Re: [foxboro] PIDA block weirdness

Tim,

Did you check the .INHSTA and .INHALM values?

Do you still have a copy of the checkpoint file from before you fixed the
problem (maybe the BBlbug.UC)?  I find it helpful to use dbvu to look at the
block parameters as stored in the CP for troubleshooting problems like this.

Regards,

Kevin FitzGerrell
Systems Engineer
Foxboro New Zealand
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Quoting "Lowell, Tim:" <Tim.C.Lowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> List,
>  
> 
> We had a weird one today, and I was wondering if anybody had ever
> witnessed similar behavior.
> 
>  
> 
> One of our console guys was trying to inhibit the alarms on a PIDA
> block
> from a custom PIDA faceplate, and it wouldn't inhibit. Then he tried to
> force the block into a MEASHI alarm by changing the MEASHI alarm
> setting, and it would no longer go into alarm. We looked at it, and the
> block really was inhibited, but the custom faceplate didn't show it,
> nor
> did the standard PIDA detail display. Then we uninhibited it from the
> engineering station in a cmdtool window using omgetimp on the .INHIB
> parameter. We verified that the .INHIB parameter was FALSE, and that
> the .CINHIB parameter for the compound was FALSE. We then tried to
> force it into alarm again, and it still wouldn't go into alarm. So next
> we tried to hit "enter" in ICC on some parameters and hit "DONE". No
> change. Then we deleted/undeleted the block. Still nothing.
> 
>  
> 
> Finally, we completely deleted the block, checkpointed, and then
> rebuilt
> the block from scratch. Now it works fine. Has anyone ever seen such a
> thing? I'm a little concerned that we have other blocks in the same
> state and don't even know it. The danger is that any blocks in this
> state could go into an alarm condition, and no alarm would sound. The
> last time anybody might have edited this block was maybe 2 years ago.
> It's a fuel gas flow to a furnace, so it's not something that we would
> want to modify very often under any circumstances. If you've ever seen
> anything like this, please let me know.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Tim Lowell
> 
> Control Systems Engineer
> 
> ConocoPhillips Trainer Refinery
> 
> (610) 364-8362
> 
> tim.c.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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> 
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