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Help me...somebody.
I can't be the first person to do this.
I'm currently beyond asking WHY Siemens does what it does. One thing's for certain, Allen Bradley's got nothing to worry about with market share, if programmers have anything to say about it.....
I'm looking for an AB LAD (whoops, ladder logic) programmer who has conquered the abbreviation happy translations of what are probably well written German technical manuals.
Over the last week, I've read over 1,000 pages of documentation, been on the support hotline for hours, and still have yet to write a rung of logic. I can't seem to get a handle on where the actual data resides, or what it looks like. Each manual (software and hardware) refers to the other, like DATA is some ugly step-daughter.
I feel like Clara Peller (American reference to Wendy's hamburger commercial): "Where's the DATA TABLE?"
If anyone has made sense of any of this, please write back. (PLEASE: No flamers or sales types...I'm done with you guys)
And, if its the best example of why IEC 1131 is "so great", it does not surprise me that no US makers of control are really pushing us to use it. Keep it overseas, TYVM.
IMHO, of course.
Jeffrey D. Brandt
[email protected]
http://users.supernet.com/jdbrandt/
"Step 7...it ain't no ICOM."
I can't be the first person to do this.
I'm currently beyond asking WHY Siemens does what it does. One thing's for certain, Allen Bradley's got nothing to worry about with market share, if programmers have anything to say about it.....
I'm looking for an AB LAD (whoops, ladder logic) programmer who has conquered the abbreviation happy translations of what are probably well written German technical manuals.
Over the last week, I've read over 1,000 pages of documentation, been on the support hotline for hours, and still have yet to write a rung of logic. I can't seem to get a handle on where the actual data resides, or what it looks like. Each manual (software and hardware) refers to the other, like DATA is some ugly step-daughter.
I feel like Clara Peller (American reference to Wendy's hamburger commercial): "Where's the DATA TABLE?"
If anyone has made sense of any of this, please write back. (PLEASE: No flamers or sales types...I'm done with you guys)
And, if its the best example of why IEC 1131 is "so great", it does not surprise me that no US makers of control are really pushing us to use it. Keep it overseas, TYVM.
IMHO, of course.
Jeffrey D. Brandt
[email protected]
http://users.supernet.com/jdbrandt/
"Step 7...it ain't no ICOM."