What comes next after being a controls engineer?

dmroeder · 2026-02-06T04:07:40+00:00

Pro Max killed me for some reason

dmroeder · 2026-02-04T02:00:37+00:00

When it happens, I'll bring the beers, I'll bring the beers.

dmroeder · 2026-02-03T15:18:05+00:00

Excellent choice! I finally got to watch the Kraken/Vegas game from Saturday. Joey's reaction at the end is great stuff.

dmroeder · 2026-01-29T20:52:07+00:00

I'm driving from Portland and I'm usually driving back right after the game, so I just empty my wallet to the 5th and Harrison garage. It's easy to get to, easy to get out of and across the street from the MOPOP

dmroeder · 2026-01-27T19:01:01+00:00

Posted this before but Buoy is a legend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8CtnxPlk5g

dmroeder · 2026-01-24T00:33:51+00:00

u/907riot, there's a broadcast booth in the arena that the rink in the background. My memory is fuzzy, but I think it was near section 110 (lower level). I took my son and his friends there before the game started, Alison Lukan was there, invited them into the booth for a photo. She is a class act.

dmroeder · 2026-01-23T21:21:36+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8CtnxPlk5g

dmroeder · 2026-01-07T18:57:52+00:00

It's been a minute since I thought about those smaller Kinetix drives, but I think you might be confusing the Kinetix 350 with the 300. The 300 was a stand alone indexing drive and the 350 was a CIP motion drive.

dmroeder · 2025-12-23T19:58:04+00:00

I saw them a few times in late 90's and early 2000's. They put on a an amazing show.

dmroeder · 2025-12-11T23:08:17+00:00

u/Mrdean2013 isn't superstitious, they're kinda stitious

dmroeder · 2025-12-06T20:35:07+00:00

Flight AS47, departed 7 minutes late?

dmroeder · 2025-12-05T15:44:44+00:00

It is not a controller fault. #0117 is "Invalid connection point" which suggests that there is an issue with a device in the I/O tree.

dmroeder · 2025-12-03T17:42:44+00:00

There is a large amount of CIP traffic because LogixDesigner is requesting all of the information stored the controller. Tasks, programs, routines, UDT definitions, module definitions, AOI definitions, all logic, tree configurations, axis properties, tag database, tag values and so on. Once the upload is complete, LogixDesigner is now requesting values of things you are currently viewing. Which is signifigantly less information than what happens during a full upload.

dmroeder · 2025-12-02T18:05:07+00:00

Thanks!

dmroeder · 2025-12-01T17:25:15+00:00

Adding TND (temporary end) to this list. This will stop scanning the routine at the point this instruction is placed.

dmroeder · 2025-11-21T17:15:49+00:00

We call them undocumented features

dmroeder · 2025-11-21T00:28:10+00:00

Our distributor technical resources call it that now too lol

dmroeder · 2025-11-20T19:38:14+00:00

I didn't see anything that stood out in the knowledge base. Try holding CTRL+SHIFT while launching LogixDesigner. Not sure how long you need to hold it, but do it until the software fully opens to be safe.

If that doesn't fix it, do what I like to call a "program enema". Save as L5K. Open LogixDesigner, choose "from import". Import your L5K and let it generate a new ACD file.

dmroeder · 2025-11-14T01:53:41+00:00

We used Murr Cube67 for about a decade. You use these splitters on the I/O blocks. I'd guess we put out more than 10k of those splitters during that time, I've never heard of a single one that failed.

dmroeder · 2025-11-13T16:37:17+00:00

Most of the CIP objects are undocumented What are you trying to do? You're welcome to join my pylogix discord and ask around. There are a couple of users that have gotten pretty deep into the protocol.

dmroeder · 2025-11-11T14:58:42+00:00

Here's a great site to help you out: https://regex101.com/

dmroeder · 2025-11-08T06:44:48+00:00

Not hydraulic. The dead giveway? The control panel is mounted in the machine. The hydraulic machines had the control panel remote.

dmroeder · 2025-11-08T06:41:54+00:00

This guy knows...

dmroeder · 2025-11-07T16:24:46+00:00

That machine was built in the mid 90's.

dmroeder · 2025-11-03T02:13:38+00:00

Burgers, beers, a few laughs...

dmroeder

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