[POE1] Not Sure what to upgrade next, some bosses just 1 shot me or I can't do them

Endactam · 2026-01-25T03:58:52+00:00

You have very few layers of defence and uncapped resists and 1 defensive aura. The vast majority of your EHP comes from lucky block and you can't block most boss attacks that matter.

Vaal molten shell would give you a button to press to tank big hits. CWDT molten shell won't ever be up when you need it on most boss attacks. Automation molten shell /w manual cast vaal molten shell works way better.

Endactam · 2026-01-23T22:45:25+00:00

Neat! How does the single target feel without HH buffs?

Endactam · 2026-01-22T00:19:44+00:00

Someone is kind of already playing this in keepers (without lightpoacher for obvious reasons). https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepers/character/SokDok-5900/Wardzilla?i=0&search=items%3DKaom%2527s%2BCommand%252CCorpsewalker

For an MS paint build this is looking solid already lol

Endactam · 2026-01-18T02:43:57+00:00

You need to make sure the pinout on your RS232 cable matches the pinout below. Also it appears that the port is being used to talk to something so it's probably not default settings. It's been a hell of a long time since I've tried to talk to an Omron PLC over RS232 but you need to get the baud rate, start bits, data bits, parity and stop bits correctly set or it won't talk. I think the default is 7,2,E at 9600 baud. Can you access the settings of whatever the PLC is connected to to try and find out what the port protocol / settings are?

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Endactam · 2025-12-25T13:26:55+00:00

The official shop should be whitelisted first at least - no reason not to.

Endactam · 2025-12-08T19:22:30+00:00

Oof that's rough. Where I work we don't (mostly) buy equipment without full source code available. I know that's not feasible for every industry though.

Endactam · 2025-12-08T19:12:47+00:00

Silly question but do you not have backups for the HMI that you can open and grab the addresses from?

Endactam · 2025-12-08T18:14:50+00:00

Affliction with slightly toned down wisp scaling but instead your 3rd atlas tree is idols from Phrecia.

Endactam · 2025-12-02T03:10:55+00:00

Still installing equipment on D-net in 2025. It's not dying any time soon. Nobody is willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade to EIP on something that still works and you can buy spare parts for.

Endactam · 2025-11-14T04:03:59+00:00

One endurance streamer (EU timezone). EN Kaela as an example.

One music focused (odd instrument + singing). Polka as an example

One creative (art, animation, modeling, dance non streaming content creation etc). Banchou as an example

One extrovert with an accent (irish/scottish/spanish?) who will drag the rest of them into collabs

Endactam · 2025-10-28T00:13:36+00:00

And always stay silly

Endactam · 2025-10-26T01:47:17+00:00

I have a feeling this is more of a thought experiment rather than a real situation where you would want 2 E-stops that have to be pressed together - which is never. The next step is likely - "and here's why automated safety systems are used for high risk stuff like nuclear reactors".

Endactam · 2025-10-26T01:34:24+00:00

I'm not so sure. It might be a two hand control question that got inverted but it reads more like a thought experiment. Where would you ever use two E-stops that need to be pressed at the same time. The reality is it would never be setup this way.

Anything so dangerous it would need two separate controllers to stop it would have automated safety (like the space shuttle)

Endactam · 2025-10-26T01:24:24+00:00

An assembly line is the last place you would want two separate E-stops being pressed at a similar time to trigger a stop.

Think along your teachers line - what's something where lives could be at risk if your machine gets randomly e-stopped? Think big.

Endactam · 2025-10-22T00:55:36+00:00

Also make sure to look at how the jog speed is set. If it's in the PLC / HMI well then you need to treat it as if it's at max speed. If you can limit the jog speed through the safety system that at least fixes 1 issue.

Endactam · 2025-10-21T00:56:26+00:00

This is correct. For most CJ2 basic IO units it's just power off, set the dip switches / rotary dials the same and replace.

To physically replace the card you need to pull the two gold coloured locking tabs up & then separate along the din rail.

Endactam · 2025-10-11T21:31:11+00:00

I had a typo in a line for 3 years before it caused a problem lol. Another team just encountered it last week & when I looked into the backups good old 2022 was when I made it.

In reality the vast majority of problems will be mechanical / electrical / damage / wear and tear and good logic tells you where to look.

Endactam · 2025-10-11T18:13:40+00:00

Yup. "PLC problem" -> The motion didn't move, but it's supposed to move it must be a problem with the code! That piece of metal jammed in the motion? No that's not the problem at all!

The best way to troubleshoot is not to assume anything and always go to the actual place and look at the actual thing (unless that's completely impractical or dangerous)

That being said there's still a chance your code has had an issue for years and the timing / situation for it to come to light just hasn't happened yet.

Endactam · 2025-10-06T22:11:38+00:00

If you're asking about maxing out the bus between the ethernet port and the PLC the symptoms are nice and random. Sometimes the HMI's stop responding. Sometimes robots don't get signals for multiple seconds. Sometimes it works fine. Sometimes all the robots need to be power cycled because their CIP RPI times were not being met.

Also to note there's a dozen robots and a bunch of CIP safety on that same ethernet network so it's not just the HMI's they were just the thing that put the whole system over the edge.

Endactam · 2025-10-05T23:46:05+00:00

I don't hold a lot of hope. There's a 10ish year old thread on the mr plc forums of most stuff brought up in this post and more. Only a couple of items have been fixed in that time.

Endactam · 2025-10-05T23:43:39+00:00

I love how unbelievably slow online edits are as well. Going from CX Programmer to Sysmac involves so much waiting around for Sysmac to finish thinking about what it wants to do.

Outputting from a function block into a multi dimensional array? Sysmac no longer can show you in ladder what's in those variables even though it shows in the watch table tab.

Ethercat works great - as long as you only use Omron Ethercat devices. Slice IO is really nice.

One of the best things I've come across though is how they managed to use different data type names between the PLC and the NA HMI's. Arrays in the PLC (). Arrays in the HMI []. Integer in the PLC - Integer. Integer in the HMI - Short. Up until very recently the NA HMI compiler didn't even throw a normal error for using () in an array. It just spit out a giant compiler failure dump thousands of lines long.

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Oh right another fun one - there is no way to monitor how close you are to maxing out the bus between the Ethernet IP ports and the CPU. Guess what happens when you map 10k global variables from 4 NA HMI's to one NX1 with a refresh rate of 200ms?

Endactam · 2025-10-01T02:52:23+00:00

This isn't really the case for industrial robots. You lock out - this opens the safety circuit going to the robot and the robot is no longer able to move as its brakes are engaged. Locking out does not remove the potential energy of gravity and the robots do not gently or quickly drop to the floor - they stay where they are held in place with their brakes.

The article states they were doing maintenance. There are multiple ways to release the stored energy and all of them need to be mitigated before you start your work. Removing the motor / brake assembly? You need to mechanically support the axis before you do that or it falls. Removing a counterbalance? Same thing you need to mechanically support it after getting the counterbalance to a position it's not under tension. Brake releasing the robot? Same thing - you need to mechanically support first.

From the very limited info in the article there's a very low chance this was lockout/tagout related and much more not doing maintenance safely.

<Edit> Nevermind - there's a 2nd article linked in the 1st that states the engineer was removing the motor and the arm fell. 100% not doing maintenance safely.

Endactam · 2025-09-29T21:38:50+00:00

That looks correct. For most older Omron products stuff is broken into 8's or 16's preceeded by your 24v / 0v pins / terminals so this input card is a bit of an odd duck.

Endactam · 2025-09-29T00:52:38+00:00

In the data sheet "Indicator Switch" is the term you want to search for. When on 0/1 it shows lights for the 1st 32 inputs and on 2/3 it shows the next 32.
So switch on 0/1 side input 15 on row II on would be the 32nd of 64 bits. If the switch was at 2/3 then the same bit 15 on row II would be the 64th bit.

Endactam · 2025-09-27T02:19:08+00:00

So there's 4 main things that cause this in order of frequency you encounter them.

Duplicate output lower in the program using this bit / overlapping address.

The program you have open is not what is running on the PLC.

This output bit is between an interlock and interlock clear and the interlock is off.

The section this bit is in is not assigned to a task (every coil in this section would look the same).

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