Micro800™ Basic Machine Application Lab Featuring

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Connected Components Workbench v21 Software Basic Machine Application Lab

Contents
About this lab ................................................................................................................................................ 4

Tools & prerequisites .................................................................................................................................... 4

Exercise #1 - Create a Connected Components Workbench project and add a Micro870 controller .......... 5

Exercise #2 - Add a PowerFlex 523 drive to your project ........................................................................... 11

Exercise #3 - Program a motor start/stop rung in ladder logic .................................................................... 21

Exercise #4 - Build, download and test your Micro870 Project ................................................................... 31

Exercise #5 - Using Run Mode Change, copy and paste a ladder rung from Studio 5000 to Connected
Components Workbench to control motor speed ....................................................................................... 37

Exercise #6 – Import a drive UDFB from sample code and configure it to monitor and control the
PowerFlex 523 drive via Ethernet ............................................................................................................... 46

Exercise #7 – Remotely control the PanelView 800 terminal using a Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
connection. .................................................................................................................................................. 60

Exercise #8 – Experience drive trending .................................................................................................... 65

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About this lab

Connected Components Workbench™ software is the integrated design environment software package that is used to program,
design, and configure your Rockwell Automation Connected Components devices such as Micro800™ programmable logic
controllers, PowerFlex® variable frequency drives, Kinetix® 3 servo drives, SMC™ soft-starters, Guardmaster® software
configurable safety relays and PanelView™ 800 operator interface terminals.

This lab will guide you in configuring a PowerFlex 523 drive, programming a Micro870® controller, and visualizing a PanelView
800 terminal application, all using Connected Components Workbench v20 software.

Tools & prerequisites

• Software: Connected Components Workbench (CCW) Version 21 software – Developer Edition

• Hardware: Micro870 controller (v21.011), PanelView 800 terminal (v7.011), and PowerFlex 523 drive.

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Exercise #1 - Create a Connected Components Workbench project and add a Micro870 controller

In this section, you will create a new Connected Components Workbench project and learn how to:
▪ Add a Micro870 controller to your project by selecting a new device from the ‘Catalog’.
▪ Add and configure plug-in modules for the Micro870 controller.

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1. Start the Connected Components Workbench (CCW) software by double clicking the icon on the
desktop.

2. Add a Micro870 to your project.

Click New… from the Start Page. Accept the New Project defaults by clicking Create. Click Select existing
device, select the Micro870 under the expanded AB_ETHIP-1 driver in the Connection Browser window and
click OK. Then click Add To Project. This will add a Micro870 controller to your project.

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3. Notice that the Micro870 shows up both in the Project Organizer on the left-hand side as well as a large graphic
in the middle.

4. Configure the Ethernet port as shown below.

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5. Next, the plug-in modules used by this lab need to be added to the controller and configured. This Micro870
controller has three plug-in slots available. Plug-ins can be added to provide analog inputs and/or outputs,
additional digital inputs and/or outputs, additional communication ports and other specialty functions.

6. Right click on the middle plug-in slot on the large Micro870 graphic and select a 2080-IF4 analog input plug-in
module.

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7. Using the pull-down menu, change the 2080-IF4 Channel 0 Input Type from Current to Voltage.

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8. Similarly, right click on the third plug-in slot, select a 2080-OF2 analog output plug-in module, and change the
2080-OF2 Channel 1 Output Type to Voltage and the Output State to Enabled.

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Exercise #2 - Add a PowerFlex 523 drive to your project

In this section, you will learn how to:

▪ Add a PowerFlex 523 drive to your project using Discover.
▪ Configure the drive using the Startup Wizard.

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9. Now that the Micro870 controller is added and configured, the next step is to add and configure the PowerFlex
523 drive. Since the drive is already connected to communicate with the PC via EtherNet/IP, the easiest way to
add it to the project is to Discover it. Click on the Start Page tab to re-open the Start Page and click on
Discover…

10. Expand AB_ETHIP-1 in the Connection Browser window, click on the PowerFlex 523 icon and click OK.

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11. Click Wizards to bring up the Wizards screen and click Start to open the PowerFlex 523 Startup Wizard.

