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AB SLC500 digital input simulator

The digital input simulator in action on an AB SLC500. (Allen Bradley, ...

Image - Tim Young - 2006-01-10 13:38 - 0 comments

Cheap PLCs

... The cool thing about this PLC is for the price you get digital inputs/outputs, built in PID control, two communication ports ... (more on this later).  For cards I'd like some digital inputs to play with and there are a lot of choices but a 1746-IB16 will ...

Story - Tim Young - 2019-04-02 07:42 - 9 comments

Numbers, Codes and a Little Logic

... heart of any computer system are the numbering systems and digital codes used for instructions and memory storage.  Besides the ones ...

Book page - Tim Young - 2006-03-31 16:17 - 11 comments

Rockwell Automation's Retroincabulator!

... is designing a new and improved version called the Digital-Retro-Trubo-Encabulator . He's taking pre-orders! I laugh every ...

Blog entry - Tim Young - 2008-02-16 18:01 - 8 comments

User Defined Data Types (UDTs) and OOP

by John Schop For years now, Object Oriented Programming paradigm (or OOP) has been a commonly used programming practice, and has of course found its way into industrial automation as well. In the mean time, most PLC manufacturers ...

Story - Tim Young - 2008-12-10 17:02 - 6 comments

RSLogix 5000 Tips and Tricks

Everybody enjoys nifty little tips and tricks to get their work done faster. This listing is for Allen Bradley's RSLogix 5000 software. Feel free to add your own tips and tricks using the 'add comment' link. General Keyboard ...

Book page - Tim Young - 2007-04-17 13:26 - 2 comments

An Allen Bradley SLC-500 Trainer

... simulators are mounted on the din rail below.  The digital input simulator (DI-8-UM) controls the inputs to the input ...

Story - Tim Young - 2011-05-03 11:14 - 0 comments

Schneider Electric Modicon History

... the Modicon company, deriving its name from Modular Digital Control. 1969 Modicon introduced the "084" PLC, ...

Story - Tim Young - 2006-01-25 13:57 - 0 comments

A Siemens S7-300 Trainer

... following for simulation: 16 rocker switches for digital inputs 16 LED indicators for digital outputs 2 analog meters for analog outputs 4 potentiometers for ...

Story - Tim Young - 2013-10-27 18:07 - 0 comments

S7 Library Functions

... (only exist on the S7-300C CPUs) SFB 46 DIGITAL TEC_FUNC Positioning with Digital Output (only exist on the S7-300C CPUs) SFB 47 COUNT ...

Book page - Tim Young - 2010-10-18 15:19 - 5 comments