Ken Roach
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I'm being asked to bid a control system using Siemens S7-1500 controllers, which I don't have any experience with.
The digital, analog, and Profibus I/O are things I can figure out, but I don't know how to connect an SSI encoder to an S7-1500. This control system requires four of them.
They aren't doing motion control; they're strictly to monitor speed and position of two parallel machine elements.
I see that there's a "SSI Technology Object" that looks like a feature you have to enable in the S7-1500.
But what I/O module can I use to connect an SSI encoder ?
The digital, analog, and Profibus I/O are things I can figure out, but I don't know how to connect an SSI encoder to an S7-1500. This control system requires four of them.
They aren't doing motion control; they're strictly to monitor speed and position of two parallel machine elements.
I see that there's a "SSI Technology Object" that looks like a feature you have to enable in the S7-1500.
But what I/O module can I use to connect an SSI encoder ?