12. Click Next to continue to step 2 of the Wizard.

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13. Click Reset all settings to factory defaults (including the customer parameter group): and Yes to confirm.
The PowerFlex 523 drive display will flash F048, which is the fault that indicates that the drive parameters have
been reset back to factory defaults. Click Next five times to continue with step 7 of the Wizard.

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14. Click the red stop button icon to clear the drive fault, then click and hold down the mouse button over the Jog
button icon. The motor should be running now for as long as you hold down the mouse button. After releasing
the mouse button, choose Yes for ‘Is the direction of motor rotation correct for the application?’. Click Next three
times to skip steps 8 and 9 and continue to step 10 of the Wizard.

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15. Select 0-10V Input from the Speed Reference drop-down menu. This will allow the Micro870 to control the
speed of the motor using an analog output from the 2080-OF2 plug-in that is wired to the drive’s analog input.
However, now note the exclamation point in the red circle. When you hover your mouse over it, you see a tooltip
that indicates that “No two speed references can have the same value.” Click on the Speed Reference 2 tab.
Select Drive Pot from the Speed Reference 2 drop-down menu and the exclamation point goes away. Click
Next to continue to step 11 of the Wizard.

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16. Select DigIn TrmBlk from the Start Source drop-down menu. This will allow the Micro870 to start and stop the
drive using a digital output that is wired to the drive’s digital input 02. Click Next twice to reach step 13.

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17. Click Finish >>.

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18. In the Overview screen, click Add to Project to save the online drive configuration as part of the offline project.

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19. Select Disconnect from the Connect dropdown menu and click Close.

20. Save all the changes so far in the project by clicking the Save Project icon ( ) from the toolbar.

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Exercise #3 - Program a motor start/stop rung in ladder logic

In this section, you will learn how to:

• Add a ladder diagram program to the Micro870 controller.
• Rename the ladder diagram program.
• Program a ‘seal-in’ circuit to start and stop the motor in ladder logic.

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21. Add a Ladder Diagram program.

Right-click Programs under the Micro870 in your Project Organizer and select Add → New LD : Ladder
Diagram.

22. Notice a new Ladder Diagram program called Prog1 has been added under Programs.

Micro800 controllers allow you to create multiple programs as well as use multiple types of programs (such
as Structured Text or Function Block Diagram) in the same controller application.

Since we’ll be creating a program that does hard wired motor control, let’s rename it Hard_Wired_Control.

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23. Right-click the Prog1 program icon and select Rename.

24. Rename the program, Hard_Wired_Control.

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25. Create a motor seal-in circuit in your Hard_Wired_Control Ladder Diagram program.

This circuit will use a Start variable and a Stop variable that are assigned to contacts to start and stop the motor.
The Motor ON/OFF output coil will be assigned to DO9 (Digital Output 9) so that when DO9 is turned on, the
motor accelerates and runs, and when DO9 is turned off, the motor decelerates to a stop.

26. Double-click the Hard_Wired_Control program icon. A ladder diagram editor will appear in the main project
workspace with one empty rung. Connected Components Workbench version 12 and later software includes the
ability to change the ladder editor theme between Default and Logix, which is the theme you will be using in this
lab. The Logix theme uses instruction symbols and terminology that will be more familiar to users of RSLogix
500 and Studio 5000 Logix Designer programming software. Another feature of this software version is a tabbed
Instruction Library toolbar, which should also look familiar to Logix users.

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27. Notice that after changing the Theme to Logix, the Project Organizer window was replaced with a Controller
Organizer window, which should also be more familiar to Logix users. Double click on Hard_Wired_Control to
re-display the ladder logic program.

28. Note that when you hover your mouse over a symbol in the Instruction Library, the tooltip shows you the name
of the symbol.

