Eaton 500 User manual

PanelMate Series 500
Getting Started User’s Guide
Cutler-Hammer IDT
P.O. Box 6166
Westerville, OH 43086-6166
[phone]
09/18/96 P/N 01-00258-00

Preface
Cutler-Hammer IDT has prepared this manual for use by Cutler-Hammer IDT personnel
and customers. The information contained within is the property of
Cutler-Hammer IDT and shall not be reproduced in whole or part without written approval
from Cutler-Hammer IDT.
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without notice.
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manual.
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© Cutler-Hammer IDT, Inc., 1996
Printed in the USA

Foreword: Success with the PanelMate 500 F-1
Foreword
Achieving success with the PanelMate 500
Congratulations on your purchase of the PanelMate 500 electronic operator station!
Now that you have received your software and hardware, it’s time to determine how to
setup your operator station and put it into service.
SUCCESS - AND QUICKLY! We know that’s what every user wants and expects. You’ve
started at the right place: by opening this “Getting Started” manual. We know how most
people dislike reading volumes of material. So, if you’ll just follow the steps outlined in this
ONE booklet, you’ll be able to get a simple operator interface running with your PLC or
network in just a few hours.
We’ve provided several handy tools to help you “get to know” PanelMate 500. They are
further detailed in the pages ahead, but include:
* an overview of PanelMate 500 which you can run on your PC like a
slide show, using a built-in viewer
* a simulation built into every PanelMate 500 online unit
* a more detailed demonstration which can be loaded into the online unit
* a set of simple startup configurations that lets you verify communication
with many of the most common small PLCs

F-2Foreword: Success with the PanelMate 500
About the Other Manuals
In addition to this Getting Started manual, the following documents are furnished with
PanelMate 500 configuration software:
* Configuration Editor User’s Guide
This document contains reprints of over 100 help pages built into the configuration
editor. It provides answers to questions about software features and functions.
* Transfer User’s Guide
This document provides instruction on how to transfer files between your PC and a
PanelMate 500 online unit.
* Online Operation User’s Guide
This document describes how PanelMate 500 works online, and includes a summary
of communication errors which may be displayed.
* individual PLC brand communication manual(s)
A PLC communication manual will be furnished for each of the PLC communication
interfaces you purchased. (They can be bought as a group, or individually.) Each
manual contains detailed information about cabling to the PLC, addressing, etc.
This document is furnished with each PanelMate 500 online unit:
* Hardware Installation Guide
This document provides guidelines for physically installing the online unit, including
hole cutout information, power and ventilation information, etc.
DON’T READ ANY OTHER MANUALS RIGHT NOW. Please DO read and follow the rest
of this Getting Started manual - it will make your path to success much shorter and much
more fun! So, if you’ll look at the next page about Additional Help, then turn to Chapter 1,
let’s get started.

Foreword: Success with the PanelMate 500 F-3
Additional Help
If you make use of the demonstration materials and the sample PLC startup
communication files, you should be able to get your PanelMate 500 unit up and running
successfully with your PLC. And, you’ll see that your configuration software has many
built-in “help” pages to assist you with the page creation process.
However, PanelMate 500 has a wide variety of features available, including the powerful
Virtual Mentor feature in online models 542VM and 542LM. If you need advice on creating
your application, or if you need other help, please phone one of the numbers listed below,
for assistance.
Department Number Description
Customer
Support Center [phone] Answers your questions about
connection, configuration, and application
of Cutler-Hammer products. Available
8:00 AM to 5:30 PM (Eastern Standard
Time) Monday through Friday.
Bulletin Board [phone] Electronic bulletin board service allows
you to access product information,
documents, and demo files.
Log on with these settings:
(8/1/none/9600-28.8K baud)
Document
Faxback [phone] Automated document request service
allows product information and technical
bulletins to be automatically faxed.
Software Update
Service [phone]
Extension 7636 Registers your software and provides free or reduced price software updates for
Operator Station products.
Repairs and
Upgrades [phone] To obtain product repairs, upgrades and
spare parts.
Order Entry [phone] Helps you place a new order or check the
status of an existing order. All new
product sales are through our world-wide
distribution channel.
Emergency
Support (After
5:30 PM Eastern
Standard Time)
[phone] 24 hour emergency technical support for
plant down or safety issues.
(Note: This service does not currently
provide emergency product shipments.)

