500

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Hey Robert,
 
Rather than eliminating events, just insert this first line: DO EVENT-EXIT
SET TRUE in the events you want to bypass. This way the event will be exited
without being processed.
 
Bob Terfruchte, Jr.
Austin, TX

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert L. Petrovic [mailto:rlpetrovic@ameritech.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 7:44 PM
To: Mark Gilmore
Subject: [ECS] ECS Errors


Mark:
 
This may wind up to be a long winded e-mail message but I don't know how to
explain my problem without laying some ground work.
 
I am new at ECS just having purchased it about a month ago.  I am using a
TimeCommander as my PLC Interface.  My computer is Pentium 100 Mhz with 48
MB of memory and I am using Win95.
 
With that said, here is my problem.  When I create or modify an event and
there are no errors, the XMIT and REC lights on the TimeCommander don't
flash.  Otherwise, if I have an error they both begin to flash.  I don't yet
have a large amount of events, only about 18-20 at this time.  Twice now
even though ECS didn't see any errors when I created the events, during the
night as it was processing it did find some errors.  What it does then is
stops the processing and freezes the monitor screen so that the monitor
won't blank the screen for low power consumption.
 
The second time it happened was at 1:15 AM and it turned on lights that
shouldn't have come on until 5:15 PM.  Even if I manually turn off those
lights, as soon as I click Ctrl-A to start processing it turns those lights
back on again but it won"t process any of the other events.
 
As I said, I am very new at ECS and the only way I can find out what is the
problem is to start eliminating events one at a time until the lights quit
flashing.  That isn't too bad right now but when I eventually create all the
events I have planned for ECS that is not going to be a good way to problem
solve.
 
So here it is.  Is there a way in ECS that I can access a file that would
show me exactly where and/or what the problem is??  I sure hope you can
offer some help because so far I am really pleased with what I have seen
from ECS and I really want to expand my use of it but I can't do that until
I can do the easy stuff right.

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