Connecting a incremental shaft encoder to a plc

Lyle

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• Apr 18, 2007

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Need some help in connecting an incremental shaft encoder to a plc.Anyone that has any connection diagrams will be very helpful.Thanks

 

abomination

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• Apr 18, 2007

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Hi,


What is the brand and model number of the encoder.

 

Lyle

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• Apr 18, 2007

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It is a RS brand and the model number is 2603897

 

Densam

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• Apr 18, 2007

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What ttype of plc and what do you want to achive, ie what ate you controlling.

 

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• Apr 18, 2007

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Hi Densam, the PLC we are using is a micrologic 1500 series from allen bradley. We would like to use the incremental shaft encoder to beable to determine the speed at which our conveyor is running. Would you beable to direct us in the right direction please thank you.

 

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• Apr 18, 2007

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You could use a High speed counter card or configure a high speed input on your plc to the A phase on the encoder.

 

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• Apr 18, 2007

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Encoder Setup

Ur wiring will propably depend on what card u will be connecting the encoder to...

Get the info on both

Rheinhardt

 

davefinic

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• Apr 19, 2007

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If you just want to know the conveyor speed then use a Kubler counter.
All you need is the counter and a prox, fit the prox to pick up a pulse from the conveyor and feed this signal to the counter which you can then program a division or multiplication factor into to display the speed.
I fitted this setup to a vertical borer recently it took only an hour to fit and £100 worth of parts.

 

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• Apr 23, 2007

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Hi, I recently used a shaft encoder with a ML1500 with much success. I was able to configure the high speed inputs on the ML1500 and setup a recycling timer that sampled and restarted the HSC every 0.5 sec. With a little math I'm able to constantly monitor the speed of the conveyor in m/s.

 

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• Apr 23, 2007

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here is something i was working on at my desk in order to add to a production machine.

it was a micrologixs 1200, but may be helpful

 

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• Apr 23, 2007

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trying to attach the file but having problems, will try again