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29. Click on and drag a Direct Contact symbol down onto the empty rung 1 as shown below. Release the mouse
button once the mouse pointer is hovering over the ‘+’ at the beginning of the rung.

30. The Variable Selector window then opens automatically to allow creation of a new variable to assign to this
contact. In this window, select Micro870 for the Scope (which will make it a Global/Controller Variable) and
scroll down to the bottom of the list to enter in a new BOOL variable. Type ‘Start_Motor’ for the Name, hit Enter
and click OK.

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31. Your direct contact on rung 1 should look like the following.

32. Locate the Direct Coil instruction in the Instruction Library and drag-and-drop it onto the rung as shown below.

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33. In the Variable Selector window, select Micro870 for the Scope. Click on variable _IO_EM_DO_09, which is
the name for the output on the Micro870 controller that is wired to the input on the drive that commands it to run.
Type “Motor ON/OFF” for the Alias description for the output and click OK.

34. Your rung should look like this so far.

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35. Locate the Reverse Contact instruction in the Instruction Library and drag-and-drop it onto the rung between
the Direct Contact and the Direct Coil. In the Variable Selector window, select Micro870 for the Scope. Type
‘Stop_Motor’ for the Name, hit Enter and click OK. Your rung should look like the following.

36. Locate the Branch instruction in the Instruction Library and drag-and-drop it to the left of the Direct Contact on
the far left of the rung.

37. Your rung should look like this now.

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38. Drag-and-drop a Direct Contact onto the Branch that you just added and assign to it the embedded output point
_IO_EM_DO_09. Notice that output points can be assigned to contacts as well as to coils. Your rung should look
like the following.

39. It is always a good programming practice to document your program rungs so that when you or someone else
looks at the rung in the future, it will be clear what the intended function of the rung is. Double click within the
rung comment box just above the rung and type in “Start_Motor turns the motor on and Stop_Motor turns the
motor off.”

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Exercise #4 - Build, download and test your Micro870 Project

In this section, you will learn how to:

• Build your application and verify that there are no errors.
• Download your application to the Micro870 controller.
• Test that it works as intended.

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Before you can download a project to the controller, you must build it to verify that there are no errors with the programming.

40. Build your application by clicking the Build icon.

When the build is complete, you will see a message in the lower left-hand corner that the build has succeeded. If
there were errors in your programming, then they would be listed in the Error List panel and clicking on the error
would direct you to the error in your project.

Now that your build has completed, you can download the project to your controller.

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41. Download the project to your Micro870 by clicking the Download button under the Micro870 tab.

42. The Connection Browser window will appear. Browse for your controller by expanding AB_ETHIP-1 and
selecting IP address 192.168.1.27, then clicking OK.

43. The Download Confirmation window will appear. You will be prompted to overwrite the project in the
controller. The two choices are Download and Download with Project Values. When a project is uploaded
from the controller, a snapshot of the values of all the user variables is uploaded and saved. These values can
be downloaded back into the controller along with the project by selecting Download with Project Values.

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44. In this lab, we have a new project and none of the variables have a Project Value assigned to them yet.
Therefore, just click Download.

45. The download will proceed. When the download is complete, you will be prompted to put the controller back in
Remote Run mode. Click Yes.

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46. Notice that at the conclusion of the download, the software went directly into Connected mode, as highlighted
below, and is now displaying the real-time status of rung 1. Red contacts indicate that power can flow through
them, while blue contacts indicate that the power flow is blocked. Red coils indicate that they are turned on,
while blue coils are turned off. Currently the Motor coil is off (blue) because power is blocked by both the blue
Start_Motor contact and the blue Motor ON/OFF contact.

47. Right click on the Start_Motor contact and click Toggle Boolean Value. Verify that the Start_Motor Direct Contact has
turned red and that the Motor ON/OFF Direct Contact and Direct Coil have turned red and remain red, even after toggling
the Start_Motor Boolean value back off.

48. Toggle the Boolean value of Stop_Motor to turn off the output. Notice the corresponding color changes in your Ladder
Diagram. Toggle the Boolean value of Stop_Motor back off.

