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This section gives an illustrative example of using the tag scaling feature. Your settings may be different depending on your project’s configuration.

Exercise: Using the Scale Mode feature with real tags

In this example, a Celsius temperature acquired from a remote tag will be converted to Fahrenheit using the [Scale Mode] feature.

a) Create two [ INT ] tags named “Celsius” and “Fahrenheit”. Enter the I/O Device and address as shown below

(Note: In this example, the user has already defined an I/O device named “PLC.STATION”. If your I/O device has a different name, then enter that name into the [ I/O Device ] field. Likewise, if the I/O address format is different, then use the correct format for your PLC).

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