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... ELCSoftGP User Manual January 2005 Pub. No. MN05003002E For more information visit: www.EatonElectrical.com ...
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Preface Information in this manual is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Eaton Electrical Inc. Permission is granted to duplicate this material without modification only for your use or the internal ...
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Support Services The goal of Eaton is to ensure your greatest possible satisfaction with the operation of our products. We are dedicated to providing fast, friendly and accurate assistance. That is why we offer you so many ways to get ...
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Pub. No. MN05003002E For more information visit: www.EatonElectrical.com ...
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... Basic Introduction ............................................................................... 1-4 Skills for mouse operation................................................................... 1-5 ELCSoftGP Software Window............................................................. 1-5-1 Explanation.................................................................................................... 1-6 1-5-2 Menu Bar Overview....................................................................................... 1-9 1-6 ELCSoftGP Software Explanation in Detail....................................... 1-6-1 File .............................................................................................................. 1-16 1-6-2 Edit .............................................................................................................. 1-26 1-6-3 Compile ....................................................................................................... 1-28 1-6-4 Objects Function Explanation...................................................................... 1-29 1-6-5 View............................................................................................................. 1-52 1-6-6 Communication ...
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... Chapter 1 ELCSoftGP Operation 1.1 Hardware requirement Operation system requirement for installing ELCSoftGP should be: Items Operation system CPU Memory Hard disk capacity Display resolution Mouse Printer RS-232 1.2 Installation ■ Start-up Windows ■ Put the ELCSoftGP software CD into disk ■ Press【Start】to select Run ■ ...
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Press Next> for following steps next step ■ Press Next> for following steps next step 1-2 ...
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Enter user name and organization. ■ Press Next> for following steps next step 1-3 ...
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Press Install for following steps next step 1-4 ...
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... After finishing installing, user can execute ELCSoftGP from windows by navigating to Start>Programs>ELCGP>ELCSoftGP or by selecting the icon on the desktop. 1.3 Basic Introduction ELCSoftGP is the configuration software for the ELC GP (Graphic Panels) series of products. You can see the design results immediately on the screen so what you see in the ELCSoftGP program is what will be displayed on GP. ...
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... The shape of the mouse pointer helps determine the current function available. Mouse Pointer Name Arrow pointer 、 Resize pointer Cross pointer I I pointer 1.5 ELCSoftGP Software Window 1-5-1 Explanation Display name bar Menu bar Standard Toolbar Object Toolbar Geometric Toolbar Text/Bmp Toolbar Location Toolbar ...
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Display Name Bar: display the present file name and file directory. ■ Menu Bar: There are 9 functions (File, Edit, Compile, Object, View, Transfer, Setting, Windows and Help) in the menu bar. ■ Standard Toolbar: you can click the ...
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... The start-up display of ELCSoftGP will be shown as follows. There are four functions in menu bar for you to select. After opening file, you should set Device Type setting, including ELC or MVX Drives type…, GP Type and File Name. At the moment, you can select other functions in menu bar ...
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... Save as: save the present file to other file name. ■ Print: print present file and set printer settings. ■ Close: close present project. ■ Exit: exit ELCSoftGP. Edit (E) ■ Add a new page: Add a new page ■ Save page Bitmap: save the present page to clip board or file. ...
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Redo: do the condition before redo. (this item is for future edition) ■ Delete: delete the component in editing page. ■ Cut: delete and cut the component in editing page. ■ Copy: copy the component in editing page. ■ ...
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Compile (C) ■ Compile: to compile the finished page to download to GP. Objects (O): ■ Static Text: edit text to shown on GP screen. ■ Read Out: GP reads ELC corresponding value of register to show on GP screen. ...
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Button: it will have a series of button type for you to choose. It will be easier to design ELC program. ■ Clock Display: GP reads time/week/date from internal RTC or ELC series to display on GP screen. ■ ...
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... Write to GP: Write application program from ELCSoftGP to GP. ■ Write Start figure to GP: Write start-up display that edited by ELCSoftGP into GP. ■ Write Menu to GP: Write user-defined user menu that edited by ELCSoftGP into GP. Local Page Settings (L): ■ Page Jump Condition Settings: input the jump page condition. If the condition is held, it will jump to the designated page. ■ ...
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User could one-click right button of mouse to get pop-up menu to edit every component quickly, such as Page Jump Condition Settings, Function Key Setting, Alarm Buzzer Setting and etc. Global Settings (G): ■ System Page Jump Setting: when the ...
