TJG3D (Customer) asked a question.
I am fairly knew to working with PLCs and electronics in general as my background is mechanical with the exception of some work on Cobots.
I was hoping that someone could help me, as I need to use a Click PLC to control a VFD for a motor. I know for controlling the motor I need Digital input 1 will just need a close binary output from the controller and then then it will receive the 0-10V speed input signal from the analog output from the controller, but do not know how to go about setting that up.
I need this program to be set up in a way that either a timer tells the motors to turn on until a sensor is met saying it has reached its home position, then to have a dwell time there before repeating.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Look at the manuals of both units. You will need to do some reading.
Set it up on a work bench first.
What have you accomplished so far?
In addition, depending on your AC drive. Our GS10, GS20 & WEG drives have PLC example programs for the Click that you can download from the drive product pages.
The simplest for me was to have the PLC output an analog signal to analog input of the VFD.
Input to the PLC, then via programing, gives an output which initiates the VFD run and the analog response.