I have some PLC drawings titled 'April 2000'.
The Rack contains a 'IDA 2220' CPU, 2320 Dig In Cards,'IXA 2060' Analog In etc.

Does anybody know what type of PLC this is? I think that it may be a Telemecanique or another in the Schneider group.
And if so, where I may find more info about it?

Thanks

 

Yes, the April line comes from Europe. I also believe that it is under the Schneider umbrella. You can contact your local Modicon rep and press them for information.

Good luck,
Eric

 

Hi,

There are plenty of these PLCs still running, I see them mainly in France. As far as I am aware the 2000 is obsolete although there are several companies offering repair services on the 'net.

I am, at this moment, building a control system which will interface with an APRIL 2000 system, they look amazing, rack mounted things with big lamps on the IO. I'm sure others on the list will know more, if not, i can dig deeper.

marc sinclair

 

April is one of the several PLC brands in France which are merged and now are operating under the name Schneider. As far as i know the April PLCs are out of production.

 

As far as I remember (I programmed April only once and that was in 1990...) April controllers have nothing to share with Telemecanique (or Schneider), they were developed by Renault automotive group and mostly used in Renault factories. Programming language was plain boolean math, AND contacts were represented by multiply operator, OR contacts by sum operator.
Let's say a simple rung like the following

|----||--+--|/|-------------()
| |
|----||--+

in April was programmed as follows:
PumpMotor = (StartButton + PumpMotor) * /StopButton


Try to figure it out how was commissioning and troubleshooting...
Good luck ;-)

regards
Luca Gallina

 

Thanks for the contributions!

Does anybody know the software package that's used to communicate with the April 2000? And if it is through a conventional 9-pin RS-232 port?

Also, any site offering support, data sheets etc?
(They have 'disappeared' from Shneider websites - presumably because they are now obsolete..

 

I need to know how is the kind memory of aprilplc 2000.

what means:
%MW
%QX
%IX
%MX

Thanks for your help.

 

Most likely - it is IEC 61131-3 notation.

Meir

 

Hi ,

If any body having, april 2000 PLC programming software orphee 5.2 or later version. if yes please send to my mail vr_gaddam [at] yahoo.co.in

Thanks in advance
Raghav