Alalog Output Scaling, Please help !

richleva

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Hello,

I need to control an Acid pump at a water treatment plant, Using an analogue output of a micrologix 1400. This PLC only has 0-10V analogue output card. So I installed a 500Ohm resister across the pair of my instrument cables, to get my 4-20Ma. So at 2Votls will be my 4mA and 10 Volts will be 20mA.

PLC Resolution (0-4095)

Acid pump 1
0-60 L/H

Acid pump 2
0-12000 strokes per hour

In The PLC. I'm using RXLogix micro developer, and I'm using the SCP instruction to scale

I tried using one SCP block, but the input number that is entered is much lower than what is display in the pump

Example:

F8:1

input: F8:1 --->> entered 7 l/h in the HMI

input min: 0
input MAX: 60

scale min: 819
Scale max: 4095

Output O:0/0 --->> Pump said about 12 l/h


I tried using two SCP block per pump, to scale input number from the HMI to 4-20 and the second would scale the 4-20 to the PLC 12 bit analog card (4095)

but I got similar results...

SCP 1

Input: F8:1 ---->> entered 15l/h in the HMI
input min: 0
input MAX: 60

scale min: 4
scale max 20
Output F8:2 ---->> 8 mA

SCP2

Input: F8:2 ---->> 8 mA

Input min: 4
input max: 20

scale min: 819
scale max: 4095

Output: O:0/0 ----->> 1638


The results for example

today I entered 30 L/H in the HMI the pump said 41.8

for the other pump I entered 6000 strokes per hour, pump would say 12000 strokes per hour.

PLEASE HELP, if anyone has ideas....


Thanks everyone
 
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The 1400 analog output can only source into 1000 ohms or greater. The 500 ohm resistor is loading down the output so you will never reach full scale.
 
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