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Solving general programming/connection problems with the SIF Adapter / ISA

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I am having trouble programming my EM250/EM260 with an ISA, what can I do? I am having trouble connecting to my EM250/EM260 with my ISA, how do I resolve this? I am seeing that the SIF shift register is not functioning correctly. What can I do?

 

There are a number of issues that can occur while using the SIF connection with the ISA.  Most can be resolved using the following five steps:

  • open the SIF Explorer utility, which is found in the SIF\bin subdirectory of the xIDE installation (same place that em2xx_load.exe lives). There should be a sifexplorer.exe binary there that you can run.
  • Inside SIF Explorer, choose Configuration >> Auto-detect SIF >> Remove SIF Pods.
  • Select All, then proceed with removal. 
  • Then go back to the Add/remove SIF Pods menu, choose Auto-detect SIF, select the MAC address of your network card that’s on the subnet with the ISAs, and then proceed with a scan.  
  • Grab the ISAs you want to talk to, and then OK the dialogs. You should now be able to hopefully communicate with your ISA in question.