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[Guest Jussi]

I'm a student at Karlstad University and I'm taking a course with the GXIEC. Is there a program witch I can use to make LD's at home ,maby simulate the prog and then run it at my school? As I'm a poor student I cant afford to bye anything too expenciv but I like the program and would like to be abel to work with it at home. Any sugestion?

[panic mode 246]

There are some projects such as open PLC. I guess they would have free ladder software and simulator - don't know for sure. There are some simulators on the web like www.plstalk.net and there are some projects to do. If you want to make money, just bite the bullet and buy the thing. There are starter packages from just about all vendors that come with PLC and software. If 200-300 euro is too much for the budget, consider voluntering for few weeks at your local automation shop. You will learn a lot...! No pain no gain...