Re: [foxboro] foxboro Digest V8 #14
- From: "Tom VandeWater" <tjvandew@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:18:50 -1000
Rick,
I may have missed something in this so forgive me if I ask a simple but
possibly head slapping question. Are the Compound:Block alarms being
directed to your workstation through the Compound or Station group device
mechanism? In other words: "Do all of the alarms show up in the Current
Alarm Display" on your specific workstation but won't initiate a light?
Tom VandeWater
Control Conversions Inc.
Tesoro PM Manager
On 1/15/08, Rguercio@xxxxxxx <Rguercio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 1/15/2008 12:13:19 Central Standard Time,
> foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> The easiest way of detecting duplicate Compound:Block entries in the
> file is the following:
>
>
>
> Thanks to everybody who has responded to my problem. There is still a
> problem, and here is what I have done:
>
> I am very familiar with the loadalmpnl and prtalmpnl commands and use them
> all the time. They make the panel buttons work and produce the exact file
> contents I would expect. I am not having trouble with the AApan file and
> key-pushing functions. My problem is: I cannot get the associated AAtab
> file to
> be recognized (can't get alarms to light ANY LED's).
>
> Before this last round of help, I had already checked for duplicates in
> the
> ...AAtab file using the Excel route (and thanks everyone for the other
> dup-checking utilities which I will keep in my bag of Foxboro Tricks),
> and I
> actually started from scratch with FoxPanels configurator and set up
> a simple
> panel. Sure enough, the AApan file created made the key-pushes work, but
> I could
> not get any LED's to light. I verified that the ...AA... files I had
> previously created had both the same name and same format as
> those created by
> FoxPanels, thus eliminating that path. The only difference was that
> FoxPanels, of
> course, created the <LBUG>.apc file, whereas I had never seen that file
> in
> /usr/fox/alarms before. I thought, "aha, here is the problem, even
> though
> dozens of other workstations have been working successfully without it
> for
> years". Despite all this, the new ...AAtab file apparently isn't getting
> recognized, as the new annunciator setup would not report any alarms to
> the LED's.
> Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to make sure everyone understood the
> situation. That given, is there any wisdom to be had?
>
> RGC
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