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Hey guys, when you build a panel. Do you guys supply the customer with the wiring schematics also, in other words. Lets say company X want to build a panel. When your finish build it and ready to send it the customer what goes along with panel. ( wiring diagram, blue prints, Plc program copy if it has plc).

How can I have PLC to send text message at a certain event. Is it seperate software I have to download. I want to do a little project like that. Give me starting point, how the process works. What do i need (hardware, software). I have a mx 1100, which I can comminuate to via wireless router. PLC and my home comp. are on the same network. Both have Own I.P. Addresses. So How do I get a text message out to my phone if certian conditions are met within the program is what I'm asking. Thankyou

Hey guys is there is special classification for Drafter. such as electrical is C-10. in California. What license is required to practice drafting service in California. I looked it up under CSLB site didn't find anything. thanks

So all panel building shop have to be UL listed. We build our own small panels inhouse. We size breakers and wires to size according. Do UL rules apply to every panel that is built?

extactly what I would do. But I never seen 480V single phase motor? I thought 480V 3 phase. What is your application for this that you need a 480V single phase motor

Any one here in the Electrical Testing business? We have thermal imaging camera in-house. But every year we call someone from outside to inspect our electrical system. They do good job, they go through most of our panels, motor starters, etc. Just wondering how big is this business? Can one survive on it, or what other testing services along with this are necasary to stay afloat. The guy came to do our plant said they stay busy all year long. So just curious to see if anyone here does it.

You can find all the stuff under "ipconfig" Do the follwing Go to START then RUN and put in CMD and press OK, black box will appear on the screen Then simply type in ipconfig and it will give you subnet and other info your looking for. hope it helps

Guys I assigned a I.P to mx1100. I can see it on the screen of the mx1100. This is my local IP from my routher for ex. 192.168.1.101. my question is my laptop is also connected to the same routher wirelessly, but I have ethernet cable hooked from plc to the routher. When I run the Rslogix500 It doesnt recondnize it. But I can connect to plc using serial cable. Can someone tell me what i'm missing here. I really want to make this work. Thanks guys.

I know this is a old post, but Paul brought up a good point about thermal imaging. I want to know if you guys do it yourself and hire an outside contractor to do it. We do it every year and we find new issues every year and some old ones that we think we fixed. We have someone come in and do it. It takes them alomost a week to go through everything. Mainly we like to the big stuff such as sub station, overhead lines and compressor cabinets.

Thanks guys it worked, you know what I was wrong, I never configure the RSLinx. As soon as I put the I.P address in their and couple other things bamm there it was. Also when I got online right away it would fault out the plc. Major fault due to AWA, BWA something like that, Then somewhere I changed it to BBB then it worked. Can you guys explan what that is and how can I find it now.

What kind of PLC did you use. roughly how many output were there. If you can post you code I'd like to look at it. Nice job by the way

Thanks for the help Paul and Carlton hey guys I found this on Rockwell site Here is link if anyone wants to check it out. I thought I post it here. It has good information on tags http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/i...pm004_-en-p.pdf

Hello I'm trying to learn 5k software. I managed to write a small program, I created tags in (program tags) and then I gave it allias name. So I got that far, Now I want to know what is USER DEFINED and CONTROLLER TAGS do. And how do I use them in a program, Can someone explain it. If you guys can point to some literature would be great. Better yet if someone has program written in that manner could send it to me. I learn better by looking at it. Thanks guys

Thanks B_Carlton for info. It cleared it up somewhat. I think I need to pratice writing a program. Is it possible I can look at someone code with all thses things in it. Hey tried on there website. I cant seem to anything. Is it possible someone can provide a me with link.

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Thanks buddy, I'll check it out. I watched couple of video on it, it looks good.

HI Luc Hey I was wondering if Eplan has a try out version? I have used autocad in past. I cant say much about it, I only used it for like a year.

Reason I was asking because at the plant I work, we dont really work of the schematics. I just go ahead and build them and sometime the schematics never get done for that panel. I know it's not a good practice, but no one really ask because we do it in-house. So I got pretty good build panels. how big is this panel building business. Can one survive on it, let's say if I go on my own. would it require providing other electrical services too stay busy? I do have contractor license.

What is Ditto? okey i figured it out. so precisly tell me, before you guys start building the panel, there is gotta be some brain storming, then you sketch it out on piece of paper such as panel layout, like where all the comoponet would go. So wiring schematics are done before or after the panel is done or it doesnt matter.

Paul. I was thinking to access my server from the iphone and then access the plc program remotely. but that's kind of pain.

Hey guys I have ML 1100 sitting at home. I was thinking about hooking it up to garge door opener and use my Iphone to open the garge over the internet. is it possible? if it is shine some light on it to how can I make that happen.

We usually fuse each device with proper rating of the motor. It makes it much easier to troubleshoot. Also if you have to replace the drive, you can just pull the fuses for just that drive instead of doing it live or shutting 20 others devices so you can work on one. So I usually try to fuse each device.

How do I create subroutine. Can someone explain it to me then how do I call them in the program. Also how's subroutine useful? have a wonderful day

Allen Bradley training who? I'm getting mine right here...... you guys are awesome.

ML1100 using rslogix 500 software. My question is let's say I write a logic for 3motor to come on at certin time. Also 2 hydurlic valve will close at same time. So I understand that I can make two different subroutine one for motors and one hyd. valves. My question is how do I create or Put my logic under one of the two subroutine.