GLC2400/2500/2600 Series User Manual
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Chapter 1 – Introduction
1.4.2 CF Card
The new GLC2000 series unit allows you to use a CF Card. You can set up the GLC
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or send screen data by saving backup data (all data necessary for GLC operation) in
the CF Card using the GLC unit’s CF Memory Loader Tool feature. As with the Multi
Unit, the GLC2400 series unit includes all the following features:
• Read filing data from CF Card
• Write logging data to CF Card
• Read image data or sound data from CF Card
• Write Graph data or Alarm data to CF Card
• Back up screen data to CF Card
For details about creating / saving backup data (i.e. all necessary
data for GLC operation) and sending GLC data, refer to
the GP-
PRO/PBIII for Windows Operation Manual
(included with the screen
creation software)
.
For details about CF Memory Loader Tool’s data
upload and download, see
Section 4.3 – “CF Memory Loader Tool.”
When using the CF Memory Loader Tool, Digital’s GP077-CF20 (16MB)/
GP077-CF30 (32MB) Memory Card is required.
Send GLC Screen Data to a CF card, then to other GLCs
The CF Card allows you to set up multiple GLCs using a single GLC unit’s data.
Copy your GLC data and the CF Memory Loader Tool to your GLC unit’s CF
Card, then insert that CF Card in another GLC and transfer that data using the CF
Memory Loader Tool.
Send GLC Screen Data to a GLC, then to the CF card
You can also use the GLC as a CF Card drive for your PC, by sending data from
your PC directly to your GLC unit’s CF Card. Connect your PC and the GLC
using the data transfer cable, and send your backup data and the CF Memory
Loader Tool to the CF Card installed in the GLC.
Copy data using the
GP-PRO/PBIII
CF Card Tool
Transfer data to the GLC
via the CF Memory
Loader Tool
Send data using GP-PRO/PBIII’s Transfer feature
Transferring screen and system data to a GLC takes approxi-
mately fifteen minutes at a transmission speed of 115.2kbps.
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Setup means the sending of System and Protocol programs to the GLC unit via the
screen creation software. This, in turn, allows you to use the GLC in the desired
environment.