Hi,
It is great that a forum exists to create many opportunities to discuss about Emerson products.
I am currently figuring out a good way to manage WIOC network so all the field wireless devices have good, reliable connections.
Specifically, there are 2 WIOC simplex cards, each connected to 86 4320 Wireless Position Monitors, and each position monitor bursts 6 variables every 60 seconds. (Message 0: position, time stamp 0, Message 1: battery life, temperature, time stamp 1, and supply voltage. Message 2 is diabled)
With this configuration, I'm finding that there are few number of position monitors disconnecting and re-connecting to WIOC from time to time, causing intermittent IO_BAD alarms showing up on operator screen.
I believe I've drilled down in DeltaV Diagnostics, AMS Device Manager, and AMS Wireless SNAP-ON applications to find any WIOC wireless network performance parameters I can monitor on, but I have yet to find any useful ones.
Worst issue is, currently I am unable to configure any position monitor's burst message configuration (message 0, 1, 2) using AMS Device Manager at all. All the application return is a blank dialog message with "Finish" button, even though I haven't even got to see the parameter list yet.
Wireless Network Capacity Estimator web page indicates I have populated 86% of the network capacity for a WIOC. However, the note that only one variable per device being transferred is assumed is making me worried that purchasing additional WIOC is going to be needed.
I sincerely ask for everyone in this forum for constructive comments with possible workarounds or troubleshooting tips.
Thank you.