Displaying Memory Consumption

In Control Expert you can monitor the I/O memory consumption by viewing the bus properties. Use one of these methods:

  • In the Project Browser , right-click Project > Configuration > EIO Bus > Properties

  • In the Project Browser , right-click Project > Configuration > EIO [Quantum or Modicon X80] Drop > Properties

  • In background of the EIO Bus window, right-click Bus properties .

  • In the Edit menu, scroll to Bus properties .

The IO-Memory screen looks like this:

Exceeding EIO Limitations

Control Expert displays a detected error in the log window if one of these events occurs:

  • The size of the EIO memory exceeds 1400 input bytes or 1400 output bytes.

  • The size of the EIO network exceeds 32768 input bytes or 24576 output bytes.

  • The size of the EIO network exceeds 80% of the 32768 input bytes or 80% of the 24576 output bytes.