JaxGTO
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We have a saying here "Slick's are for kids".
I've seen multiple PLC-5 submerged in rainwater and survive. The obsolete servo amplifiers in those panels didn't fare nearly as well.
As others have stated, the SLC platform is obsolete and no longer supported by AB...
Why would you say that, they still sell them and they support them
Someday the SLC's are going to be gone but they are not now
Click here and type 1746 or 1747 https://www.rockwellautomation.com/...lity-migration/lifecycle-status/overview.page
Some are still there but some of their SLC's are already gone and no longer available for sale.
That is NOT true, just because a 5/01 and 5/02 are no longer made it does not mean the whole line is not made... a SLC is more than two processors
Its obvious that these are going away (very soon is my guess) as AB is systematically obsoleting the SLC line. The writing is literally on the wall.
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STOP guessing... the SLC 5/00 (brick) has been gone for 15 years, the 5/01 and 5/02 are not being made and the 5/03 is going away
All the older protocols are going away but Ethernet is here for a long time and will be supported and sold
really you need to just stop
I know we disagree on Rockwell, but this is just not the case.All the older protocols are going away but Ethernet is here for a long time and will be supported and sold
I know we disagree....
cardosocea said:Assuming Rockwell is not going to screw people over with a "new" protocol that is a lot better, but will force people to upgrade is very naive.
Traditionally we are very hard on students who post their homework questions while making little or no effort to answer them or who conceal that they are HNC class questions.
But I'll play along.
SLC-500 is a "mature" product. The first controllers came out in the late 1980's and the most popular modern model, the SLC-5/05, was introduced in 1993.
That means it's durable, and in wide use. Walk into a factory in North America and there are probably SLC's and call up a systems integrator and somebody will have the toolset and know how to use them.
But that's North America. In other parts of the world, Siemens or Mitsubishi or Omron are the leading brands that have the same degree of wide adoption and familiarity.
The popular brands are not just tough and well tested, their wide adoption, long life, and broad availability mean that they can typically provide longer service without breakdown, and that parts will be available for a long time and on short notice.
If I had an SLC-500 controller module fail today, I could have a replacement in two or three hours because there's a stocking distributor in my city. Even the fastest Internet-only distributors would take a day. In some situations, a day doesn't matter. In others, the difference in parts cost could be eaten up in a few minutes of downtime.
Hey, man thanks for the tips. I don't see why you're hard on students though? Like yeah if they're making no effort then that's fair enough, but how do you know how much effort someone is putting in? PLCs are complicated, I don't think there is anything wrong with students asking experts some questions for a little bit of help on there Homework, isn't that how people learn?