When upgrading to CP270's there is one advantage that we really appreciate but is difficult to quantify. Check pointing went from about 20 minutes to about 2 minutes when we upgraded from CP60 to FCP270 for the same configuration. >Nick Steinbrecher > -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donato Azevedo Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:50 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] CP60 Sizing Gentlemen, I am proposing a migration to a Preferred platform of I/A. We currently have I/A 7.1.1 with CP60 controllers. I would like to base my proposal on two arguments: 1) Processor idle time is 30% and there are possible additions on the way. Are there recommendations as to how little idle time is too little? 2) We currently use A-B Stations to communicate with a series of PLC-5/40E (Allen Bradley) and those are deprecated (no longer supported by foxboro). I have found the lifecycle document that supports this argument. Are there any documents that support the first argument? Is it even a valid one? Are there any other considerations I should make? Cheers! -- Donato Azevedo _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave