IC697BEM731 Troubleshoot Proficy with GE Fanuc PLC Hand Held Monitor IC660HHM501

Introduction: GE Fanuc IC697BEM731 Troubleshooting Guide

This troubleshooting guide is a test of a GE Fanuc IC697BEM731 Bus Controller. Illustrated here is in an IC697CHS750 5 slot rack, an IC697CPX935 processor and an IC697PWR711 power supply.

Step 1: Configure for Test by Starting in Proficy Machine Edition

You are going to do two tests for this device and you are going to start in Proficy* Machine Edition which you should have connected and what you want to do is you are going to open a blank test file by going to Main Rack and selecting the CHS750 rack and putting in the same physical configuration physically that you see illustrated here into the software.
For slot number 2 choose an IC697BEM731 and when you do that what you want to do is right click on slot number 2 and a window will pop up and you want to go to “Add Genius Device” Serial Bus Address
1 is what it’s going to ask you for first, so use 1, and then there’s a block catalog that pops up.
Illustrated here is an IC660EBR101 Genius Block and you are going to select that, hit OK, and once that’s selected go to Target > Online Commands and hit Clear and you are going to clear Controller Fault Table and I/O Fault Table as those are the only ones you want to do because you’re just asking the processor to do something different than it was doing before.

Step 2: Download & Run

So hit OK and then you are going to hit Download and Run. When it asks you what exactly you want to download you are going to select Configuration and Logic. So Hardware Configuration and Logic, top two choices. Don’t click anything else you don’t want to write this to your permanent flash memory. And then OK and then shortly here you are going to be able to get the processor into Run Mode and test the device.

Step 3: Run Test

Once you are in Run Mode on the processor and you’re going to have channel 1, say OK, if this is a working device. If you put the IC697BEM731 in and you don’t get a module OK light then there’s definitely something wrong with this device. And of course if the light’s not working, you won’t be able to follow the rest of the test.

So, if in fact you have a working device you will have both lights (see above) on when it’s in Run Mode.

There are two things that you’re going to test.
First, you want to test the address of  this serial connection going to a remote block (see above) with a IC660BBR101 plugged in. The serial exit is going to from Serial 1 & 2 on the controller to 1 & 2 on the genius block device.
And what you want to do is choose the block which is Serial Bus Address or SBA1 to be the same as what you have configured in Proficy Machine Edition which is SBA1. You should also configure to be a BBR101 so all of those things match.
And when you go into Run Mode if the Block is powered up and the Block is at serial address number 1 what you should get on the block is a I/O enabled light on. If its on it means that you are able to communicate with the Genius Block using this channel 1 here. This is very important and is the number one thing you want to be able to do with this BUS CONTROLLER.

Step 4: Test Using a Handheld Monitor

Second, is the hand held monitor, to be able to go in here (see below) and monitor it. There’s a simple way to test that and illustrated here is a Genius IC660HHM501 Hand Held Monitor.
So plug this in securely and then if you look on the monitor you are going to turn it on.

What you want to do is hit OK – Analyze (F2) and then F3 (Block Bus Status). So now you have BUS address 31 which is the device, and you have Version 5.5 and it is telling you that this is a communicating working device and that’s how you know that it’s probably working.

Step 5: Additional Steps if Necessary

So now you have tested both ports. In the event you plug in and nothing comes up the monitor will say “searching bus” and it will keep searching because nothing is there if it isn’t working. Same thing if Channel 1 isn’t working and you have the configuration as Serial Bus Address number 1 for your block and the block is a working block then you don’t have an I/O enabled light.
So there are times when these lights are working and telling you that you have a perfect device but when these aren’t working you don’t. This is not an uncommon thing.

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