I agree, Allen Bradley is pushing this controller to take over their Micrologix series. It would be a smart move for Ignition to have a driver for this controller.
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We built the control system (logic, PID, alarming) of this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJ7cYa0_sI) very fast and efficient machines using micro 850. We connected them to Ignition via Modbus TCP. After that, we used, even more, micro 820/850 to different Ignition projects. It will be nice to have Ignition driver for the micros. For low budget applications, they are nice controllers.
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I agree, we use 100ās of these controllers in the oilfield!!
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Micro 800 are piece of crap. Itās not real AB. Better use Omron or Automation Direct. CCW is a very bad (and Sā¦Lā¦Oā¦W) software.
If you are stuck with it, you can still use Kepware instead of modbus.
That is your opinion! Now hereās mine.
I work in the Oilfields, and we have hundreds of the Micro800 series installed and running, They have been running now for around 5 years! (Let me tell you, if they hold up in the oilfield they will hold up on the plant floor or anyplace else you may want to put them).
We use them as āEdge of Network MQTTā devices for Ignition SCADA and there has been nothing that I have not been able to make these units do.
I love these units, I enjoy programming with CCW (V12), and they are very cost-efficient.
I can interface to Schneider VFDās and Eaton VFDās and of course Allen Bradley.
For me these unitās have been a life saver!!!
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Old thread, but can we have that something in the works? Due to low cost I am seriously looking at the 820 to roll out across 30+ production lines, but I donāt want to paint myself into a corner eitherā¦
Consider this another +1 for 820/850 Micro compatibilityā¦
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Modbus TCP worked for me. However, you will need to go into advanced settings when setting up the driver in Ignition and check the box to reverse your word order; at least when reading multiple register variables like floats.
For anyone interested check out tani opc-server/plc-engine, has full support for the micro800 and does browsing and everything. I use tani opc-server for the 800 and s7-1200s as it supports browsing and just drag and drop tags and itās really well priced and very good support. I have gone away from the 800s as software is so slow and buggy, CCW wonāt even install on 2 of my PCs and have to use a VM and AB support couldnāt help and said I will have to stick to the VM which is terrible support. I find the s7-1200 far better once I got my head around tia portal and a lot more powerful and roughly same sort of price and can do online editing. Here is a few vids on how easy tani is to setup and hope it helps everyone who has found the annoying limitations of the micro800s modbus
+1 for the request to add the proper EIP driver for the 820/850 Micros please.
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Add me to the list for a request of a driver for the Micros.
I was able to connect using the allen bradley Logix driver. I havenāt been able to read a tag yet, but the path might look something like this for a global variable called āAI_MINā the path shown in the controller is Controller.Micro850.Micro850.AI_MIN
Plus one, more so because the CCW Modbus mapping is so clunky. I didnāt watch any demoās before using my first one, but as far as I can see you have to add them one register at a time?
Youāre not going to get anywhere trying to use the Logix driver. You have to set up a Modbus mapping and use the Modbus driver. Or use one of the 3rd party OPC servers mentioned in this thread.
Iām trying to get a Micro850 driver onto the roadmap this yearā¦
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Good stuff Kevin, will it work with others (e,g, Micro820), or exclusive to the 850 processor range?
It should work with whatever 8xx models have ethernet.
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+1 for the request to add the proper EIP driver for the 820/850 Micros please.
According to the ideas page, itās not going to happen. Other than ease of configuration, thereās no benefit to using EIP over MODBUS.
Hmm. It does say that, doesnāt itā¦
I think we are going to do it eventually, thereās just other priorities ahead of it.
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Hi, I have a question about Micro820 Modbus mapping, do I need to do anything from mapping to connect ignition ??
I need your help: I am trying to connect Micro 820 to my ignition but I donāt know how?
Do I need to do anything in the Modbus mapping section?
Create your tag mapping in CCW, then in Ignition either use the bulk creator (found in devices section of gateway) or add them one by one by creating new tags in Designer
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