PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
(OP)
Hi
I would like to use the pc to control aworking machine or any equipment in another way I would like to use the pc to monitor the equipment working parameters so the men in duty can control the equipment in service remotely from acontrol station without any need for localy control.
a friend says use c# for programming the serial or parallel ports for controling is he right.
or
what is the prefered programming language to do this?
or
Is the pic controller & microprocessors are better than the pc?
Thanks.
I would like to use the pc to control aworking machine or any equipment in another way I would like to use the pc to monitor the equipment working parameters so the men in duty can control the equipment in service remotely from acontrol station without any need for localy control.
a friend says use c# for programming the serial or parallel ports for controling is he right.
or
what is the prefered programming language to do this?
or
Is the pic controller & microprocessors are better than the pc?
Thanks.





RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
Dan - Owner

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RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
Embedded systems work well too; most can now support a web-port, so if you can run an internet cable to them you can access them from the PC.
That's the top view. There are many, many details at the bottom that will lead you on one path or the other (unit cost volume, engineering effort, programming experience, money you want to spend on tools, etc.).
John D
RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
Since you are obviously not a programmer, you might investigate using something more like Labview, which comes with a plethora of graphical controls, interface drivers, and display and data processing modules. This will allow you to concentrate on getting the functionality you want, rather than burning hours debugging interface and display code. While the cost of Labview might appear prohibitive, just bear in mind how expensive it might be to spend a month or two debugging some otherwise trivial interface.
Note also, Labview comes with a library of drivers for specific instrumentation, so what you are interfacing to might already be fully supported in Labview.
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RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
I am sorry I didnot write the problem in detail I have an electric power plant, diesel engines as aprime movers with 1MW for each the plant is controlled with acombined digital analog control system, but alot of faults generates with no indication for the cause the monitoring of the plant parameters some times is not correct IAW the comparison between the digital and analog gauges.
I would like to use the same wiring and the same transcducers and using the pc as atool to monitor the plant parameters from one place also my concern is to use the pc for storing the plant status as an elctronic log and the pc programm may help alot in detecting the generating faults (for the electric control system) so how can I start .Iam not aprogrammer and my company will not offer alot of many . the company would like to make some sort of retrofit for the controling system without spending alot of money so I have been charged to find is it possible to interface the system with the pc with a minimun cost.
RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
Keith Cress
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RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
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RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
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RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
But, if such is the case, a commercial HMI/SCADA software package with an historian component could be configured to grab the data and put it in a database for analysis.
Google will bring up dozens of HMI/SCADA packages, of which Labview is one.
Have you asked the manufacturer if they have a SCADA/HMI package for the generator?
RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
RE: PC control or microprocessors and pic are better
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com