termus123
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Hi, I'm new to PLCs and my boss kind of forced a project on me regarding PLCs.
I am using a OMRON touch screen, CP1L, CP1W-AD041 and a 8BER
Logically the project is very simple, the ship has 8 ballast tanks to balance the ship, there is a switch for fill, a switch for empty and a stop switch for each of the 8 tanks.
I need to get my PLC to display a graph representation 0-100% of the current water level of its designated tank on the touch screen. To measure the water level I'm using a 4-20mA sensor.
On CX-Designer, the interface was a piece of cake to set up, however, the graphs on there I have no idea how to get that working.
The problem is that I've never touched a PLC or seen one in my life so I can't for the life of me figure out what I need to do in CX Programmer to get that graph working or if I even need to program anything? I'm assuming since the analogue sensor 4-20mAs is detecting the water pressure I need to do something in the CX Programmer to translate that into 0-100%? Or is it going to do that automatically? Where do I start?
I am using a OMRON touch screen, CP1L, CP1W-AD041 and a 8BER
Logically the project is very simple, the ship has 8 ballast tanks to balance the ship, there is a switch for fill, a switch for empty and a stop switch for each of the 8 tanks.
I need to get my PLC to display a graph representation 0-100% of the current water level of its designated tank on the touch screen. To measure the water level I'm using a 4-20mA sensor.
On CX-Designer, the interface was a piece of cake to set up, however, the graphs on there I have no idea how to get that working.
The problem is that I've never touched a PLC or seen one in my life so I can't for the life of me figure out what I need to do in CX Programmer to get that graph working or if I even need to program anything? I'm assuming since the analogue sensor 4-20mAs is detecting the water pressure I need to do something in the CX Programmer to translate that into 0-100%? Or is it going to do that automatically? Where do I start?