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... System Power ON Marco Setting used to set the interval time (when transmit instruction) and the connected device (the device that instruction needed to be transmitted) after power up. Tools (T): ■ Default Text Font used to set the font attributes that used in ELCSoftGP. ■ Communication Setting used to set the communication format between PC and GP. ■ ...
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... Version: display software version of ELCSoftGP and relative information. ■ Help: provide electronic file of ELCSoftGP user manual. Above is the basic introduction of ELCSoftGP. We will explain the functions that used frequently for detail in the following. 1.6 ELCSoftGP Software Explanation in Detail 1-6-1 File ■ ...
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... Step 4. You can use file name to record the function of program. For example, you can name ”Monitor Production Line” for the program that monitors the production line. Step 5. ELCSoftGP document usually have extension .gpf. ELCSoftGP will name your new file to be Doc0. (the default name will be Doc0.gdf, Doc1.gdf……in order. ...
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Open an Old file Method 1: Step 1. choose File (F) > Open File Step 2. Open an old file dialog box. File name key in or select the file name that you want to open. It will show ...
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User Menu Setting You can set the language, menu content or GP information according to your request. In addition to the default three languages, user can select the suitable language for themselves. The following is for detail: Step 1. ...
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Step 4. You just need to double-click the item you want to modify and it will show the dialog box for you to edit. Step 5. After editing, press 1. D/L AP GP04 The words “WAIT COMM…” will be shown ...
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Step 7. To set language you should select 6. language setting in GP04 main menu and then press Enter to set. 5. BUZZER 6 . LANGUAGE 7. PASSWORD 8. START-UP DISPLAY ■ Page property Outward to File Export all page ...
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Step 3. choose the file type you want to export (text file or Excel file) 1-22 ...
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... Method 3: Press〔Ctrl〕+〔S〕. ■ Save as Save the present file in another name into disk. ELCSoftGP will save new file to be the default name, if you want to save it to another name, please choose “Save as”. Step 1. Choose File (F) > Save as. ...
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Print Step 1. Choose File (F) >Print. Step 2. You can check the print attribute you need in the following dialog box. >print GP Page or >print Start Figure. 1-25 ...
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... Exit Choose File (F) > Exit or click before exit ELCSoftGP. 1-6-2 Edit In addition to undo, cute and paste functions of ELCSoftGP Method 1: Choose Edit (E) > ■ Add a New Page Choose Edit (E) > Add a New Page or click the button at the right upper-corner. Please confirm to save or not to add new page ...
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Save page Bitmap: Choose Edit (E) > Save page Bitmap to save the present page Bitmap to clipboard or file. ■ Undo, Redo: to back to the previous action or redo the action before execute “undo”. ■ The functions ...
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Method 2: User could one-click right button of mouse to get pop-up menu to edit every component quickly, such as copy, paste, move and etc. 1-6-3 Compile Choose Compile (C) > Compile or click the button transmit to GP04. After ...
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Objects Function Explanation You could choose Object (O) or press﹝ALT﹞+﹝O﹞to set object the management system for all objects. You need to open a page before using this function. ■ Static Text Step 1. Choose Object (O) > ...
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Step 2. Move the mouse to static text square and then double-click left button of mouse to get the following window. Step 3. You can input text and setting the font attributes (including frame setting, Align Text, Location setting and ...
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Step 4. After setting, you will get the static text can’t show completely, you should enlarge the size of text square. Step 5. Choose View (V) > Object Inspector: display all properties of objects and it also can ...
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Read Out Step 1. Choose Object (O) > Read Out or click the button pointer will be cross pointer. You can press the left button of mouse, drag to the position you need and then release to get the ...
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Step 7. The digital numbers of integer and decimal according to the setting of display value number. For example, if the real value of timer seconds, if you set integer number is 3 and decimal number is ...
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Multi-state Indicator: choose Object (O) > Indicator(16x16) > Multi-state Indicator or click the button Step 1. Choose Object (O) > Indicator(16x16) > Multi-state Indicator. If you set as the following dialog box, When the device value >= 300, current state ...
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Step 2. The settings of, Current state 0~4, bitmap set, set display sequence and device value >= range value setting. You could set the corresponding bitmap for the current state. Each current state has the corresponding range value, if device ...
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... Step 3. Choose View (V) > Object Inspector: display all properties of objects and it also can be edited and set directly. ELCSoftGP has built-in Bitmaps (including button type and arrows) for users to use. The built-in Bitmaps are saved in Program File\ Eaton\ ELCGP\ BmpGroup. will be shown. ...
