irondesk40
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Have a application that involves a machine that we are getting that i have not see yet that will have a feed belt to feed material. The belt i was told is controlled by sometype of drive unit that has a speed pot that you adjust to control the speed. The speed of this belt is 0-10ypm.
I will need to know the speed this belt is running for a down stream piece of equipment.
Open to any suggestions as to best way to know the speed this motor is running.
I was thinking possibly a prox switches used to detect a screw mounted on one of the ends of the rollers and feed it into a plc and count the revolutions for a time period.
Was wondering if there was someway to mount sometype of contact type roller/sensor setup on the belt and have it feeding into a redlion type display to display the YPM and then get a 0-10v or 4-20ma signal out of the redlion type unit that i could feed into a plc and then scale that input to be the YPM range for the down stream equipment it will be connected to.
Does this make sense or am i way out in left field. Anyone that has ever done this type of application and would like to give some advice it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I will need to know the speed this belt is running for a down stream piece of equipment.
Open to any suggestions as to best way to know the speed this motor is running.
I was thinking possibly a prox switches used to detect a screw mounted on one of the ends of the rollers and feed it into a plc and count the revolutions for a time period.
Was wondering if there was someway to mount sometype of contact type roller/sensor setup on the belt and have it feeding into a redlion type display to display the YPM and then get a 0-10v or 4-20ma signal out of the redlion type unit that i could feed into a plc and then scale that input to be the YPM range for the down stream equipment it will be connected to.
Does this make sense or am i way out in left field. Anyone that has ever done this type of application and would like to give some advice it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks