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This video will show how to use WAGO Ethernet Settings to configure a 750-880 PLC.
You can start by going to the wago.us website, and under the 'downlaods', 'Automation', 'WAGO
I/O System', you can download Ethernet Settings, and while your there you can you'll also want
to grab the WAGO USB driver as well. After the downloads are complete, you'll want
to go ahead and install the WAGO Ethernet Settings program.
And when thats done, you'll want to install the USB driver.
You might have to reboot your computer after installing the USB driver, but that depends
on your system. We're now ready to install the 750-923 service
cable into the USB port of your computer. and then using a screw driver, open up the
trap door that conceals the serial cable connection. And go ahead and connect the other end of
that cable to the PLC. You will also want to connect a standard CAT-5
patch cable from your computer into the PLC's ethernet port.
Alright, go ahead and start WAGO Ethernet Settings, and now we're going to connect using
the serial cable that we just connected. So, click on 'settings', then 'communications'
and make sure you're using the right com port and you should see the PLC come up.
Now we want to make sure that, um, that we put the PLC on the same subnet as our computer,
so going into the network settings we can identify the IP address that your PC has.
and then we want to choose an IP address for the PLC on that same subnet.
In this case it's '192.168.1' and we're just going to make it '.3' for the PLC.
Then we just want to click on the 'write' button at the top to make that change.
OK, now we're going to go back into the 'settings>communication' and change the connection to, uh, ethernet.
and we're going to put in the IP address that we just used for the PLC, so we will no longer
need the serial cable to make the communication with the PLC.
If you don't know the IP Address of the PLC, um, Ethernet Settings can actually search
for the device. You just give it a subnet, and you click 'search device' and it will
interrogate the entire subnet for you. So at this point, the PLC has been configured,
ah, with its IP address and you can start programming it, ah, but I also wanted to show
you some other things that that Ethernet Settings can do that you might find useful.
Click the 'WMB' button and it will take you right to the web based management or you can
type in to the IP address of the address bar. and under 'disk info', it shows you how much
of your internal flash memory is being used and since there is an FTP client, or FTP server
on the PLC you can just type in the, uh, IP Address, um, in windows explorer and log in
with the 'admin', 'wago' credentials, and you can actually view what is stored on the
filesystem. and in this example, I've got, um, an unknown
program loaded on the PLC and I'm going to show you how to clear out the flash memory
using Ethernet Settings. So if you click on the 'format' button, that
formats the flash to the FAT filesystem. and then you want to click 'extract', and
there's a .zip file thats hidden from view and that will, um, uncompress a default configuration
back onto the flash memory. and then click 'restart'.
So if we go back into our ftp client, you can see its, um, back to the original default
state. So lastly, uh, one of the big advantages of
the 750-88X series are the DIP Switches. So if you just remove power, you can actually
set the, um, IP Address just using a screw driver and setting the last octet
um, to what ever you want to set the IP to. and this doesn't require any software at all
to configure it. Basically, it will be 192.168.1 and then the
last octet of your choosing. So, you can see here in Ethernet Settings,
um, you can tell that the DIP switches are being used by, uh, the network tab and it
says DIP switch. It also can be seen on the identification tab at the bottom next to the
IP Address. and that concludes this video, thank you.