I am the "electronics guy" in the maintenance department at a sardine cannery.
I have been to a 3 day course on "PLCs for the Non-programmer" and have a fairly thorough understanding of how PLCs work and the basics of ladder logic. I have RSLogix to monitor, tweak and troubleshoot our AB PLCs and have had good luck with that end of dealing with PLCs. I have a fair amount of general computer background, including some amateur programming in BASIC and dBase.
I would like to write a fairly simple (I hope...) program to control the tube/stack blowers on our boilers. Essentially, it will check to make sure the boiler is running and then trigger an air solenoid for two seconds. It will need to sequence through four solenoids, one every 15 minutes.
My question is this: Is it reasonable to expect that I could figure out how to do this from a book, e-book or on-line course? If so, which book(s) would you recommend?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments.
I have been to a 3 day course on "PLCs for the Non-programmer" and have a fairly thorough understanding of how PLCs work and the basics of ladder logic. I have RSLogix to monitor, tweak and troubleshoot our AB PLCs and have had good luck with that end of dealing with PLCs. I have a fair amount of general computer background, including some amateur programming in BASIC and dBase.
I would like to write a fairly simple (I hope...) program to control the tube/stack blowers on our boilers. Essentially, it will check to make sure the boiler is running and then trigger an air solenoid for two seconds. It will need to sequence through four solenoids, one every 15 minutes.
My question is this: Is it reasonable to expect that I could figure out how to do this from a book, e-book or on-line course? If so, which book(s) would you recommend?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments.