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Subject: RE: Remote I/O
From: "Mark Rivers" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:05:40 -0600
Yes, the Direct Logic range. I've used the DL205 with the H2-COM100 Ethernet module.  I think our complete system with lots of digital I/O was under $1500.
 
I am using it for a safety system on a gas-loading apparatus.  The PLC implements the safety, but receives requests and sends status over Modbus to a Windows EPICS IOC.
 
I've also tested it as a simple I/O system, with essentially no PLC ladder logic program running at all.  That is what the example IOC in my "modbus" EPICS module does.
 
Mark
 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wed 12/16/2009 2:54 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Remote I/O



Mark,

I presume the Koyo PLC's are from their DirectLogic range. Which ones in
particular?

Cheers,

Nick Rees
Principal Software Engineer           Phone: +44 (0)1235-778430
Diamond Light Source                  Fax:   +44 (0)1235-446713

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rivers [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 16 December 2009 16:35
> To: Rees, Nick (DLSLtd,RAL,DIA); [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Remote I/O
>
> Nick,
> 
> On a relatively small scale I've been pleased with the
> Modbus/TCP interface to Koyo PLCs from Automation Direct.
> These PLCs allow direct communication with the I/O points
> through Modbus.  Some other manufacturers only allow Modbus
> access to memory registers, which the PLC program must
> read/write with the I/O point value.  There is a scanner
> running, but the Koyo PLCs are very inexpensive so cost is
> really not much of an issue.
> 
> Mark
> 
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [email protected] on behalf of
> [email protected]
> Sent: Wed 12/16/2009 6:44 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Remote I/O
>
>
>
>
> At Diamond we are considering what to use for the next generation of
> discrete I/O. Currently we have a lot of VME based hardware,
> but we are
> considering a good architecture for a Linux world.
>
> The model that we are considering is a soft IOC on a Linux system
> communicating over Ethernet using an open, industry standard
> protocol to
> distributed DIN-Rail mounted I/O points. These I/O points take in
> Ethernet and are powered from a 24V bus that will run around the
> hardware area.
>
> This eliminates any dependence on a specialized bus
> architecture (apart
> from Ethernet) on the Linux system, so they can be commodity PC's, and
> hopefully allows us to use widely available, cheap, industrial modules
> for I/O. It will not completely replace all of the requirements
> currently serviced by VME, but would be able to satisfy most of them,
> with the remaining few being serviced by the occasional VME system (or
> FPGA, or some other bus, or something else entirely in the future...).
>
> This email is to poll the EPICS community as to the experience people
> have had, and recommendations for and against.
>
> The sort of thing we have identified are:
>
>  1. Modbus/TCP based modules, such as the Acromag Busworks series
> http://www.acromag.com/models.cfm?Product_Function_ID=28&Categ
ory_ID=22&
> Group_ID=2
>  2. EtherCAT base modules, such as those from Beckhoff:
> http://www.beckhoff.com/
>  3. Standard PLC systems where (as distinct from the other two), you
> take Ethernet to a PLC controller which then has a series of
> modules it
> talks to in a variety of possible ways.
>
> So, is anyone willing to share their experiences with these or similar
> systems,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick Rees
> Principal Software Engineer           Phone: +44 (0)1235-778430
> Diamond Light Source                  Fax:   +44 (0)1235-446713
>
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