wildswing
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Hey fellas,
Educate me here. I know nothing about the MicroLogix family of controllers. How does the MicroLogix (1500 in particular) compare with the SLC 5/04?
I ask because our strapping machine OEM has presented us with an upgrade option to go from steel to plastic strap. Their proposal includes adding a new elecrical enclosure with a MicroLogix 1500 to control the new strapping head only. Our existing SLC 5/04, which now controls the entire machine including the outgoing hydraulic steel strap head, would still be used to do everything else.
My issue with this is that we don't have any MicroLogix on site so I'd have to buy added spares and it would be a on-off oddball in the facility. I'm also not thrilled about having to watch 2 controllers when troubleshooting. I'm sure the techs wouldn't like this either. Compound that with it being a totaly foreign controller to us. I'd like to propose to the OEM that we replace their MicroLogix with a rack of Flex IO (we have flex spares on site) as RIO from the SLC 5/04.
Reading through the AB web site I ran across the 1747-SN module (Remote I/O Scanner Module). Would this suffice to talk to RIO Flex IO? I'd welsome any insights into it's use or in my idea in general.
Educate me here. I know nothing about the MicroLogix family of controllers. How does the MicroLogix (1500 in particular) compare with the SLC 5/04?
I ask because our strapping machine OEM has presented us with an upgrade option to go from steel to plastic strap. Their proposal includes adding a new elecrical enclosure with a MicroLogix 1500 to control the new strapping head only. Our existing SLC 5/04, which now controls the entire machine including the outgoing hydraulic steel strap head, would still be used to do everything else.
My issue with this is that we don't have any MicroLogix on site so I'd have to buy added spares and it would be a on-off oddball in the facility. I'm also not thrilled about having to watch 2 controllers when troubleshooting. I'm sure the techs wouldn't like this either. Compound that with it being a totaly foreign controller to us. I'd like to propose to the OEM that we replace their MicroLogix with a rack of Flex IO (we have flex spares on site) as RIO from the SLC 5/04.
Reading through the AB web site I ran across the 1747-SN module (Remote I/O Scanner Module). Would this suffice to talk to RIO Flex IO? I'd welsome any insights into it's use or in my idea in general.