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Dynamic Bitmap: Choose Object (O) > Bitmap > dynamic bitmap or click the button GP reads ELC the corresponding contacts (ON or OFF) or register data value will do comparison operation according to the corresponding base state. The setting bitmap ...
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Step 3. The settings of reference device, Total state, Current state, device value >= range value setting are the same as the Multi-state Indicator. The Total state could be set to 0~254. If you press BMP read, you will get ...
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Scale Step 1. Choose Object (O) > Scale or click the button Step 2. You could set scale position, progress direction, main scale, sub scale, Max. value, Min value, value length or font in the dialog box. Step 3. ...
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Progress Bar Step 1. Choose Object (O) > Progress Bar or click the button dialog box. Step 2. You could set reference device, value type, value length, direct set, max., and min value in the dialog box. Step 3. ...
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Step 2. You could set reference device, value type, integer number, decimal number, max. value, min. value, style, font, main scale and sub scale. Step 3. The style could be 300 or 360 degrees. It means a circle is 300 ...
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Step 2. GP will read the ELC corresponding contacts (ON or OFF) or register data and display the corresponding status on GP screen. The content of message could only be text and the text direction of LED message will be ...
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... Button ELCSoftGP provides a series of button for user to use in every kind of occasion. That will save much time in designing ELC program. Choose Object (O) > Button or click the button to get the following dialog box. The following is the introduction for the buttons. The function of button includes user level and used with Tools (T) > User-Level/Password Setting. Choose View (V) > ...
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Step 2. Double-click left button and you will get the following dialog box. Step 3. Pressing button at the right side of “Button Type” to select Set ON. Step 4. Pressing button at the right side of “Write” to select ...
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Step 10. After setting and press OK, the button will be used according to the setting unction. Multi-state: press this button and GP will send the signal to the ELC corresponding contact or register. The signal could be cycle through ...
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Step 1. The setting steps are the same as ON/OFF button. There are some setting items are different in the dialog box. Step 2. The value length could be set to 16 bits or 32 bits. Value type could be ...
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Page Jump: Pressing this button and GP will change to designate page. You can press to select or enter the page number directly. Password: There are functions of password setting and inform command in the dialog box. You could use ...
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Clock Display Step 1. Choose Object (O) > Clock Display or click the button the following dialog box. Step 2. Choose View (V) > Object Inspector: display all properties of objects and it also can be edited and set ...
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Step 5. You could select time time of ELC. Time of GP means the time you write into reference device and time of ELC means the time read the ELC time from register data. ■ Multi-state Bitmap ...
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Numeric Input You can use function key or instruction key to input figures. GP will transmit figures to the corresponding registers of ELC when pressing Enter. Step 1. Choose Object (O) > Numeric Input or click the button get ...
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Step 3. Choose View (V) > Object Inspector: display all properties of objects and it also can be edited and set directly. ■ X-Y Curve GP reads a serial figure from ELC corresponding registers to convert to XY chart to ...
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View ■ Page manager Choose View (V) > Page Manage and you will get the following dialog box. You could input page title to delete or add or insert that page or open all pages. ■ GP page Display ...
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Full Screen and Refer Device: Display full-screen and relative device name. ■ Page Workspace Display current edition pages and start-up screen. ■ Object Inspector Display all properties of objects and it also can be edited and set directly. ■ ...
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... Write to GP Step 1. After editing, Choose Communication (C) > Write click the button directly to write the program edited by ELCSoftGP into GP04. Step 2. After editing, press 1. D/L AP GP04 The words “WAIT COMM…” will be shown on GP screen GP04 hardware main menu. ...
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Write Start figure to GP Step 1. After editing, Choose Communication (C) > starting figure write in to edit start-up display to input to GP04. Step 2. After editing, press 1. D/L AP GP04 The words “WAIT COMM…” will ...
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Step 2. After clicking, it will show “Page Jump Condition Settings” dialog box. Step 3. Click reference device to input device name, device number and communication address. The devices’ name that you can set in this window are X, Y, ...
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Step 4. In condition set, you could set Bit or Value. If you set it to Bit, it will jump to designate page. If you set it to Value, you need to input value length, value type, condition and operation ...
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You can set the value length and value type that you need in value setting. Value length could be 16-bit or 32-bit. Value type could be unsigned or signed decimal, hexadecimal or BCD. Condition could be =, <, >, >=, ...
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Step 2. And then you will get the following function key setting dialog box. Step used to set button type of function key F0~F9, Up, Down, Left, Right. (you can refer to object setting.) Once you set ...
