the wig programming software allows you to manage multiple drives a group of
drives is called a configuration and each drive is a resource so the workflow
is simple create a configuration then add as many resources to that
configuration as you need and by the way WPS isn't limited to just the cfw 300
drive it's used for lots of other wake devices like PLC's safety controllers
servos etc which means everything we talked about in this video will apply to
those two and then what you set up your configuration you can then configure the
resources and monitor the resources and view trends etc for any device in the
configuration let's do a simple example using just a single wegg cfw 300 VFD
bring up the WPS software create a new configuration and/or a name for the
configuration and a path to store it at now there has to be at least one
resource so you name the first one here I'm using a 45 comm module and this USB
to 45 adapter to communicate with this PC if we plug the USB adapter into the
bc and open the device manager we see that the pc registers that as a serial
port at this port number so we select serial port and we put that comport
number here the rest of these are the default values for the drive and I even
change those so I'll hit test and we see we're online and ready to go perfect if
you're not currently connected to a drive and you can select your device
here we are online and because we hit that test button in a previous dialogue
WPS already knew we were talking to a c fw 300 drive and that we have an i/o
module plugged in to the drive if you're not sure what device is out there you
can hit this identify bus and it will automatically identify it for you this
dialog allows you to convert ladder code created in wlp into WPS we don't need to
do that so just hit finish and we're back to our welcome screen with one
difference now we have a configuration to work with there's our resource and
there's all the stuff associated with that resource double click on this and
we can view and change the parameters just like we did in a previous video we
can start programming loud or code for the soft PLC
pretty big topic so we'll do that in a separate video and finally we can do all
kinds of diagnostics and wizards let's take a closer look at those powerful
tools with this monitoring variable diagnostic we can create a custom table
of variables we want to monitor they can be parameters system variables or soft
plc variables any variable in the entire resource right click and give it a name
and look our new variable monitoring table appears down here you can then add
global or local variables if local then you can actually select which ladder
file to pull them from and you can search which is a super easy way to find
variables we'll use this a lot in the soft PLC videos for now just be a way
that you have this powerful tool available to you with Trend you can view
up to 10 variables graphically in real time we'll show you how to use that in a
separate video dedicated to just the trend view for both of these you can
create as many different monitoring and trend views as you want and then just
select the one you want when you need it these Wizards are fantastic they show
you all the common things you'll typically want to monitor in a nice
clean format that's easy to visualize for example it is so much easier to
double click on this main signals wizard of course I need to be connected to the
drive for this to work and instantly see everything I need to know about the
drive in one place without having to remember that I need to look at
parameter 295 to see the drives rated current or parameter 27 to see what kind
of i/o card is installed etcetera for example if I watch a dry speed and
status and reach over and hit the Run button sure enough I see what the drive
is currently doing so this wizard shows me at a glance everything I need to know
about the speed current voltage temperature VFD status alarms faults and
even the i/o status which is all read-only information Wizards with a
blank icon like this or read-only wizards Wizards with this icon have
values you can change and have two buttons to help you manage that the
monitor button is already selected so WPS is pulling a driver PD right now and
displaying the results on the screen if I change parameter 402 on a drive WPS
shows the result on the screen to write a value you need to deselect
the monitor button why because in monitor mode WPS is reading values over
and over right well if a read occurs while you're trying to do a write the
value you're trying to write could get overwritten with the read value and then
that read value is what gets written to the drive which isn't what you wanted so
be sure to exit the monitor mode before trying to write any values also notice
at the background got a lot lighter when I deselected the monitor button that's
to remind you that you're not in monitor mode so to write values just change any
of the offline parameters you want and hit the right button
and we see the result appear at the drive now one side note you can't write
to the drive while you're editing a parameter on the drive you must be
outside of editing the parameter change it in the wizard write it out then drop
back into it on the drive to see the change that ensures that important
parameters can't be modified in two places at the same time and it applies
to any parameter that has this CFG indication in the parameter summary
chart this tab tells me my motor settings this one is all about how the
drive is controlled for both local and remote operations here I can see what
the keypad speed is currently set to and that it's stored in parameter 1:21 this
one shows me my ramps and min and max speed references and even a plot to show
me how they all fit together it also shows me the functionality of the i/o
pins and the connector pinout and there's even sub tabs showing me the
status of whichever module I have plugged in this wizard is showing me how
the LCD display is set up and how the data will be scaled and again I see all
the parameter numbers associated with those values the motor control wizards
are cool because they show you graphically how all the parameters play
together and the overload wizard does the same thing the bottom line is these
wizards make visualizing how your drive is configured so much easier than poking
around with individual parameters and building your own variable monitoring
window want to add another resource well just right-click on the configuration
and add one and go through all the same steps we just did in this example to
delete it just right-click and delete double-ups can even manage multiple
configurations just create the new configuration exactly the way we did in
this video not only is our new configuration and the resource we just
created and again to delete a configuration just right-click and
delete well that ought to be enough to get you going with configurations and
give you a pretty good idea of all the tools that are available to you to help
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