The_Wanderer
Member
Hello,
We have the following system: A Mitsubishi A1SJH PLC with a couple I/O cards and a profibus master. 5 Seperate profibus nodes, with discrete I/O cards only at the moment. As this was our first machine with Profibus (we manage to use simple block or rack PLC's for almost every mahine), we had some help setting it up. Unfortunately the "help" was not helpful-- as rsdoran says:
"Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand."
Told me very little, showed me nothing, was only involved with himself...
Now the customer wants to add a thermocouple card to the profibus nodes. Fine. Have the card (WAGO #750-469), which looks fine and comes with an easy to follow wiring diagram, but no tips on how to read the value into my PLC.
I have written the program to operate the machine based on the thermocouple reading being in a certain data register, and am ready to test, but don't know how to get the reading from the card to the data register. I gather that it is a combination of FROM and TO, but no idea FROM and TO what.
Now the machine is on site, so I can't play with it. The customer is yelling for this addition, the man who sold me the WAGO card promised me help on Thursday afternoon (it is now the NEXT wednesday!), and even the guy who "helped" the first time has moved jobs and is unavailable. I asked for training when we first built the machine, and was told that it wasn't worth it, as we don't use the system enough. Now I am being asked why I didn't get training... mddr
Any pointers? Help? Wickedly evil ways of exacting revenge on everyone involved?
We have the following system: A Mitsubishi A1SJH PLC with a couple I/O cards and a profibus master. 5 Seperate profibus nodes, with discrete I/O cards only at the moment. As this was our first machine with Profibus (we manage to use simple block or rack PLC's for almost every mahine), we had some help setting it up. Unfortunately the "help" was not helpful-- as rsdoran says:
"Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand."
Told me very little, showed me nothing, was only involved with himself...
Now the customer wants to add a thermocouple card to the profibus nodes. Fine. Have the card (WAGO #750-469), which looks fine and comes with an easy to follow wiring diagram, but no tips on how to read the value into my PLC.
I have written the program to operate the machine based on the thermocouple reading being in a certain data register, and am ready to test, but don't know how to get the reading from the card to the data register. I gather that it is a combination of FROM and TO, but no idea FROM and TO what.
Now the machine is on site, so I can't play with it. The customer is yelling for this addition, the man who sold me the WAGO card promised me help on Thursday afternoon (it is now the NEXT wednesday!), and even the guy who "helped" the first time has moved jobs and is unavailable. I asked for training when we first built the machine, and was told that it wasn't worth it, as we don't use the system enough. Now I am being asked why I didn't get training... mddr
Any pointers? Help? Wickedly evil ways of exacting revenge on everyone involved?