Description of Operation
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Indicating run/stop of the Loop Control Unit (common to all
function blocks)
Running of the Loop Control Unit is started according to the START mode at
power ON by turning ON the power to the PC or by restarting the Loop
Control Unit.
There are four ways of indicating run/stop of the Loop Control Unit (common
to all function blocks) when the PC power is turned ON.
1) By operating CX-Process Monitor
(Both run start and stop can be specified.)
2) By operating CX-Process Tool
(Both run start and stop can be specified.)
3) By issuing the FINS WRITE ITEM commands (command codes 0241 and
0243 Hex) to change ITEM014 (run/stop command) of the System
Common block (Block Model 000)
(Both run start and stop can be specified.)
4) By changing ITEM014 (run/stop command) of the System Common block
(Block Model 000) by the ITEM Setting blocks (Block Models 171 and
172). (Only run stop can be specified.)
Note 1
ITEM014 of the System Common block cannot be set to 1 (hot start) or 2
(cold start) by ITEM Setting blocks. Only 0 can be set.
Note 2
Setting to a hot start or cold start is not accepted if these modes are
instructed while the Loop Control Unit is already running.
Note 3
ITEM014 (run/stop command) of the System Common block (Block Model
000) cannot be changed directly by the Step Ladder Program block (Block
Model 301). It is changed via the ITEM Setting blocks.
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Stop each function block operation and cancel operation-stop
Operation of each function block can also be stopped and stop canceled.
Note, however, that the START mode when an operation stop of each
function block is canceled is the hot start mode. The cold start mode cannot
be set.
There are two ways of performing the above operations.
1) By CX-Process Tool (Both operation can be stopped and operation stop
canceled in the Monitor run status screen.)
2) By issuing the FINS WRITE ITEM commands (command codes 0241 and
0243 Hex) to change ITEM000 (stop block operation command) of the
System Common block (Block Model 000)
Note 1
Be sure to set 0 to ITEM000 of the System Common block (Block Model
000). If this ITEM is set to 1, the Loop Control Unit stops running, and data
exchange with the CPU Unit is stopped.