Lookout and allen bradley micrologix

Hi,
Does anybody know (or have experience) of connecting Lookout to an A-B Micrologix
1500?
I guess I could use the RSLink OPC server (or even DDE link) as mentioned
in another post, but I know that the 1500 is very similar to the SLC range
so can I use that?
Thanks,
John

Hi Carlos,
Thanks.
I would love to see that document. Do you know if you can use Linx Lite?
John
"Carlos Barberino" wrote:
>>"John Dunlop" wrote>>Hi,>>Does anybody know
(or have experience) of connecting Lookout to an>A-B Micrologix>1500?>>I
guess I could use the RSLink OPC server (or even>DDE link) as mentioned>in
another post, but I know that the 1500 is very>similar to the SLC range>so
can I use that?>>Thanks,>>John>>Hi John,>I've used Lookout with Micrologix
1500 and you are correct. We can use the>RSLinx OPC Server to communicate
with Lookout Client and actually I wrote>a document that explain how to do
that and I'll be glad of sending that to>you if you want. Another option
is using PLC5 object in Look
out.

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