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Step 2. And then you will get the alarm setting dialog box. Step 3. The settings of alarm LED are the same as alarm settings. Once the condition is held, the alarm LED will light. ■ Hide Page Setting Step ...
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Global Settings ■ System Page Jump Setting Choose Global Settings (G) > System Page Jump Setting to get the dialog box. You should notice that System Page Jump Setting is the condition of change page of all pages but ...
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System Alarm Buzzer Setting Choose Global Settings (G) > System Alarm Buzzer Setting to set. When the condition is held, the buzzer in GP will sound. The System Alarm Buzzer Setting is for all pages and the Local Page ...
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System Power ON Marco Setting Choose Global Settings (G) > System Power ON Marco Setting to set. After power up, it will send an instruction after the setting of time interval (500ms~2000ms). 1-6-9 Tools ■ Default Text Font Choose ...
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Communication Setting Choose Tools (T) > Communication Setting to get the following dialog box. You could set 0~255 to GP Station Address. It can transmit data to GP. You could set COM1 ~ COM8 for PC COM Ports. You ...
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GP Object Communication Default Setting Choose Tools (T) > GP Object Communication Default Setting to get the following dialog box. Set the communication port and station number for all objects communicate.. ■ Change Device Type Choose ...
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User-Level/Password Setting Choose Tools (T) > User-Level/Password Setting to get the following dialog box. If there is User Level setting, GP will execute password function according to User-Level/Password Setting. The higher user level and higher priority and it needs ...
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... Help Choose Help (H) > version to display ELCSoftGP software version. Choose Help (H) > Help to get the help of ELCSoftGP software. 1-67 ...
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... The software communication settings must also be set correctly to achieve proper communication. In the ELCSoftGP software select “Tools” then “Communication Settings”. Enter the GP Station Address, PC COM Port, Baud Rate as shown in the following diagram. After entering the correct settings, the PC is capable of communicating to the GP. ...
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ELC-ELC-GP04 may connect using cable ELC-CBPCGP3 ELC-CBPCGP3 ON PC (RS-232 PIN D-SUB 9 PIN D-SUB female Communication methods: Step 1. After creating a display program, the program should be compiled before ...
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Step 3. To execute the command in the menu bar, choose “Communication” then “Write to GP” and finally select “Yes” to confirm the download. The software and hardware will both display the progress during download as shown below. GP04: RECEIVING ...
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... Step 4. Users may also read from the GP and display it on the ELCSoftGP window. The steps are similar to Downloading, except choose “Read from GP”. The software and hardware will both display the progress during download as shown below. GP04: TRANSFERING 2-4 ...
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... Chapter 3 Examples Example 1. Edit Start Figure Step 1. Open ELCSoftGP to select File（F） to create new file. Then choose View（V）> Start Figure and it will escape Start Figure Step 2. In edition display, you can choose static text or static graphics. If you choose static graphics, the mouse pointer will become to cross pointer in the working area ...
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... Step 4. In GP04, choosing 1. download program GP04 the words of “WAIT COMM…”. Step 5. In ELCSoftGP, choosing “Communication” > “Write Start figure to GP” and then press “Yes” for confirmation. It will start to download to GP and it will display the progress during download. Start figure can be downloaded without compiler. ...
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Step 6. In GP04, choosing “4. GP04 SETUP” > “8. START-UP DISPLAY” > “2. USER DEFINE” as the following and you will finish the start-up display. 5. BUZZER 6. LANGUAGE 7. PASSWORD 8 . START-UP DISPLAY Note: You can set ...
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Step 2. Model settings should be set as following: 1. Set Device Type: You should choose “EATON ELC – PB/PC/PA/PH”, GP type: you should choose ELC-GP04, File Name: you can name by yourself, here we name it “ Connection with ...
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... Step 12. Choose “Compile” > “Compile” to compile the edition page. Step 13. In TP04G, choose “1. download program TP04G show “WAIT COMM…“. Step 14. In ELCSoftGP, to choose “Communicate” > “Write to GP” and press “OK” to download program to GP04. Step 15. To modify ELC communication address according to ELC parameter setting. ...
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... The max. ELC numbers that GP04 can connect is less than 255 ELCs. Master GP connects to slave ELC in series with RS-485. In each ELC, you should give them a different communication address. The setting methods are the same as one-to-one connection but the difference is it needs to set ELC communication address in ELCSoftGP. GP04 Master Workstation ...
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