hdhjr (Customer) asked a question.
Timer Logic Question, Productivity Suite
My VAR is jammed up busy, so I thought I would see if someone could help me out. I have a series of motors on P1 and P2 PLCs with DI's. I would like to have a cumulative motor run time for each motor individually that doesn't reset "odometer" and a daily "trip odometer" that resets at 11:59pm nightly and emails me the motor hours for the day, every day, for each motor. It can be set up for separate emails for each motor. Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks in advance for helping out an old, "new guy".....lol
Hi @hdhjr (Customer)
You would use the conditions for the motor being on and a pulse bit (1 minute) to a counter. This would then keep track of how long the motor is on.
Use the comparison contacts and the real-time values for hours and minutes to send an email and then reset the counter.
Here are a couple of related posts:
https://accautomation.ca/productivity-1000-series-plc-email-and-text-communication/
https://accautomation.ca/productivity-1000-series-plc-counter-instructions/
Here is the entire basic series on productivity.
https://accautomation.ca/series/productivity-1000-plc/
Regards,
Garry
Thanks Garry. I'll look into this today.
Hal
Just make sure when making the counter for your minutes to set its current count tag as retentive so that its data is stored by battery power when PLC is shut down, that way it doesn't ever get "reset" to 0 unless you specifically reset the data through your program.
Pouches,
Thanks for the info....
Hal