I have a project where we are life cycling a piece of equipment. The cycle lasts a week long and has 6 modes of operation where 5 of the modes will energize an output and the 6th will have no outputs energized. Each mode of the cycle can vary in length from 30min, to 60, 120, 240, 330, and 1440min.
I have programmed a SLC-100 in the past for another test but it was rather simple with only 4 outputs with each one energized for 36s in succession of each other. It was something we had laying around and we had the handheld programmer for it and it works (and still working).
We also have a MicroLogix 1500 laying around unused but not the software to program it.
I was thinking we could pickup another SLC-100 for cheap and use that....but with its older limits (timer max at 999.99, 32 timers/counters max etc.) it seems like that would make programming more lengthy, complicated, and difficult trying to map out the program on paper
I was wondering if it does make more sense to stick with the 1500 and get the software as that would be easier to program?
or
If there is anything else out there that would be better suited?
I have programmed a SLC-100 in the past for another test but it was rather simple with only 4 outputs with each one energized for 36s in succession of each other. It was something we had laying around and we had the handheld programmer for it and it works (and still working).
We also have a MicroLogix 1500 laying around unused but not the software to program it.
I was thinking we could pickup another SLC-100 for cheap and use that....but with its older limits (timer max at 999.99, 32 timers/counters max etc.) it seems like that would make programming more lengthy, complicated, and difficult trying to map out the program on paper
I was wondering if it does make more sense to stick with the 1500 and get the software as that would be easier to program?
or
If there is anything else out there that would be better suited?