Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 annunciator keypads
- From: Corey R Clingo <corey.clingo@xxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:29:41 -0500
I hear you. I'd have to infer that Foxboro at some point decided that
annunciator keyboards were not part of their future, and decided to let
them die a slow death rather than put any R&D into them. I'm not sure
they often consult us, the customer base, on those decisions, but that's a
soapbox for another day.
Hmm...I wonder what the market for these would be like. Building one
based on a cheap microcontroller (many of which now have built-in USB
functionality) and writing a little program to monitor the data coming
from it and send pref commands to a running Foxview wouldn't be all that
hard :)
In the end, though, I guess it's just one less piece of hardware for us to
maintain.
Corey
From:
"Lowell, Timothy" <Timothy.Lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
03/16/2011 10:09 AM
Subject:
Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 annunciator keypads
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These are all good reasons to ditch Annunciator kb's, but I still like
having them. I think they greatly improve the usability of the control
system. The real question is, why haven't Annunciator kb's changed AT ALL
in over 15 years? Why do we still need serial GCIO devices (same reason we
still need floppies, I suppose)? Surely, somebody could design a USB
keyboard that could plug into a P92 that can execute Foxview commands, and
that fits in more elegantly with the existing furniture options.
Honeywell, Emerson, Yokogawa, you name it have updated the keyboard
functionality over time, what about Invensys? I know, short answer -
InFusion!
We still have touchscreens in one location, but they are flat-screens.
They are amazingly expensive for what little use you get out of them.
Tim Lowell
Control Systems Engineer
Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company | 19100 Ridgewood Parkway | San
Antonio, TX 78259
210-626-4929 (w) | 210-439-5914 (c) | timothy.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx
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