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 This is a typical motor seal-in circuit (and can also be applied in non-motor circuits as well). The Output Coil
is turned on using a Direct Contact and then the active state of the Output Coil seals in the circuit. The circuit
is unsealed when a Reverse Contact is turned on.

49. Toggle the Boolean value of Start_Motor on to restart the motor and then toggle Start_Motor back off again.
50. You have completed debugging your motor seal-in circuit – next you will add programming to vary the speed that the motor
spins at, while your existing program continues to run.

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Exercise #5 - Using Run Mode Change, copy and paste a ladder rung from Studio 5000 to
Connected Components Workbench to control motor speed

In this section, you will learn how to:

• Use Run Mode Change (RMC) to make program changes while the controller continues to run the existing program.
• Copy and paste ladder logic from Studio 5000 Logix Designer software to Connected Components Workbench
software.
• Archive your project.

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You have completed debugging your motor seal-in circuit, but what we really want to accomplish is for the motor to spin when it
is turned on and to be able to vary the speed that the motor spins at. The motor currently doesn’t spin when turned on because
the Micro870 analog plug-in output point that connects to the drive analog input point needs to be programmed to output
something other than 0 volts.
One of the features exclusive to Connected Components Workbench Developer Edition is Run Mode Change (RMC). This
feature will allow us to implement program changes without having to stop the process being controlled by the Micro870
controller (i.e., the controller remains in RUN mode).

51. Click on the Run Mode Change icon in the upper right Run Mode Change toolbar. Notice that the rung no longer displays
the blue and red status colors.

52. Click on the new rung icon in the Favorites group to add a second rung.

53. Minimize (don’t close!) Connected Components Workbench software.

54. Open Studio 5000 software by double clicking on the icon on the desktop.

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55. Click on CompactLogix_L16 under Recent Projects.

56. Once the project opens, expand the MainProgram within the Controller Organizer window, then double click
on MainRoutine to open the 1-rung ladder routine.

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57. This is a 1-rung program that moves an analog input value from channel 0 of an analog input module in slot 2 to
channel one of an analog output module in slot 3. Right click on rung 0 and select Copy Rung.

58. Minimize the Logix Designer window and maximize the Connected Components Workbench window. Right click
anywhere on the second rung and select Paste.

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59. The MOV instruction rung is copied over on rung 2. The yellow triangles by the input and output variables indicate that those
variable names don’t exist in the Micro870 controller. Go ahead and delete the blank rung 3.

60. Double click on the yellow triangle under Local_2_I.Ch0Data to bring up the Variable Selector window. Select Micro870
for the Scope and scroll down to select _IO_P2_AI_00 (which references channel 0 on the analog input plug-in module in
slot 2). Click OK.

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61. Likewise, double click on the yellow triangle under Local_3_O.Ch1Data to bring up the Variable Selector window. Select
Micro870 for the Scope and scroll down to select _IO_P3_AO_01 (which references channel 1 on the analog output plug-in
module in slot 3). Click OK.

62. Now you are ready to test the changes you made in the running system. Click the ‘Test changes’ icon immediately to the
right of Run Mode Change.

63. Note that the changes are now built and downloaded to the controller and once completed, we can test how the new
program is operating. To adjust the speed of the motor, we will force values into analog input _IO_P2_AI_00, which will get
moved into analog output _IO_P3_AO_01 by rung 2, which is the analog output that controls the rotating speed of the motor
(with a slight acceleration or deceleration lag).

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64. Double click in the lower half of the i1 input parameter box to bring up the Variable Monitoring screen for _IO_P2_AI_00.
Expand the screen so that the Lock column is exposed and check the box in the _IO_P2_AI_00 row. Now you can enter in
values (0-65535) into the Logical Value column for _IO_P2_AI_00 which will be moved into _IO_P3_AO_01.

