The Weatherford 8500 driver enables the monitoring of real-time data and immediate control of Rod Pump Controller (RPC) devices and other Weatherford controllers used at wellhead facilities. It provides an easy and reliable way to read and write data to Weatherford series devices via the Weatherford 8500 protocol through client applications (including HMI, SCADA, Historian, MES, ERP, and countless custom applications).
3/23/2023
2/23/2021
6/2/2020
6/27/2019
11/14/2018
4/4/2017
5/3/2016
10/20/2015
11/13/2012
Updated the driver with the new Connection Sharing feature.
6/26/2012
Added the new device-level internal tag "_FailedConnection" that indicates the driver failed on its attempt to connect to the device.
2/21/2012
Fixed a Communication Serialization bug that prevented the driver from releasing communication control when there were many memory and/or Write Only tags with scan rates.
10/24/2011
7/25/2011