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Produce and Consume Tags (interlock controllers) Chapter 5
8. In the Maximum Consumers field, type a number of consumers.
If you are unsure of the number of consumers, use a number higher than
the actual number of consumers. Unused connections are deducted from
the number of available controller connections.
9. Click OK.
IMPORTANT
When your Logix5000 controller produces a tag, any device that
interfaces with a ControlNet network can consume the tag.
However, when a non-Logix controller, such as a personal
computer using a 1784-PKTCS card, consumes the tag produced
by a Logix controller, you must perform additional tasks in
RSNetWorx for ControlNet software.
Consume a Tag
Logix5000 controllers can consume only controller-scoped user-created tags
from another controller’s tag structure. The Logix5000 controllers cannot
consume I/O tags or tags aliased to I/O tags.
IMPORTANT
You can create consumed tags only when your RSLogix 5000 project is
offline.
To consume a tag, perform this procedure.
1. Open the RSLogix 5000 project that contains the controller that you want
to consume the produced tag.
2. Make sure the controller producing the tag to be consumed is in the
consuming controller’s I/O configuration, as shown in this example.
Local ControlNet module in
consuming controller’s chassis
Remote ControlNet module
Producing controller
3. Make sure the communication format for the remote ControlNet module
is None.
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