65. Optional: View the actual hardware panel remotely. Click on the camera URL link provided in the scheduling email and enter
the Username: Public (note that this username is case sensitive) and Password: ThisIsTheCameraPassword. Verify that the
speed of the induction motor is changing as you enter in different values for _IO_P2_AI_00.

66. Once the changes have been tested using Run Mode Change, you have two options: Accept changes, which saves the
changes that have been made, or Discard unaccepted changes, which deletes the changes that have been made. The
icons for ‘Accept changes’ and ‘Discard unaccepted changes’ are immediately to the right of the ‘Test changes’ icon.

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67. Now that your changes are verified, click the ‘Accept changes’ icon.

Note again that the motor has continued to spin throughout the Run Mode Change edit session. (When
downloading normal offline changes, the controller must be first switched to program mode, which would stop the
motor.)

68. Toggle the Boolean value of Stop_Motor on to stop the motor and then toggle Stop_Motor back off again.

69. Click the Disconnect button under the Micro870 tab to go offline.

70. Another feature exclusive to Connected Components Workbench Developer Edition is the ability to archive multiple copies
of a project. Especially during development, it can be useful to be able to go back to a previous version of the project if
changes that have been made need to be undone. It also provides a chance to document changes from one version of the
project to the next. Archive a copy of your current project by selecting File → Archive Manager...

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71. Enter “Simple motor control project.” for the Description and click Archive.

72. Click Close to close the Archive Manager.

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Exercise #6 – Import a drive UDFB from sample code and configure it to monitor and control the
PowerFlex 523 drive via Ethernet

In this section, you will learn how to:

• Import a UDFB from sample code.
• Import global variables to use with the UDFB.
• Configure the UDFB to monitor and control the PowerFlex 523 drive via Ethernet.

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73. Begin the UDFB import procedure by right clicking on the Micro870 icon and selecting Import->Import Exchange File.

74. Click Browse and navigate to directory C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\CCW\Samples\Rockwell

Automation\UDFBs\PF750,520 Series & 4-Class (Ethernet), select file
Exported.RA_PFx_ENET_STS_CMD.UDFB.v11.7z and click Open.

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75. Click Import.

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76. RA_PFx_ENET_STS_CMD is now listed under Add-On Instructions.

77. Add a second Ladder Diagram program.

Right-click MainTask under the Tasks in your Controller Organizer and select Add → New LD : Ladder
Diagram. Rename the new program Ethernet_Control.

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78. Double-click the Ethernet_Control program icon to open the program. Click on (User defined) and note that
RA_PFx_ENET_STS_CMD is listed in this instruction group.

79. Click and drag RA_PFx_ENET_STS_CMD onto the rung.

80. Click in the upper half of the IPAddress input parameter and enter ‘192.168.1.68’ (including the single quotes, since this is
a string value), which is the IP address of the drive.

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81. Similarly, enter 1000 for the read Update Rate (in milliseconds) value, 5 for the Ethernet Control Timeout (in seconds) value
and 5.0 for the Accel Time 1 and Decel Time 1 values.

If you hover the cursor over the instruction block, the tooltip lists the data types for each of the input and
output parameters. Note that AccelTime1 and DecelTime1 are of data type REAL. Therefore, when you
enter a constant value for those parameters, it must be in REAL format even for an integer value (i.e., 5.0,
not just 5).

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82. Click in the upper half of the Stop input parameter and select variable Stop_Motor from the dropdown list.

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83. Similarly, enter Start_Motor for the Start input parameter. Create two new Micro870 scoped Global Variables
Speed_Command (REAL) for SpeedRef and Motor_Ind (BOOL) for Active.

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84. In order for this UDFB to be able to start, stop and control the speed of the drive via Ethernet, two of the drive
parameters need to be modified. Type Ctrl+Alt+P to switch back to the Project Organizer, double click on the
PowerFlex 523_1 icon, select Parameters and click Show Non-Defaults.

85. The two parameters that need to be modified are Start Source 1 and Speed Reference 1.

86. Click in the Value column next to Start Source 1 and select Network Opt (which refers to the optional Ethernet
communications card) from the dropdown menu.

