Monitoring Functions & Conditional Pausing - LS Electric XGB PLC from AutomationDirect

the xg5000 software has a very powerful monitor mode which allows the user to Monitor and control variables troubleshoot code and interact with their project in many ways we cover adding variables to the monitor window in a separate video and we can view the variables here let's interact with the variables in the logic and monitor window and explore the conditional pause function of the software we have two ways of editing variables while in monitoring mode we can edit the variable from from the monitor window or we can edit it directly from the logic if we want to edit it from the logic we can double click on the variable in the logic this works for any of the xgb IEC programming languages it will bring up the change current value screen which allows us to alter the current value a Boolean variable will have a true false option while other variables may have slightly different data entry options depending on the variable type if we want to view variables from multiple programs or non-sequential logic then the easiest and often only way to do this is using the monitor window we can edit the value of the variable using the value column if we double click here it will open the same change current value screen that we saw when we monitored the variables from the logic we can set test 4 to true and we see the monitor window change to reflect the new value let's do the same thing for test one and test two uhoh test one and test two won't show the value change when we edit them if we look at the device /v variable column we see that test one is tied to an input direct variable and if we look at the logic in our program we see that test two is the output of a rung of logic the PLC is controlling test one based on the input status and it's controlling test two based on the logic state of the rung controlling it in these situations forcing the variables will allow us to still control the value of the variable forcing variables is covered in another help topic please refer to it for more detail on how to force PLC controlled variabl often when logic is executing several variables might trigger the same action or activity on the part of the PLC this can make confirmation of which variable actually trigger the action difficult to trace to address this the xg5000 software has the ability to pause the software monitoring based on a preset condition or conditions when the monitoring pauses all variable values will be frozen in the software but the CPU will continue functioning normally to set conditions for pausing the monitoring we go to the monitor menu and select pausing conditions this opens the pausing conditions popup window in this window we can set up various conditions that will pause the monitoring these conditions will be compared between a selected variable and a preset value there are several logic operators that may be used for the compare and you can set multiple conditions with one or multiple variables for our example let's set up a condition that will pause monitoring if test 4 is ever equal to one we can check the box to enable this condition and if we now change the value of test 4 281 we see it pauses the monitoring and gives us a pop-up window to indicate this all values in the software for both the monitor window and the logic window are frozen where they were when the pause occurred to resume we can go to monitor resume