Video's are very helpful. I want to use the with my class. I get stuck on the parallel connection between c111 and c115. I am trying to use the arrows but no luck.
Interesting, I downloaded the software and it does not show me these screens. This is version 4.51, I would assume that the videos are obsolete as soon as a new version of the software comes out which is probably every few months...
Hi Phillip, Michael here from Australia. I like your style. I am looking to have two projects done to control 3phase motors via VFDs. One project will have a HMI. Do you do freelance work?
Lots of compliments. Are any from real people? After wasting over $2,000. myself, I do have to wonder, has anyone else been deceived enough to believe these lies? Has anyone ever said "it actually works as specified?
Here's a follow topic instead of using a for loop. Do a polynomial curve fit to the thermistor data in excel (add a trend line and show expression) then use the click's math expression to linearize the ADC value. What you have here is an interesting approach that's applicable to various situations, thanks.
It's not the norm for sure. But it is a cheap way to measure and control a temperature with minimal electronics and $. It could work for an OEM that would replicate it over and over. 1 PLC and 1 sensor.
Phillip, I enjoy your content and I am using a C2-01CPU with a combo C2-08D1-6V. I am using 4 temp sensors and I'm attempting to use 4 sub routines and one set of reference voltages assigned to DF40-240 allowing a 200 degree range from -10 to 190 degrees. Any pointers our guidance you can provide would be great.
You got me interested. But I need more information. What sensors are you using? What are you trying to control, fan speeds, heating/cooling valves, etc.? Are you averaging the sensor readings or using each one for a different controlled area? That's a powerful PLC setup for little $.
At approximately 13:45, that's not true, because if you pull up CTD1 in DataView1 you will see that it oscillates between 0 and 1. That is because once CT1 hits 2, it resets it in the next row (which is not the next scan, but the next row in the current scan). The way I resolved it was I added a NC contact for Oak Light onto Elm Turn Timer rung, then I added NC contact for Elm Turn Request to green and yellow rungs for Elm. I also removed NC contact for Elm Turn Request from < 20 s green rung.
Awesome , I have learned more from these vids on PLC than I did in a whole semester of PLC in my Electrical Systems Assoc.'s degree program at school ! Could you please do a similar vid incorporating a Safety Controller with the PLC and a set of light curtains🤔
does anyone please do a video how to do the writing of this lession because jumping from the lession 3 to here can not come from an beginner and following lession 4 without the program is absolutely pointless
thank you for these videos. i'm an automated machine builder and have gotten bored with just assembly. plc seems like a next good step and so far it's nice to see that it's not all craziness. thank you :)
Man, starting grom absolutely beginner and jumping to a full scale programing using from A to Z fror the lerner eaven tuching the program, let's be honest, is a mess. Maybe is ok for progrmers that want to lern traffic lights but to lern click is an impossible mess.
But that's the way it is. CLICK is the most simple to learn. Good electrical background helps. You have to jump in and push yourself to get past the first wall in your learning curve.
@@WadeCountryLiving thank you. But the best way to learn new language is by exercises. Starting from simple thing and with hands on adding more and more till gain confidence and adding till in the most complex exercises. Please add some exercise where to start working by myself. Is hard to find anything on RU-vid about click relay. Thank you
Hey Phillip. I've been enjoying you click plus vids. Just built a click plus test bench myself and having fun with some proof of concept stuff. Fun stuff!
I’ve always wanted to learn how to program a PLC and I recently decided to just do and and bought a Click Plus, and your video series has been extremely helpful in getting started, thank you so much for putting in the effort to make these videos!
I want to know where are this plc model applied at. Can i get the answer? I need official documents or your experiences just would be okay . Thanks from Korea
My experience is with DoMore PLC family for numerous projects in the past. For a new project I decided the DoMore was overkill so went with the smaller and less expensive Click Plus, also liking the idea of wifi connections. However the programming terminology, function calls and structure are like night and day between the two. Your video series is a great big help, very informative. Automation Direct video tutorials are an absolute joke. Thank you for this. All the best.
Can anybody help me? I have a plc click in version 2.20 and i try to update to the actual version but appears an error "GUI-022" I'm trying to update using the port 3 (rs 485)
@@mikeb4650 Just trying to learn the programming, Sir. It looks like the click software is what I’m after. I don’t understand your quality system response.
