sandman

Hi guys we are using a siemaens s7 unit in a sand plant and the PC that we are using is gettting long in the tooth and needs replacing the PC has a card with these details "CP5613" and C79039-a8000-z077-02-sa we desperatly meed to find a driver for this card so we can upgrade the PC any help would be appreciated Sandman

Hi Dekor. Thanks for all your help it has been much appreciated

Hi Dekor. I thank you for taking the time to reply I am sorry for the delay in posting back but I've been on leave from work and my computer access. the S5 unit is part of a Sand mouldability unit attached to a Sand Mill and the output from that is what gets displayed on the pc screen when we need to make changes to the sand batch we can access the plc through the pc screens using F keys which can then change values of the mix such as set points the program runs on the win 98 platform so is getting old now Its sad that the circuit is not your own at the moment the one I have built from your plans is working and giving me a signal so all is well at the moment I have a program that can draw up a pcb board from schematics so I will attemp to make one that way however there is a componant that is on that diagram that I do not understand what it is it is marked as "A1 L05" and is in yellow do you know what this is the rest of the componants I can work out regards Sandman

Hi Dekor thanks for your reply when I posted I did not know if you were still around Its good to get a reply The S5 unit is on a Sand Mouldability Controller attached to a Disa Sand Mill the output is a disply on a pc of what the machine is doing and Data. It runs on a dos screen from a win 98 platform when the machine was first installed the pc was about 800 meter away and was conected with a converter "stromchnittstelle PC/PG-AG Typ:IR-TTY 20mA" the computer was moved to colse by the SMC and when this converter failed I built one that was posted with the circuit board Diagram. We intend to move the PC away from the Sand mill to the lab some 800 meters again. I noticed in the pdf shematic this was a different unit but I do not have enough knowledge to be able to change the shematic into a circuit board that I can constuct the circuit board layout would be for this shematic (rs232_tty.pdf ( 65.78K )) Regards Sandman

Hi Dekor. I made up the converter you posted the prited circuit board layout and for short distances it works fine I would also like to make up a powered unit as shown in the pdf drawing you also posted as I need to move the PC some distance away from the S5plc is it possible to get a printed circuit board laypout for the shematic in the PDF file Kind regards Sandman