×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

new plc

new plc

new plc

(OP)
my father used to work at a company which made machines for the pharmacuticals (bad speller sorry) industry. he wrote software for the machines and he brought home a allen bradly SLC 500 plc. he has since left the company but forgot to take it back and i was wondering if aneyone has some projects of ideas of what to do with it.

RE: new plc

Use it to run the best X-Mass light show on the block.
is it a 01,02,03,04 or 05?

RE: new plc

Have it run your lawn sprinklers, or yard lights. Unfortunately you will need the programming software which is not cheap. You will also need a cable to connect from the programming computer to the PLC. Based on the type of PLC you have, hopefully you can use a serial port connection. That is the cheapest way to communicate. Otherwise you will need either a AB KT card (ISA or PCI slot desktop) or an AB PCMK card (credit card type for notebook) which each cost about $1500.  The programming language that AB (Rockwell Automation) is selling now is called Logix 500, about $500.00. You will also need a separate comnmunication program from AB which is called RSlinx. You may be able to find someone with an old version of IPDS (DOS based progranmming language) or ICOM software called AB500. The SLC500 PLC is a great little unit but it takes quite a bit of other stuff to get it up and running.

RE: new plc

Yeah! I installed a SLC in my basement and every year I running an automation halloween show! I have SMC air valves I run off my air compressor, fog machines..etc...You can have massive fun with a PLC.

Chris
http://www.mrplc.com
Download sample PLC code.

Chris Elston
Automation & Controls Engineer
http://www.mrplc.com

RE: new plc

A good suggestion would be to have your father take back the "borrowed" equipment that he "forgot" to take back.  Theft, no matter how you package it, is wrong.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources