Created Date: August 21,2007

Created by: Bob S BN

This is all you need to make this happen. X0 is a normally open contact. When closed it will pass power flow across the rung to the output coil assigned to Y0. All programms nedd an "end " instruction as the last rung.

I believe there are some example programs in the directsoft manual as well that may help you begin to understand ladder logic. Manual can be downloaded from AD at no charge.

| X0 Y0 |

|---| |-----------------( )---|

| |

| |

|-----------------------(end)-|

|

Created Date: August 21,2007

Created by: milldrone

shazzam,

I'm going to make some presumptions,

There is an example of a flip flop in DS5.after clicking on DSlaunch right click projects, click browse. Open the examples folder,open the ladder examples folder,click on the easy flip flop file. If I'm reading the rest of your post correctly this should help. If you need any more help or if I misunderstood your post, post back and I'm sure someone will help.

PS. have you seen the automation direct examples web page? http://support.automationdirect.com/examples.html

Vaughn

Created Date: August 22,2007

Created by: shazzam

I thank you for all your help, but I almost have it.

I have the program setup like this:

|--|X0|--------------(Y0)--|

|--------------------(end)-

(thank you Bob S BN)

So when the program is up and running X0 lights up along with Y0. I'll take it as a good thing.

But it doesn't seem like it is closing the circuit (coil)..

I checked the manual Volume 1 and the PLC that I ordered and received is DD1, which is a sinking unit. I triple checked the wiring on page 2-16 but I still not getting an output.

I was just thinking about it and I have X0 wired as sinking, if I have a DD1 wired as a sourcing, could it be that I have a DD2?

So what I did is connected it as if it was sourcing unit and now they all turn on, whether I press X0 or not.

Again, any help would be appreciated.

Created Date: August 21,2007

Created by: shazzam

I'm still rather new to PLC programming, and I have read all the examples from this website:

http://www.plcs.net/contents.shtml

But I am still a little confused about how to program this unit. I think the main problem is that I don't know about the registers for both the input and output.

Is there a simple way to write a program where, when a press a momentary on switch X0, Y0 will close?

Sorry for these stupid questions, but the instructions included didn't have any examples what so ever...

Any help would be appreciated.