Sorry, it works from my PC but maybe only because I'm automatically signed in to Linkedin.
If you contact me via the email address at http://www.kineticart.co.uk/Contact.asp I'll send you an invitation to join the group.
You could alternatively go to www.linkedin.com and Search Groups (drop...
Cloning a PLC OS/confgiguration is an area that I'm not that familiar with.
We had to have a spare PLC in our 7 PLC sysetm but it had to be useable with different code sets. I asked our Beckhoff Technical Support whetehr we could just copy and keep 7 spare Compact Flashes and the said no - but...
Here are some usefull guides provided by our UK Beckhoff agent Hayes Control Systems. These documents helped me when I was starting out.
http://www.kineticart/downloads/Getting_Started_with_TwinCAT_System_Manager.pdf
http://www.kineticart/downloads/Getting_Started_with_CX1000.pdf...
I think the problem may be that you need to have the PLC in run or free run mode (not configuration mode) to get the outputs to change state.
There are a few getting started tricks that, once you know them make things abit easier. I have recently completed a very large Beckhoff TwinCAT system...