mikeexplorer
Supporting Member
I am not sure if that is the right term, but I am looking at an idea to be able to test cables that are in production to insure they are assembled correctly. Say for example one cable has 24 conductors and what I want to be able to do is energize one wire and check on the other side that it is wired correctly (not crossed to the wrong pin) Building a PLC with enough I/O to do that can be done, however there are some cables that might have many more conductors and I would like to be able to take a slot of Inputs and Outputs and bank switch them to the conductors. So as an example, energize one output, then say take a bank of 16 inputs, connect them to the first 16 pins, check them. Then switch them to a second set of 16 wires, and so forth. The only way I could think of doing this is with a hell of a lot of small relays, but I am wondering if there is some other way. The outputs would also be "bank switched" in a case where there are many conductors.
The idea is to build the base PLC controls, then have a breakout box with the connectors specific to the cable being built. Then it could be an input of how many conductors the cable has so it knows how many to check.
Mike
The idea is to build the base PLC controls, then have a breakout box with the connectors specific to the cable being built. Then it could be an input of how many conductors the cable has so it knows how many to check.
Mike