Thanks, maybe keep me up to date and with the controller issues, might still be suitable for a simple mill. I won't ever get to tool changer territory, so maybe I don't need to think about PLC hardware. Still not got a mill yet anyway.The adverts are automatically removed after 1 month I think.
Turns out the controller has an issue on one of the analogue or encoder channels (Channel 3) , not had a chance to test further to see if the 4 and 5 are ok or not, 0,1 and 2 are fine so...
Regarding the PLC, the non PC based ones usually have a PLC so that you can configure I/O to what you want, for example you may wish and output to be active is it sees certain inputs but not others so you would use the PLC for that. The likes of Mach has Brains which can sort of be used the same way and I think Mach4 has a software PLC.
On my Chiron I use a hardware PLC for the tool changer, the toolchanger requires 40 or 50 I/O and thus using a hardware PLC was the way to do it for me. I also use a hardware PLC on the lathe with the SZGH controller but it was more because I wanted to flip the sinking/sourcing I/O rather than anything else although it also allowed me to do some wee tricks for spindle gears and a few other things.
The CSMIO/IP-S and IP-A have plenty of I/O for most things and can be expanded with up to 16 I/O modules if needed so usually not a problem.Thanks, maybe keep me up to date and with the controller issues, might still be suitable for a simple mill. I won't ever get to tool changer territory, so maybe I don't need to think about PLC hardware. Still not got a mill yet anyway.
Yes, the numbers are written in order from top row to bottom row.I m sorry but if I wasn't very confused before I certainly am now.
All of the numbers beginning with T are at the front and all the straight numbers are at the back?
Do you have the network cable connected? Picture doesn't show it but that was maybe taken prior to trying things out.