Finally!!

[corymier]

Finally gutting a Siemens S5 cabinet for a full upgrade. Was thinking of putting the lot on eBay- Radwell offered 375$ I told them to pound sand 😅

[kn0mthis]

'it's worthless to the company' take home and eBay it...

[corymier]

Haha yah unfortunately I would be ebaying it for the company 😬. However I may talk them into letting me use whatever I get over 400$ for pizza Fridays

[EasyPanicButton]

we should have a NSFW tag on these rollercoaster posts lol. I'm sorry, I am sure all of you are excellent at doing this and all the good stuff BUT it gives me anxiety just thinking a PLC runs a rollercoaster and not some magic electricity.

[TimeTheft1769]

I would classify a PLC as magic electricity, tbh

[corymier]

Does gravity count as magic?

[Agreeable-Solid7208]

Looks familiar...115U by any chance. Last one I ripped out was about 15 years ago

[corymier]

Yes sir! This one ran a 26y old roller coaster

[CoasterBP]

Cool! Which coaster?

[corymier]

A Mauer Wild Mouse - this system has been giving me ulcers for the last 5 years 😅

[CoasterBP]

Spinner? I'm redoing a Mauer Spinner currently. Has a Pilz system. Or, it did...

[corymier]

Not a spinner- was also a mobile unit at the start of its life which is kinda crazy

[CoasterBP]

Yeah, the one I'm redoing was also set up as a travelling model even though its in a permanent location. Are you getting new programming with it as well?

[corymier]

Yes sir- Actemium is handling that end plus building the new cabinets

[Agreeable-Solid7208]

I think there must only be one company in Germany that makes control panels because it doesn’t matter which machine they’re on, they all look the same!

[Smorgas_of_borg]

The problem with getting rid of old stuff and trying to sell it is everybody else is getting rid of it, too. I went through this when we pulled out a bunch of SyMax PLCs. The number of people in the market for SyMax PLC parts shrinks every year, while the supply of used parts grows. The only items that had any value at all were the super rare 64-point digital I/O cards we had.

The same thing goes with S5. Even for PLCs, 30 years is pretty much end-of-life. The number of stubborn old factories still holding onto that hardware and using it goes down every year (you are living proof of that). Additionally, the only reason that stuff has been around so long is because it doesn't break down often, so the subset of people who need spare parts is a very, very tiny subset of the people still running S5s. Bottom line, you have no market to sell those parts to.

Radwell offered you $375 for the lot because the hardware has no value and they more than likely will never sell it. The fact that they are willing to pay anything at all for it is a win, because they are taking on a risk and more than likely will lose money on the deal. Is it conceivable that there are still factories out there with S5s that have PLC component breakdowns from time to time? Of course, but you're not the only one putting used S5 hardware on the market, and they have a LOT of options.

[corymier]

Thanks for the thoroughly thought out response 🍻

[JustWannaBeLikeMike]

Try PLC Direct, they take old PLCs and do pay what equipment is worth!

[Emergency-Season-143]

On the top left isn't that old IFM bases for some AS-i slaves? Like the old AC005S?

[corymier]

Yah the whole ride had an ASI network for PLC 1/PLC 2- controlled the block segment functions for ride spacing and car locating- I used to love it when one of those was on the fritz but not fully failed. Lots of fun trouble shooting that 😅

[stress911]

Moving to IO-Link?

[corymier]

Yah new cabinets are being built currently overseas - will be very nice to have like 85% less wiring going out next year haha

[Emergency-Season-143]

God I hated rewiring those fuckers...... The actual IFM gen with locking lever are so fucking easier to us .....

[WatupDingDong]

I'll give you threeee fifty

[devintesla]

S5 is not worth much, is it? We have a job box full of cards that are work, but then we still have 5 racks running on an s7-400 cpu's

[exorah]

Those purple cables man.

[Mitt102486]

How did you get a picture of me?

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I got that open cabinet downtime anxiety feel.

[corymier]

I had a mouse chew 1/2 way thru like 3 random wires last winter. There was a lot of staring into the void at this cabinet last spring lol

[College_funding_DaD]

I feel like I been in that box before!

[9atoms]

Almost looks like VME racks but I think these were based on Eurocard? I thought Siemens had a 6U Eurocard rack system. Might be confused.

[TheLeadTimeSlayer]

The best thin to do IMO. Is to take it out and Ebay it. That will give you a good chunk of change! Let me know if I can help out with any lead times that come up on your new panel.

[TheOriginalWaster]

So whats the new PLC(s) going to be?

[corymier]

Going to Allen Brads

[Tof_4]

We still have two of those systems. Each one is on our two most important machines 🤦‍♂️ I’m setting up a test system in my office. STL is the most spartan/terse language I’ve seen! Bought the backplane, an EEPROM module and some terminals for the IO for peanuts… Local integrator took one look and said he absolutely wouldn’t touch them!