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18Ć1

On Line Menu: Monitoring and Editing Tasks

18.0 ON LINE MENU:

MONITORING AND EDITING

TASKS

AutoMax allows you to monitor and change the status of variables

and I/O points, display and modify Ladder Logic sequences in real

time, and force and unforce variables. In order to use any options

except monitoring and adjusting tunable variables, the keyswitch

must be in PROGRAM and the password must have been entered.
To begin monitoring, enter M" for Monitor from the ON LINE menu.

The resulting Monitor menu shown in figure 18.1 in turn allows you

to access six other menus which are described below.

ON LINE direct

C: \LIB\SYS\RACK

EscăExit

Monitor

F1 Help

Variable

Analog

Force

I/O

PC

Set Up UDC/PMI

Figure 18.1 Ć Monitor Menu

Monitor Variable: used to display continuously current variable

values and to change, force, and unforce variables. See 18.1 for

more information.
Monitor I/O: used to output continuously the state of I/O registers

and make changes to those registers. See 18.2 for more information.
Monitor Analog: used to output continuously up to two integer

variables through the D/A converters located on a Drive Analog I/O

module (B/M 57405). See 18.3 for more information.
Monitor PC: used to display continuously the state of each element

in a sequence of a Ladder Logic task and do online editing of the

task being monitored. See 18.4 for more information.

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