Sethiroth

I checked these out. The 24 input/output controller is only $200? What is the going price for something like this? Or do you normally peice together multiple boards to achieve the desired amount of I/O's?

I will be able to use the software available from work. Atleast at first. But I may eventually have to buy my own licenses. Which families have the lowest priced software? Do you use the same software for Embedded controllers as you do with PLC's? These look to be alittle cheaper, but im not sure how the work per say. Does anyone know of any good reasorces for learning about these?

I am not framiler with embedded controller's. I will look into those. Are they easy to program? The other reason I was looking at PLC was ease of programming. I am not concered with size. The housing of the project will be quite large. Also, those Noritake displays look nice! I will look into those. Thanks for showing them to me!

Well, the touch screen idea is a great idea, but the contacts need to be physical contact switch's, so it won't work in my situation. Im looking to do about 24 input and maybe 12 output. I would want four displays. The displays needs to be seperate from the PLC board. One of the contact buttons will switch focus from one display to the next. So. Display1 focus = yes Display2 focus = No Display3 focus = No Display4 focus = No When contact button "SwitchFocus" is made, Display1 focus = No Display2 focus = yes Display3 focus = No Display4 focus = No When contact button "SwitchFocus" is made again, Display1 focus = No Display2 focus = No Display3 focus = Yes Display4 focus = No Ect... This is for a game I am working on. I don't really have any controls in mind other then the contact buttons. The displays are for "scores". Im wondering how much a PLC board this size would cost, or if there might be a cheaper alternative. Thanks!

Hello, I am a PC tech/ Database programmer. I have almost no experience with PLC's. I have a question. I am working on a project where I would like to have say 24 different contact buttons. I want each button to have a "value". Everytime a button makes a connection, I want it to add its "value" to a "total" field. The "total" field will start out at Zero. So if contact button #8 makes a connection, it adds its value (we'll say its value is 200) to the "total" field (0). So it should do this. Total = Total + Value. And then I want another button to reset the "Total" value. And I want a display of some sort to display the value for "Total" at all times. How hard would this be to do, and what would I need? Would a PLC board be the way to go? Or would some other way work better/Cheaper? And what is available for a display? The "Value" field shouldn't ever go higher then six characters.