how to change from modbus to ab protcol and keep process the same

[kptplma]

I am changing my plc from modbus to a slc505 and would like to just change the database and keep all the process intack. I want to use ethernet to communicate with the processeor. I know that you have to delete one database and inport the other but I can't remember how to do this. I am using lookout 4.51.

Thanks,

steve daugherty 

[Ryan.S]

To change to another database, you need to first create the new database by MAX.

Then, in Lookout, select Options->System, here you can set the default database which Lookout uses. But for a process, it may not use the default one. So after you open a process, go to edit mode, select File->Modify Process, you can see if the current process is using the default database.

You can change the default one and let your process use it, or keep the default but let your process use another.

[kptplma]

Thanks Ryan, I just wanted to make sure I understand, By creating db by max you mean create the db in csv and in the format for lookout then I have done that. Thanks for your help!

[Ryan.S]

what's the csv you said?

[kptplma]

Ryan, what I have done and I hope this works ok I am not finished, but I created a slc500 ethernet driver in the process and then imported my slc database from excel then went to connection explorer  and changed all the connections from my modbus driver to the slc driver. Then I was able to delete all the objects in the modbus driver and then the driver. Now everything shows its connection to the slc driver.

By the way when I created my slc database I used the aliases from the modbus driver as symbols in logixs so the import was much easier.

Thanks for your help. This is probably the long way around and I hope it works.

steve