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I am a student in electrical engineering, and I am attempting to learn PLCs from scratch. I have completed the Siemens Level 1 training manual (on my own), and understand what is going on - to a degree. My boss wants me to hook up other devices to our S7-300s to control them, not just the provided conveyor model.
I have read over the SM332 manual, and now I am left wondering: what can possibly be driven by 10V and 20mA, which are the rated outputs of the SM332? What will I need to do to attach, say, a 1.2A, 24V motor to this unit (ie. will it be more difficult than making a voltage/current amplifier to stick onto the output before the motor)? What else will I need to configure on the PLC to get an external device to work? I mean, I guess I'll have to clear out the phyiscal connections currently in the SM332, but is there anything else soft- or hardware wise that must be done?
Thanks very much for any assistance,
Lee Rehorn
I have read over the SM332 manual, and now I am left wondering: what can possibly be driven by 10V and 20mA, which are the rated outputs of the SM332? What will I need to do to attach, say, a 1.2A, 24V motor to this unit (ie. will it be more difficult than making a voltage/current amplifier to stick onto the output before the motor)? What else will I need to configure on the PLC to get an external device to work? I mean, I guess I'll have to clear out the phyiscal connections currently in the SM332, but is there anything else soft- or hardware wise that must be done?
Thanks very much for any assistance,
Lee Rehorn