Nope, this thread boils down to : take a look at the Siemens S7-1200
Am looking for plcs around $300 that don't force me into ladder only.
I care not about your ignorance to a language.
I agree with you. Use s7-1200 and SCL, that is it!!!
Nope, this thread boils down to : take a look at the Siemens S7-1200
Am looking for plcs around $300 that don't force me into ladder only.
I care not about your ignorance to a language.
Seriously - go back and read it. This fellow went to the trouble to try to add to the discussion and see how you responded.
If you are comfortable with your response so be it. I can live with ignoring your posts.
He tried to summarize my post inaccurately, and then followed up w/ structured text isn't worth looking at (basically) on a I love structured text post.
And I'm the *******?
My goal was to get other people interested in the language, because until people start demanding it, we won't see it in the lower level processors.
Seriously - go back and read it. This fellow went to the trouble to try to add to the discussion and see how you responded.
If you are comfortable with your response so be it. I can live with ignoring your posts.
ignoring me is a threat?
You do know this a left brain forum, right?
He tried to summarize my post inaccurately, and then followed up w/ structured text isn't worth looking at (basically) on a I love structured text post.
And I'm the *******?
My goal was to get other people interested in the language, because until people start demanding it, we won't see it in the lower level processors.
And to see what others where doing, anyone else using the language, maybe some low level plcs.
Not some stroking contest.
I don't know it so I'm going to diss it and tell women how they should feel about their feelings. (emblished on the women part)
Can anyone tell me how to block a user on here?
And you won't because it is a leftover from assembler, and it is here only because some of us are still used to it and still count the bits in the memory (while we have a MB free)..
I'll chip in with that I use ST/SCL for 50% of my code, ladder for 40% of my code, and IL/STL for 10% of my code.
I hope to totally get rid of IL/STL.
As I see it, there is no reason for that ST/SCL should be limited to "high-end" PLCs. IMO, if a PLC brand does not support ST/SCL, then that PLC brand is not worth using. As far as I know, ALL the major PLC brands support ST/SCL, so it is the closest to a standardized PLC language that there is (I do know that there are minute differences between brands, but still...). There are too many small variations in Ladder for it to be a universal standard.
Curious, how often is it a programming issue versus something else?
Generally speaking, my experience when I have gotten calls from "bubba", it's usually because "bubba" goes online with a PLC and uses this as his primary troubleshooting tool and quickly abandons everything else (including looking at the alarm information on the HMI!). They can't follow something in the PLC so they pass the buck and call to me. I arrive and and perform the basic troubleshooting "bubba" should have done in the first place and point out the mechanical or electrical component failure that is often the cause.
As far as I know, ALL the major PLC brands support ST/SCL, so it is the closest to a standardized PLC language that there is (I do know that there are minute differences between brands, but still...). There are too many small variations in Ladder for it to be a universal standard.