ceilingwalker
Lifetime Supporting Member
Good day all. I have kind of an odd question. Is there a way to have a processor skip an input whilst reading all the remaining input signals? What I have is 9 tanks for a cleaning process that uses a crane. Because of the cost, I could not get a servo motor and encoder approved so I had to use a single prox switch, two pushbuttons and dawgs placed over each tank, to display the cranes position, in the system. Everything works fine except now we have added two new tanks, one a process tank, the other a rinse tank. The problem is, the new process tank is identified as tank "0", then the next process tank is tank "1". So when the crane is at tank 0, it is ok. Then when it moves to tank 1, because there is a tank between 0 and 1, it now displays tank 1 as tank 2. What I'm trying to do is have the processor ignore the input as far as a counting position is concerned, when the crane lands on the rinse tank between process tanks 0 and 1. I still need that input however because that is what is used to tell the crane it is over a tank and enables the lift/drop instruction for the rinse tank. I'm sure this is probably terribly confusing but I don't know how else to ask this. It is for a SLC 5/03 processor. Thank you.