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For keeping status of variables I use recipe except for some less which are needed from 1st second. If it is possible to take an event(s) to trigger a save then I would recommend this way. With recipes there is no limit with variables (as written in CoDeSys help). When starting of system the recipe can be load and variables are written with last known value. Maybe this is not for all but for most variables a good way to store their value. ... View more

Hi, tried to make a sample project. But then it works with this variable (within a simulation and just this part of program). The Date/Time is from SystemTimeRTC. This is then splitted into date and time. The time into seconds, minutes and hours. => this all works fine! Then, just for animation of my own clock lines for second, minute and hour are rotating. To get and set the current angle the seconds are multiplied with 6 => 0 sec 360°/0° and 59 sec = 354° For minutes the same and for hours it is multiplied with 30 to get it rotateted twice a day... So, the issue is when the current seconds are multiplied with 6 and written into the variable for the angle. With the name 'GVL_VISU.iSekundenAnzeige' the value is lost. With another name, just of this one variable, it works. I use a ctrlX with 1.18 and ctrlXWorks 1.18 It's a very strange issue. And as written, something similar with a own function block. My first though, instance name has too much characters (about 20) because with less it works. An issue I never had before, neither with ctrlX nor with MLD and XM I worked with. ... View more

We found that the setting of the startup parameter in the ctrlX IO Engineering of S-0-0001 and S-0-0002 was set to 4000µS and so the HCS drive discarded the incoming EtherCat telegrams. The parameters normally have to be 2000µS and the setting changed by updating the device in the engineering tool. After changing back to default value everything was working fine: ctrlX DRIVE Engineering startup parameters HCS ... View more