plc egg timer

How can I make a timer in RSLOGIX 500 so that I can set the time it times from say a Pannel View 550??????

Do some homework and read the chapter on addressing and configuring tagnames.

Dave

You need to focus on the Panel View software for your homework. The timer in RS Logix will just be a regular timer, you will just tell it the preset value from your Pannel View program.

Yes, but a really good egg timing PLC setup will ask you how you want the egg cooked (soft or hard boiled, though the health department frowns own the soft boiled now). It may ask you the altitude above sea level to vary the time because of the different temperature of the boiling water. Better yet, there should be a altitude barometer attached through an analog input card to automatically determine this correction. You know how those pesky highs and lows can dramatically affect your eggs. Maybe the egg could be held above the water until a thermometer, again input through the analog card, says the water is to the boiling point then actuate an output dropping the egg in, ever so gently. Perhaps the display could then should show a graphic of the egg with a type of bargraph rising as the egg gets closer to being done. Then the PLC should ring an output attached to an alarm. The screen should also warn the person cooking to beware of the hot steam. Perhaps, though, an output through some sort of mechanism could tip the pot to drain. Then there's the possibility of mechanisms to gently crack the egg. We won't let the PLC eat the egg. We can't let it have all the fun. Lots of opportunity for creativity.

I know it sounds like something Carakatous Potts would make in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Ian Fleming has nothing on me.

bernie_carlton said:

...actuate an output dropping the egg in, ever so gently.

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Hey Bernie, how do you DROP something, yet do it "ever so gently"???...

I think we're gonna need an embedded (literally) controller inside that egg for temperature, position, etc. feedback...

beerchug

-Eric

that's Right

bernie_carlton ,Eric
You are both right we must do all of that and more .because eggs is very important to Human.

Lets don't forget a four axis scara with vacuum head attachment...
That should eliminate the dropping issue and it can close the carton and put it back in the fridge when its done!

Dave