cardosocea
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I did lab 1, 3, and 4 already because I have a PLC textbook that covered it. The rest are alien to me and the textbook. I am working full time right now as an electronics technician so no time for trial and error and the class ends in 2 weeks.
What is full time for you? 12 hours, 7 days a week?
After reading this I very much doubt you are an electronics technician working in a plant. How many PCB's have you repaired compared to how many PLC modules have you replaced?No idea why the electronics degree requirements need PLC but my guess is the college's focus is broad-based learning, "just in case you might do PLC in the future" yeah ok. -____-
The time where an electronics technician was a guy desoldering and soldering chips and checking stuff on the oscilloscope is long gone... you now replace boards and a lot of the time your knowledge of electronics is not useful. On the other hand, opening up a PLC program and understanding the error or adding a bit extra to do something else is valuable for companies and that is precisely what colleges are trying to prepare you for. Except you seem to know a bit more than everyone else already... apart from PLC's that is.
Does the PLC technician at the plant have a test rack you can use? Have you asked to use it?
Why no try and do the other exercises one by one and come back to us with the stuff you got stuck on?