I often wonder why, no matter how well I try to inform people of my intentions, they still take exception to those intentions?
In retrospect, and in an effort to try meet you/ye half way on this...
Hard coded -
"Fix (data or parameters) in a program in such a way that they cannot be altered without modifying the program."
I suppose it does fall down to the use of the word "for" here and how it may be interpreted...
Contr_Conn said:
No, this is hard coded limit for the processor...
This could imply that it is hard coded in the project for the controller, as I've explained, and perhaps ye both meant. But it can also be interpreted as meaning it is a fixed or hard coded limit set in the controller itself, in the firmware, which would suggest more a hardware limitation, rather than the traditional sense of hard coding in the program and then transferring to the controller.
For that reason, I would correct myself in the use of the words "slight correction" and apologize if I appeared to be negating yere statements. Instead, it would have been better if I had used another common statement of mine in these situations - "For the sake of clarity". I usually use this when I think there is something that may be confused as something else, but the comments were not untrue, just open to misinterpretation, which is how it read to me. A novice, or greater, could go away with the notion that the controller, itself, is enforcing the Node Limit feature here, when, as we know, it is not.
PBuchanan said:
...An L3 can run a small process or small production line as it's intended usage for small machine or small production lines...Could someone use it on something large?...
Size is a relative thing in this game. I would leave the words "small" and "large" out of this altogether. I did not infer size, I was inferring simply "more than one". By "whole", I meant just that - A whole process or whole production line. Not small. Not large. Just whole. Putting it at its simplest, and L3 can run more than a single machine, comfortably. You did not say process or production line initially. If you had I would not have made my comments. You initially said "machine" singular, which had suggested to me that you were classing these types of controllers as only capable of single machine control. Now you are saying process or production lines, which is better aligned with what I was inferring. So it appears that my point was taken on board while you were replying there. That's a good thing.
Because size has nothing to do with what I was pointing out - A whole production line does not mean a large production line, by whatever yardstick we might use, and the fact that I was in no way suggesting to use an L3 for a "large" application; the rest of your comments are somewhat moot, to me. So I won't comment further on them.
There is no animosity intended in that post, whatsoever. Only a "slight correction" for myself and hopefully more clarification for you on what I meant.
Regards,
George