# Kepware OPC UA Client Timeout

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kepware-opc-ua-client-timeout/35039>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kepware-opc-ua-client-timeout/35039 "2020-05-26T12:16:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kepware-opc-ua-client-timeout/35039/14 "2026-03-16T20:41:44Z")

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Potentially, or it may be that it takes 20 seconds for the device to figure out a lack of connection. This is what showed in the logs;  
and the issue was resolved by allowing None. This was using 8.1, I see in

[this thread](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/opc-ua-client-connection-issues/79799/18) that things were refactored in 8.3 to be less strict.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/6/367c5c72a341ee1abef09cf7439591d6f0804bec.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/3/f38c72b4082995f68aa7766f09bd7818fa8087fa.png)

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