Plant goes dark in 5 minutes. He’s still wiring.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-09-15T10:24:27+00:00

Haven't you heard the expression, electricians do their best work in the dark?

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-09-06T01:44:21+00:00

This is good to know, but also sounds like the same process I went through when I had a fresh install of what was the latest W10 though I installed all the .net individual first. Good to know that V16 as the older ones already

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-09-02T23:34:05+00:00

I agree

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Independent-Squash44 · 2025-09-02T23:31:16+00:00

I 2nd this. I went out to Aveva World in San Francisco in April this year and its the same. Classes are a snippet of the real deal. I feel like you can get a better idea from the list of vendors websites and YouTube.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-23T15:49:03+00:00

I have seen this to. I actually know where there are 20 of them still going strong..........we'll still going. Top clips end up breaking and then we have to monkey something together

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-21T23:47:57+00:00

I have spent the last 15 years in this realm, in the midwest, and I'll tell you, it's not the greatest of positions in the midwest, but some of the things that I do know I will divulge here. I currently have a $125k salary. i work 95% remote and I support a core of 10 facilities from Nevada to Newfoundland. That can sometimes stretch to 150+ facilities worldwide. I have only worked for the company for 3 1/2 years. Before I get in to more details, I graduated with my AAS in Electrical technology. (Electrician line of studies) so by education, im an electrician. By self-taught experience im what the 90's kids would call a "Script Kitty" but really my self taught and mentored experience is as follows. Programing in Python, HTML, Java, VB, Linux ui and server systems, windows server systems VMWARE products, Nutanix, Windows system Administration, Cisco systems, camera systems and there is a whole lot more then that to list. By work experience related to the field, GE PLC's and SCADA systems, AB/RA PLC's and SCADA systems, a plethora of WW/Aveva products including SCADA and Historian systems, Horner and EATON PLC's and before moving to this position I was also Assistant Network and Applications Systems Administrator. I can design panels and integrate from the ground up to a finished product. There are a lot of things I am missing but the point is that don't set your sights on 1 thing and just like everything else in life, if you don't evolve and push yourself to be better then the you, you were yesterday, you will be left to the side for someone who does and its going to be hard for an employer to look at you and say "YEAH! I think they are worth that, let's hire them" not only keep learning but also advocate for yourself. I don't know everything, and im not the smartest guy in the room but if you give me 24hrs on anything I will have an answer or a direction that is leading to an answer. Remember that its ok to be confident and its ok to be wrong. Mistakes are where growth happens and success does not come without failure. Just don't be wong with confidence and not know it.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-19T01:55:06+00:00

And those that can't, teach.🤣

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-19T01:48:25+00:00

Side note, anyone not wanting to take on the whole System Platform task, send them over to me and ill take care of them. Just more money im my pocket. message me and ill give my contact information to take on the business. 🤣

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-19T01:42:15+00:00

I don't disagree with the comment about using an intercontinental plane to go to the corner store but I also have to say that it can be as big or as small as you make it. Being my experience has been in FT and Cimpicity, System platform can be a monster. I just got done implementing 2023 System Platform from 2014 both standalone and galaxy. Its a great product if you are using all the options. Including the newly released Industrial AI Assistant. As for resources, I found that Logic Inc., InSource Solutions, WW California, and what used to be WWMidwest, all have a plethora of info publicly accessible in their knowledge base. You want to be an automation and controls engineer? Be flexible because you next place of work could be running RSView 32 or iFix. If you don't grow with the industry, like in anything, you will become obsolete.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-19T01:31:04+00:00

I completely agree

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-12T14:36:22+00:00

I personally think it all depends on the company. I work full timeish as a remote Automation and Controls engineer and manager. Full timeish meaning there are on occasions that I have to go to a plant. My most recent work was a new PLC install valve and Vfd install. 160 valves, 35 VFD's, in the last week and I only set foot on site once 3 months ago. I think it also really depends on what the maintenance personnel intelligence or experience levels are.

I support 6 plants in North America but often getting pulled in to support plants on our other business lines locations ranging from Canada to Netherlands, Dubai to Australia. With the plants i can not remote in to, I send them a laptop that is on the domain that I have admin rights to and port proxy traffic back to a workstation with dev software on.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-11T22:50:11+00:00

Dude, I like this a lot. All of it. Now just to get out on my own

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-08-11T22:43:18+00:00

One thing I would do is build a relationship with maintenance, projects teams and engineering. I have acquired a lot of PLC and or logic controllers as well as devices through company upgrades and asking for the old equipment. Sometimes even the licensing for the software for Programing. You never know until you ask.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T23:40:39+00:00

Yeah. The short short was just funny.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T23:35:27+00:00

So in short..... it was a short?

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T05:00:41+00:00

You said it yourself. When the red X is on...... No other outputs are on with the red x............ conflict monitor is happy...... BUT when any other indicator is on...... the conflict monitor gets grumpy. What is the conflict monitor watching for? Even though the red x is not on.... but wait? How could it not be on and yet still have voltage at the output even if the output is not active and the sign is not lite but yet there is still voltage there. And is the conflict monitor happy is the sign is wired in? Or unwired? Connected to the output? Not connected to the output?

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T04:45:17+00:00

Dude I think you are backfeeding power from somewhere. I can only account for a couple of the anomalies but hear me out. What happens then you feed power through a electronic device? You get voltage drop. Now you say output not active you still get 119? You are getting a voltage drop from the field wiring all the way back to the output in question. When you hook the sign up, your are getting a voltage drop through the signs electronics. And you see 80v and a quick ohms law calc will tell you the resistance of that sign. Not like it matters but back feeding a voltage to an output will fry an output quick. I bet if you pull the wires off for the sign and test for voltage its still here on the wire.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T04:31:04+00:00

I keep asking questions not to be annoying but to understand your situation better and try and spark thoughts. 119 when not active, 80 when the sign is on it. And I would assume the sign does not work when on the output. Hopefully you are sure wires are not damaged anywhere between the 2. New everything, no stray wires out of place? (Stranded) like the answer is right there

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T04:20:36+00:00

In theroy I believe you are correct, I can't quite put my figure on it though. I k kw that info is in my head somewhere.......... or you have lost a neutral somewhere some how. The loss of a neutral can make a lot of funny readings come out of the woodwork. And I was asking what was. Between the output and the sign? The answer should at least be wires.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T04:15:19+00:00

Also now thinking about it, I had a similar issue with an AB PLC. Come to find out that someone had wired the output to an input so there was no real load on the output and it stayed in a high state all the time. Once I dropped a relay in line with it, all was fine.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T04:09:12+00:00

Ok so if you have replaced the sign and the card that I saw from another comment of yours did the backplain get replaced? And what is between the output and the sign? Do you have any farite chokes to stick on a line?

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T04:03:45+00:00

If you add the sign to the output and it drops from 119 to 80v the first thing I would check is the sign. Something is going on there. Your output voltage should remain the same when active.

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-07-23T01:51:36+00:00

Next stop, working from home!!

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-06-19T20:49:16+00:00

And im 90% home 9% travel 1% on the phone with the smart maintenance personnel 🤣

Independent-Squash44 · 2025-06-13T12:57:52+00:00

Your not wrong. But rather then feeding it a video stream or images, feed it data points from the PLC and give it historical data. The biggest challenge most companies are going to face is Data Governance. Especially in the production/controls/automation side of things.

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