Hi everyone,
I have purchased the K8045 LCD kit and I have a PLC that I would like it to interface with. All I want to do is have the LCD screen display a message that is sent to the serial from the PLC. This message will actually be a number that is constantly changing. Does anyone know how to program the LCD to do this?
Thanks,
David
Make no mistakes: The K8045 is not programmable, it will only display the text that it receives via its serial link.
You will have to find out how to program your PLC so that it sends the correct serial data.
Thank you for the response. Is there something that I need to do to get the LCD to display the data from the serial port? Or should the serial data override the display? Right now the only things that I can get it to display are the screen with the numbers, a message that I wrote in for message 1, and a blank screen. I am able to send a serial signal from the PLC so that shouldn’t be a problem.
You need to set the dip switches so that the unit displays the serial data that comes in (see manual).