geniusintraining

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  1. PID tuning - forced hot air

    Try here http://www.controlguru.com/ and here http://www.learncontrol.com/tutorial/ the funny thing is...I have been reading the past week or so on this site (listed above) and I think on my next PID setup, I will try and develop a reasoning for my madness and try the logical approach, not the WAG theory, you guy's are starting to rub off on me....
  2. Mitsubishi Instruction Help

    Follow this link, I know its for the Q series but, I think the examples you are looking for are general instructions http://www.meau.com/Files/SH_NA_080039-K.PDF "BSFLP L1170 K2" this is a Bit Shift Left you will find this on page 7-49 and 50, when your statement is true it shifts the data left, the L1170 is the data shifting and K2 is the amount of data to be shifted the plf and pls are on page 5-32 these are leading edge and trailing edge outputs hope this helps
  3. Plc's Fuzzic Logic

    Looks good and I would invite any tool that could help me do my job, but.... I dont think they will ever be able to beat a human mind (not that they are trying), there are many variables that must come into play and can not be compensated by PV vs SP or 'good' motion. Setting up a PID loop (to me) is more by feel then reaction to the process, I use the WAG to get me in the ball park, then look at the reaction vs input to the loop.. if that makes any sense
  4. A successful programmer need what?

    I'll sleep when i'm dead...that's when I'll will get some 'me-time'
  5. What is your industry

    I voted other.... I work in the printed circuit board industry, I would of voted 'electronics' (given that option), but I came from the paper industry, who knows where I will end up ....still looking
  6. A successful programmer need what?

    There are several things that make a programmer 'great', I think there are many programmers and many good ones, but what makes one stand above the rest is the ability to work through issues and the unknowns. I have worked with many in my short time, I try to model my self after the ones that can take a application that they have never seen before, learn it (the majority of the time self taught), perfect it and then have the ability to show someone else what and why they did. You need to have the ability to think outside of the box, it will not always work the way it should but it's your job to make it works the best that it can. Numbers…its in the math, you must feel comfortable with manipulating numbers, no mater what the issues are they majority of the time it can be brought down to the bit level and then manipulated to achieve what is needed. I had a discussion in another forum about simplifying 'code'…I think I was wrong, some code can not help but be complicated period, you must try and document your code to help simplify it. And that brings me to my last point, anyone that is great, will document the shoot out of there code, to try and explain what they are thinking, you can make a program 100 different ways, so you must explain why you did it your way. Hope this helps
  7. RTD fluctuations

    sounds like it may be hardware... have you tried posting your question here http://forum1.automationdirect.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi they have techs that watch there board (not that they dont here) but you may get a fast reply, sorry I could not help
  8. RTD fluctuations

    mcpaytas, Is this a new application or a old one that just started to do this?, do they all come back to the same input card?
  9. MrPLC Shirts

    ?... http://www.lidscyo.com/design_lab/lab.html?pid=20012446
  10. Christmas 2006 Holiday Season

    I have a couple, real ones...
  11. Christmas 2006 Holiday Season

    ta da....here's mine Don't pay any attention to writing on the bottom.....
  12. ROCKWELL RANT!

    Hmmm... I have no complaints about Rockwell, its this simple….If you don't want to pay, don't use their product. Thanks, Ken for all the help that you have given me and many others.
  13. Light Tower Order?

    I'm Irish but I could not decide... ....sideways you can't go wrong
  14. very nice....can you tell me part numbers? I would like to try the same
  15. So would that be the same with the micro?
  16. crsgab, I also do a lot of measurements, but I use the go/no-go from the controller to my PLC as a digital input, I have just found it more reliable that way, are you using a linear probe that is a ASCII input or does it go to a measuring device? then out from the controller to your plc? The majority of my controlers are Mitutoyo's (they are great)
  17. Hackers and PLCs

    Saw this awhile back on PLCS.net its kind of hacking or just an opps... http://www.isa.org/Content/ContentGroups/I...Cyber_Flaws.htm
  18. Major Tangent - Read at your own Risk

    If you hold onto a contract too long, you can have your goods delivered....can you imagine a truck load of pork bellies on your front lawn...they are futures but at sometime you will be called on them, when you buy a contract that contract will have a date Thats why the most powerful man in the world is not the president of the US or the most richest man in the world...but its the man that controls the money of the most powerful nation...Ben Bernanke can have a bad hair day (not much there) and the market will drop like a rock, thats why Greenspan was so good he could speak at a news conference for a hour...at the end of the conference no one could understand what the hell he was talking about, so the only indicators that people would play off of him was his briefcase...they would judge him by how many pieces of paper were sticking out...if there were a lot then interest was going up, if none then he was going to drop it, so the market would have a field day
  19. Should we have an AC Drives Secrtion ?

    So what’s the verdict…is there going to be a drive/motion?…I’m kind of slowww sometimes and just don’t want to miss it…well, ok not slow…just way to much caffeine, so things blur together a bit...
  20. Should we have an AC Drives Secrtion ?

    I hate welding…to me that is a 'controlled direct short' but I am certified (was, expired now) in mig, tig and arc in structural, pipe and pressurized vessel But I'm changing my vote from maybe to yes …I would like to see a drive/motion control, we may get a few experts to stop by and make it a good learning experience, I know a Yaskawa guy that may help, Peter will also help (I would think) I would talk to SEW to see if they could have someone stop by every once in a while Drives and motion are fun, they expand your way of thinking, I love the way I feel after making a good program for a PLC, but when I make a good PLC program and it incorporates a drive with some motion (smooth motion) well…I feel like a kid again
  21. Should we have an AC Drives Secrtion ?

    I agree, the drive that I'm working on now has 8in and 8out standard that can be expanded to 16(plus I'm sure even more with a rio.. How did you like the class? I wish that more companies would offer more training on programming motion, I have many single and multi axis controllers, but the resources are limited, even some of the newer ones don't offer much, but try and find info on the older ones forget it...
  22. Should we have an AC Drives Secrtion ?

    I voted maybe...I figured that no one else would...just wanted to be different... Ok, seriously, TW said, I would agree but the vast majority of us including yourself are doing it all, there are not very many motion, drive or general awh hell I don't have a clue site's out there, so it would be nice to have another tool in our pockets So again maybe, 'I vote put it on the site', but you can put it where you want, just put it where I can get to it...by the way anyone know how to down load to a Danfoss VLT5000, I wrote a simple single axis program that I need to down load, but I cant figure out how... I read the manual(s) but just can't get it
  23. Peter and Bud - Upset Circuit

    nice....Happy hydraulics