@@garypoplin4599 Garry, as far as the programming goes it is an excellent learning tool. I worked with Allen Bradley for half a century and the click software is first rate. Incredibly easy to understand and translate. My issue is with the add on THM modules, the error allowance, and the communications, and most of all a module that is off by up to 15 deg F. I had to continually adjust my EA9 touch screen room set point to compensate for the drifting CLICK. Dispite TECHNICAL SUPPORTS insistence that the control's fine. I must have sent 20 pics and all they kept saying was do one crazy test after another. After some very choice superlatives I pulled out an old @% year old Watlow controler and bypassed that garbage click
Hi Phil these videos have been really informative thank you. I'm yet to purchase a PLC but looking for something that fits my application. I need to run a program on a PLC to control temperatures on fermentation tanks, the input being a temp sensor and the output to a motorised ball valve which allows flow of chilled glycol to drop the temp on the tank itself. While I understand this device can easily turn the valve on and off depending on the set temperature, do you know if it's able to run a program that can extend over a week where as an example: days 1-3 set at 18 degrees C, then day 3-4 set at 20 degrees then 4 onwards 22 degrees? Ive been told click are really simple and might not be able to run programs like that. What's your experience regarding this?
You can set up timers by hours, days, months, whatever. You will need analog inputs or temperature module, etc. for the variable inputs and out puts, but start/stop are always discrete
Having used the Click, here is my assessment: Pro's: It's cheap. You really can't touch it price-wise. That includes Pi's and their derivatives. The Pi might be cheaper, but the effort needed to harden the I/O on your Pi to survive the real world will blow your budget. Software is free. Support is also free. Great way to get familiar with PLCs. Con's You have to stop the processor to load your program. In most places that's a non-starter. The I/O while being "industrially hardened" (take that with a grain of salt), is nowhere near as durable as the I/O on a Turck. Or for that matter what GE used on their Genius I/O 30+ years ago. Keep in mind that it's on a par with Rockwell (AB) I/O, so it's not horrible by any stretch. I used one for sending production counts and faults to a PC that was being used for data logging. For this purpose it worked great. The system that it was connected to was an old Gencor burner without any PLC controls of its own so there was a bit of integration involved. :) Modbus ASCII was used to communicate between the PC and the PLC. Would I use one for playing around? Yes. Would I use one on a project of mine, probably not.
No problem with your assessment. It is a very cheap but powerful PLC for the price. Yes, it is bottom of the line but covers a lot of needed area. Automation Direct has more powerful lines that do pretty much all needed (as long as you only use ladder logic)
@@WadeCountryLiving I think that it's major contribution is forcing the big companies to "protect their flanks" price-wise. It's forced them to come up with alternatives that while not being inexpensive by any measure, do give a few alternatives to the megabuck PLCs. So for that I am thankful. My current project is one where we are replacing the Rockwell PLC with a Turck because of the environment that it will be used in. That being Antarctica. It turns out that you can't leave your electronics behind during the off season (even unpowered) since the cold will destroy them. So at the end of the season you have to box up all of the electronics and put them in a relatively warm place (no colder than -40C). The old design had everything mounted in a huge Pelican box and the whole enchilada would be packed up and sent out. Our design will use a industrially rated server rack that uses 3U tray slides (rated for 500 pounds) and each "tray" will lay in the slide and be connected by Harding connectors. At the end of the season you simply pop off the connectors and put your "cookie sheets" (the trays are aluminum plates with the devices mounted to them, and kinda look like cookie sheets) into a bag and off you go. And of course it offers a simple backup/redundancy system where you could build up extra cookie sheets and drop them in if there is a problem. We currently have a reefer unit set up in the yard with a shaker that we are testing out. It's -15F (-26C) inside. And we have folks from all over the world coming out tomorrow to freeze their butts off. :)
Great analysis. I would add support is sub par and you do not have the option in the software to test the project, without purchasing the PLC. Also expecting modules for the click to meet their specs is a disaster waiting to happen. I will never use one again, except as an example of why you do not install junk.
@@mikeb4650 Thanks! :) I wanted a PLC that spoke "ASCII Modbus", which is what the AD Click documentation said that it did. What really happened was that AD left out the comma in the documentation, and it should have been "ASCII, RTU Modbus" or at least "ASCII, Modbus". Imagine my surprise. Ever write a ASCII Modbus routine for a PLC? I have. :) The AD engineer was less than helpful, not owning up to the error, or providing any useful support. I've had good support from AD (back when they were Koyo), but this guy, at least on that day, was a jerk. And it's a toy PLC. For what I was doing with it (data collection), it was fine. It wasn't going to take down civilization when it died.
