Posts Tagged Paperless Recorders
Changing the Clock Battery on a Honeywell Paperless Recorder
Posted by danstips in Honeywell, Paperless Recorders, Trendview X-Series Paperless Recorders, Troubleshooting on April 14, 2016
Written by: Dan Weise
The installed base of Honeywell Trendview X series paperless recorders is approaching an in-service period of a decade (introduced mid-2006). Given that kind of service time, you need to be aware of the issues involved in changing the clock battery.
The replaceable clock battery serves as a backup for the on board real-time clock chip as well as the internal battery-backed static RAM. If your paperless recorder is getting old, the battery may ready for a swap-out. If so, you may need a one-day-use access code that only Honeywell can provide, so plan ahead. You don’t want to get locked out of your recorder!
Troubleshooting FTP failures on Honeywell paperless process recorders
Posted by danstips in Communications, Configuration, Ethernet, Honeywell, Paperless Recorders, Recorders, Service, Software, Trendview X-Series Paperless Recorders, Troubleshooting on May 11, 2012
One of the great things about Honeywell Trendview X-Series paperless recorders is that they communication via Ethernet. It’s great, because you can get data from your recorder anywhere on your plant network. But, since they’re network devices, you now have to understand how to troubleshoot network failures, and not just fix “regular” recorder issues.
Trendview recorders frequently connect to a local area network (LAN), so the recorded data can be easily transferred to the historian database portion of the recorder’s Trendserver Pro software (TSP). TrendServer pro uses a standard Internet file transfer protocol (FTP) to grab data from the recorder. And in a lot of cases, a software scheduler is used to grab data on a periodic basis.
So, you’re cranking along, and the recorder’s talking perfectly to the server, and then one day you see one of the dreaded FTP failure messages.
So now, what do you do to diagnose and solve the problem?
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