plc_padawan
Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2004
- Posts
- 71
Hello again everyone,
About a month ago I bought 90 micro plc and a 12vdc power supply off of ebay. I got an old panel that was being thrown away at work and fashioned myself a plc training board. After a quick visit to radio shack to get some lights and switches I was up and running in no time. What I ended up with is 7 inputs: start/stop/sw1/pb1,2,3,4
and 6 outputs: Light 1/2/3/4/5/6
Now I've spent the last couple of weeks getting pretty good at writing programs(cimplicity) that make the lights do pretty much whatever I want them to do. All the relay functions, timers, counters, one shots, etc. I'm pretty comfortable with.
What I want to know is if any of you guys think it would be possible to use the existing I/O's i have, to use function blocks(i.e. math functions,data functions).. I don't know a heck of a lot about how to utilize these functions or even how many my older plc will support, but if anyone has any ideas for something *simple* to start with, I would like to give it a try. I believe once I do a few simple ones, the more complex ones won't seem so bad.
thanks
Tom
About a month ago I bought 90 micro plc and a 12vdc power supply off of ebay. I got an old panel that was being thrown away at work and fashioned myself a plc training board. After a quick visit to radio shack to get some lights and switches I was up and running in no time. What I ended up with is 7 inputs: start/stop/sw1/pb1,2,3,4
and 6 outputs: Light 1/2/3/4/5/6
Now I've spent the last couple of weeks getting pretty good at writing programs(cimplicity) that make the lights do pretty much whatever I want them to do. All the relay functions, timers, counters, one shots, etc. I'm pretty comfortable with.
What I want to know is if any of you guys think it would be possible to use the existing I/O's i have, to use function blocks(i.e. math functions,data functions).. I don't know a heck of a lot about how to utilize these functions or even how many my older plc will support, but if anyone has any ideas for something *simple* to start with, I would like to give it a try. I believe once I do a few simple ones, the more complex ones won't seem so bad.
thanks
Tom