Table of Contents i
Table Of Contents
Foreword çç Start here for best success with PanelMate 500!
Chapter 1 Overview & Notes for Previous Users of PanelMate
Chapter 2 How PanelMate Units Work Online With PLCs
Chapter 3 From Opening the Boxes to Running Online:
A Master Startup Flowchart
Chapter 4 Loading the Software To Your Personal Computer
Chapter 5 Creating a New Configuration (set of pages)
Chapter 6 Assigning PLC Communications
Chapter 7 Creating New Pages
Chapter 8 Configuring with the Virtual Mentor Capability
Chapter 9 Saving the Configuration
Chapter 10 Compiling the Configuration
Chapter 11 Transferring the Configuration to an Online Unit
Chapter 12 Running the PanelMate 500 Unit
Online With the PLC
Appendix The communication startup files, two sample configurations,
plus 12 “Helpful Hints”

Table of Contents ii

Overview of the PanelMate 500 1-1
Chapter 1
Overview of the PanelMate 500
In this chapter, you will learn:
•How you can view an overview of PanelMate 500, presented using a Microsoft tool
called PowerPoint
•PanelMate 500 theory of operation
•How the PanelMate 500 relates to the PanelMate family

1-2Overview of the PanelMate 500
Congratulations on beginning with the Getting Started manual as the place to get familiar
with PanelMate 500. Have you glanced at the Foreword section a few pages back? It
highlights the other documents you get with PanelMate 500, and provides handy phone
numbers you may want.
We recommend that you first take 20 minutes to look at the PowerPoint-based overview
described in the next section. It’s well worth the time, as a way to get the who, what,
where, when and why of PanelMate 500.
How to See a Great Overview of PanelMate 500
Included with your configuration software is a separate group of 3 diskettes as shown
below. When transferred to your PC, the file on the Overview diskette permits you to view
a colorful and informative “slide presentation” about PanelMate 500, presented with a
Microsoft tool called PowerPoint. If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your
Windows-based PC, a copy of the PowerPoint slide “viewer” is provided for your
convenience. One of the diskettes is labeled “Examples”, and contains files which are
referenced in the Appendix and in the Virtual Mentor Users Guide.
Here are the contents of the diskette pack:
Diskette Label File Contents Description
PowerPoint Viewer pptview.exe “slide show” viewer software
pptview.dll
Overview over1.ppt PowerPoint-based overview
of PanelMate 500
Examples (various files) communication startup files and
sample configurations

Overview of the PanelMate 500 1-3
How to load the files to your PC and watch the “slide show”
overview:
1. Within the Windows Program Manager of your PC, select the File Manager.
2. If you already have Microsoft PowerPoint software installed on your PC, skip to step
#3. If you do not have PowerPoint already on your PC, insert the furnished
PowerPoint Viewer disk in your PC’s floppy disk drive. Use the File Manager to copy
both the pptview.dll and pptview.exe files into a directory of your choice in your PC
environment.
3. Insert the Overview disk into your PC’s floppy disk drive. Use the File Manager to
copy the over1.ppt PowerPoint file into the same directory into which you copied the
Viewer in previous step #2. If you skipped step #2 because you already have
PowerPoint on your PC, then copy the PowerPoint files into an appropriate directory of
your choice.
4. If you already have PowerPoint present on your PC, please enter PowerPoint and use
the slide show feature to view your just-loaded over1.ppt file. If you do not have
PowerPoint on your PC, proceed to step 5, to use the viewer you just loaded.
5. From your File Manager, double click on the PowerPoint Viewer file, pptview.exe.
When the screen presents you with a directory listing, double click on the file over1.ppt
to start your slide show.