Corey, Last time I looked at a similar project I didn't get specs until too late, but it looked like the best solution would leave the starters online with the breaker downstream. Ours had several parameters that would have been convenient to monitor even while racked out. Regards, Kevin FitzGerrell On 6/29/07, Corey R Clingo <corey.clingo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > It is a potential future application, but I will start with 9 devices and > could have up to 16. The devices are motor starters and so could fairly > often be offline (breaker turned off). Even if I split them up amongst > the ports, I'll still have >1 device per port. The data is not critical, > but having a 5- or 10-second time delay on each scan due to offline > devices could cause some operator indigestion. > > Corey Clingo > BASF Corporation > _______________________________________________________________________ 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