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87. Similarly, click in the Value column next to Speed Reference 1 and select Network Opt from the dropdown
menu.

88. Download the changes to the drive by clicking the Connect icon and selecting Download from the dropdown
menu. Click Finish when the download has completed.

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89. Click on the Micro870 tab and download the project to your Micro870 by clicking the Download button.

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90. Click Download with Project Values and Yes to changing the controller to Remote Run to execute the project. Once the
download has completed, the instruction block should appear like this.

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91. To test that the instruction block is now controlling the motor, double click the Start_Motor input parameter block to bring up
the Variable Monitoring screen. Delete the filter, click the checkbox for Start_Motor in the Logical Value column and
verify that the motor starts running (Motor_Ind should be checked/on). Change the value of Speed_Command to
something greater than 0 (5.0-60.0).

92. Optional: View the actual hardware panel remotely. Click on the camera URL link provided in the scheduling email and enter
the Username: Public (note that this username is case sensitive) and Password: ThisIsTheCameraPassword. Verify that the
speed of the induction motor is changing as you enter in different values for Speed_Command.

93. Click the checked checkbox again to uncheck Start_Motor, then click the Stop_Motor checkbox and verify that the motor
stops running (Motor_Ind should be unchecked/off). Finally, click the checked checkbox again to uncheck Stop_Motor -
both checkboxes should now be unchecked.

94. Click Cancel on the Variable Monitoring screen, then click the Disconnect button under the Micro870 tab to go offline.

95. Select File->Archive Manager.

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96. Enter “Added Ethernet control.” for the Description, click Archive then Close to close the Archive Manager.

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Exercise #7 – Remotely control the PanelView 800 terminal using a Virtual Network Computing
(VNC) connection.

In this section, you will learn how to:

• Use Virtual Network Computing (VNC) to operate graphic terminal screens remotely from your PC.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) allows you to remotely connect to a PanelView 800 terminal, either over the local network or
even over the Internet (with appropriate security in place, of course!). With VNC you can interact with the terminal without having
to be physically at the terminal location. It transmits keyboard and mouse actions from your computer to the terminal.

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97. Open a remote Virtual Network Connection (VNC) to the PanelView 800 terminal by double clicking the
TightVNC Viewer shortcut on the desktop or selecting TightVNC Viewer from the Windows Start menu under
TightVNC.

98. Verify the Remote Host IP address of the terminal, 192.168.1.108, and click Connect.

99. Enter the password “ra-“ (without the quotes), and then click OK.

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100. If the MotorStarter application is already running, then verify that you can start, stop and control the speed of
your motor remotely from your PC by clicking on the START MOTOR, STOP MOTOR and speed entry buttons.

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101. If this is not the screen currently being displayed, navigate back to the config Main menu screen and click File
Manager.

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102. Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight MotorStarter and click Run.

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Exercise #8 – Experience drive trending

In this section, you will learn how to:

• Use the trending capability for drives.

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104. Connect to the drive by double clicking the PowerFlex 523 drive icon under Project Organizer,
then click the Connect icon and select Connect from the dropdown menu.

105. Under Project Organizer, click the Trends tab and click the Add trend icon.

106. Click the + under TRACES.

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107. Click PowerFlex 523_1.

108. Click Port 0 – PowerFlex 523.

109. Click Parameters.

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110. Click Basic Display.

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111. Click #1 Output Freq and #4 Output Voltage, then click Add.

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112. Click OK.

113. Click the play button to start the trend.

Using TightVNC Viewer, navigate back to the PanelView 800 MotorStarter application
MOTOR_CONTROL screen, set the speed to 60.0, then use the start and stop buttons to
repeatedly start and stop the motor (even while it is still accelerating or decelerating) to create a
trend of interest.

114. Click the stop button to stop the trend.

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115. Click VIEW ALL. This will display the entire captured trend.

116. To learn more about drive trending and its capabilities, click the ‘?’ button.

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