friendlyfire
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Hello,
Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple controller that can also handle a datalogging task? I have an application that requires basic control with four or so digital out, a few digital inputs, and a five or so analog in. Most of the analog in just needs to be recorded, although a couple of them feed back into the control loop.
The PLCs I've looked at don't have much memory capability and therefore won't do a good job on the data logging side. I could go with a cheap PLC plus a stand alone data logger, but there may be a requirement in future to hook everything to a SCADA system and then things will get messy!
I think I need around 100K of memory for saving the data by the way.
thanks
FF
Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple controller that can also handle a datalogging task? I have an application that requires basic control with four or so digital out, a few digital inputs, and a five or so analog in. Most of the analog in just needs to be recorded, although a couple of them feed back into the control loop.
The PLCs I've looked at don't have much memory capability and therefore won't do a good job on the data logging side. I could go with a cheap PLC plus a stand alone data logger, but there may be a requirement in future to hook everything to a SCADA system and then things will get messy!
I think I need around 100K of memory for saving the data by the way.
thanks
FF