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OptoNews: groov an Engineers' Choice Awards Finalist!

Posted by Jean Femia on Oct 21, 2015 5:25:00 PM

With groov 3 you can build your own mobile operator interface for just about any automation system or equipment.

  • You're not limited to one brand or family.
  • You can mix systems from multiple manufacturers on the screen if you want.
  • You just drag and drop gadgets on the screen and then tag them. 
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Topics: groov, Remote monitoring, optonews, OptoNews 2015-10-21

OptoNews: E1 & E2 brain board firmware release

Posted by Jean Femia on Oct 21, 2015 5:20:04 PM

firmware update is now available for E1 and E2 brain boards. If your current firmware is R1.1d or R1.1e, you'll want to install the new firmware. See the firmware readme for details.

For those of you not familiar with E1s and E2s, they are serial- and Ethernet-based brain boards typically used with G1 or G4 I/O systems. The E1 is for digital I/O and the E2 for analog I/O. 

We designed the E1 and E2 as drop-in replacements for older serial-based B1 and B2 brain boards. 

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Topics: optonews, Migration, I/O, Optomux, OptoNews 2015-10-21

OptoNews: Troubleshooting resources for the SNAP PAC System

Posted by Jean Femia on Oct 21, 2015 5:18:09 PM

Opto 22 products are known for their reliability.

But if your SNAP PAC System—SNAP PAC controllers and brains, PAC Control strategy, PAC Display HMI project—isn't working the way you expect, we have some good resources to help you troubleshoot issues.

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Topics: optonews, OptoNews 2015-10-21

OptoNews tip: Totalizer helps you choose which pump to run

Posted by Jean Femia on Oct 21, 2015 5:17:45 PM

Let's say you have four pumps available, and you don't run them all at once. When it's time to start one, you want to choose the one with the least wear. 

You can decide which one to start by comparing the total amount of time each pump has run. That's a job for a totalizer.

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Topics: Tips, optonews, PACs, I/O, PAC Project, OptoNews 2015-10-21

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