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DirectLogic VS DoMore
Created Date: October 27,2015
Created By: Ryan_Poethke
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How easy is it to learn the DoMore software, provided I'm already familiar with DirectLogic? I may have a project coming up with quite a bit of networking and analog, and the DoMore appeals to me. Since the timeline is pretty fast, I don't have much time to figure out a new programming environment. Are they fairly similar? Thanks, rpoet
Created Date: October 27,2015
Created by: ControlsGuy
Most of the new stuff is optional to use. You should be pretty well able to program in DL-Classic mode with little to no learning curve, especially if you don't have to set up any devices.
The new stuff gives you a LOT more power, but I can't think of anything offhand that you MUST use that would take a significant amount of time to learn.
Created Date: October 27,2015
Created by: BobO
How easy is it to learn the DoMore software, provided I'm already familiar with DirectLogic? I may have a project coming up with quite a bit of networking and analog, and the DoMore appeals to me. Since the timeline is pretty fast, I don't have much time to figure out a new programming environment. Are they fairly similar?
Thanks,
rpoet
Careful...once you breath the air, the change is inevitable and going back is very hard. :D
Created Date: October 27,2015
Created by: Mike Nash
I have more trouble bouncing between DL and Do-more than either of them and Allen-Bradley. But that's because they are so similar I trip myself up and forget which I am in. They aren't actually that close, but the flavor is similar.
The Do-more should make networking and analog far easier. So far, the only real gotcha I have had with networking was ModbusTCP to a device the manufacturers should be ashamed of. Expensive, slow, limited and the first one was even intermittent. Not a good place to learn. With a decent device it is really fast, and super easy on the Do-more side. (No, I won't name the mfg. Real names rather than user handles require discretion.)
Download the software and run it in the simulator. That is really easy to do with the Do-more. You can't test everything (CTRIO e.g.) but you can check your logic and math very easily. Remember that your PC speeds will be faster than the Do-more processor, but the Do-more is so, so much faster than a D2-260, etc.
Created Date: October 28,2015
Created by: some anon guy
I have only dabbled with the DL series.
I use only the Do-More PLCs in my systems.
How easy was it to learn? Very. I had NO PLC experience before using the Do-More. I found it very intuitive and the help files are awesome!
I have only had to call support twice. Once getting a VFD working with PID, and another about Ethernet coms.
So, if a guy like me with NO PLC experience can pick it up and run. Someone with any PLC background should have no problems.
Created Date: October 28,2015
Created by: deep6ixed
Honestly, I had almost no learning curve going from the DL to the DoMore, Analog was the whole reason we switched several of our machines to this new processor and it saved us hours of programming.
Biggest issue I had was just learning the new options that I had. Would start to write logic to do something and then see that there was already a instruction to do just that.
Come to the Do-More side, we have cookies...
Created Date: October 28,2015
Created by: ControlsGuy
And milk! (Or bourbon, if you prefer)
Before you laugh, I used to know a German guy who'd eat cookies with his beer!
Created Date: October 28,2015
Created by: plcnut
The transition is as easy as you make it. If you want to code DL style, then you can for the most part. The Do-more way is so much better though. Once you come over, you will never go back!
Created by: Henke
No contest ... DL < DM
No contest. The DM wins by a landslide. I've jokingly been calling the DL series the "do less" although that's a bit unfair. But what with decimal numbering, huge memory, self-evident analog, selective modbus, backwards compatibility, better editor, more instructions, etc... I could go on.
Created Date: October 29,2015
Created by: boardmaker
One more vote for DoMore here!
Created Date: October 30,2015
Created by: winterrossi
I 've done several DL projects, and 1 Do More. I'm hooked. It's awesome. Several new instructions which are great, and as they say in the advertisement, analog "just works ".