For the past 6 months or so, since I discovered this forum, I have been realizing that my tech school education just touched the surface of logix programming. I feel I know just enough to be dangerous some times.
Any way I was reading a post by Ron about online programming. In school we did everything offline. Everything around the plant is on 24/7 so I don't have a processor to play with. My question is if I want to add say an input to a rung and I do it online What happens when I download to the processor? What happens when the test functions are used? I have not used the single or continous functions yet. Will they turn on real world I/O etc? Also, will these edits now work in the program or do you need to "assemble" the edits. Could someone walk me through how offline editing is don. Finally, I don't know what the drop down arrow box is about that has "raw" or "^A" is all about.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer.
Any way I was reading a post by Ron about online programming. In school we did everything offline. Everything around the plant is on 24/7 so I don't have a processor to play with. My question is if I want to add say an input to a rung and I do it online What happens when I download to the processor? What happens when the test functions are used? I have not used the single or continous functions yet. Will they turn on real world I/O etc? Also, will these edits now work in the program or do you need to "assemble" the edits. Could someone walk me through how offline editing is don. Finally, I don't know what the drop down arrow box is about that has "raw" or "^A" is all about.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer.