Just remember one thing with vision systems. It doesn't matter who's vision system you are using, so long as you do your homework and get the correct lighting. Lighting is the signal most important element when setting up an vision system. Anyone's vision system will work with the correct...
Hmmmm.....Have you ever MAPPED-a-NETWORK drive to your USB stick? Try it. See if it works for you.
Chris Elston
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I dunno if I am crazy or what, but I use my PLC to run my Halloween displays.
I have some pictures here:
http://www.plchalloween.com/index.php?ind=gallery
And some videos here:
http://www.plchalloween.com/index.php?ind=downloads
Every year, we have Halloween on Two nights. I had over 500+...
I bet that would depend where in the world you are located. In the USA, I bet it would be RS Logix 500 or RS Logix 5000.
Chris Elston
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OPC server will share some lag time. Looking at you data, it doesn't seem that it would be that much.
One thing I forgot...SST makes a card that drops into a GE 90-70 rack. You didn't say which GE model you have.
If you have a GE 90-70, then SST has what you need...
And I can offer a project source code that I started with VB 6.0 and DDE... as well as others:
http://forum.mrplc.com/index.php?act=Downloads&CODE=01&cat=40
Chris Elston
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DH+ is ONLY an Allen Bradley communication protocol. GE doesn't support DH+. It depends on how much data you are wanting to share but a common OPC server might be one way or choose a device network like DeviceNet or Profibus that can be used in each PLC to talk to each other.
Chris Elston...
For free or you want to pay for one?
Chris Elston
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The new IX-Sel controller from Intelligent Actuatutor ROCKS! It's a nice Scara robot for under $14,000 it's hard to beat it.
Chris Elston
Automation & Controls Engineer
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Here you go:
download this and install it.
http://www.mrplc.com/dl/index.php?action=view&view=entry&entryid=83
It has your Photoeye symbols.
Chris (it's my personal collection)
Chris Elston
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As your next step, I would download this FREE book here:
http://www.mrplc.com/dl/index.php?action=view&view=entry&entryid=101
Read sections you want to understand more. I am sure it will help you along.
Chris Elston
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Use steel DOWEL PINS and Proxes to read the dowel pins. Arrange the DOWEL PINS to represent a binary number. Track your pallets by binary numbers.
Balluf makes a KILLER six position dowel pin reader pack for cheap....
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I dunno, if you could fork over the cash, I'd option to go for the Machine Edition software. I heard versa pro is on it's way out, and Simplicy Machine Edition will take it's place? Dunno if that is true, but I just used Machine Edition to program a GE CPU, and man was it KEWL! I did my HMI and...
plcsavvy is right. people in the electronic field ask me all the time "what is a plc?" I ask them, since you are an electronic WIZ...remember when you had to design circuit in college using 7400 family IC chips? **DING** a light goes off in their heads. I tell them if they can design a...
I am sure we have, but I think it take me three days to type up all the configuration in each PLC. Have you drawup a "NETWORK" map of which commuincation protocal is connecting to which PLC? I'd start there first and define all the communication paths to each PLC.
As far as the rest...
