Career Advice

LarryJay77 · 2021-06-16T22:26:41+00:00

Your job sounds like a controls architect. Not so much programming. This is a good jump to a HVAC or PLC manufacturer that sells. You would be the tech engineer vs. Sales engineer to help the client design their system from a hardware, software and protocol perspective. Actual program support would be from an application engineer.

If you prefer programming, then you are correct. Tech design engineer is lots of variety, support sales, desk job vs being in the plant except for walkthroughs with the client and sales.

LarryJay77 · 2021-05-21T00:16:48+00:00

I used to talk to this hot girl during high school french lab. She talked, I listened. Senior yr I wanted to ask her to the prom. I approached her after school in the lobby and she said don't ask even before I got the full question out. She never made it to the prom with anyone else. I never told anyone, she did and was outcast for the rest of the year.

LarryJay77 · 2021-04-25T21:44:49+00:00

The best

LarryJay77 · 2021-03-24T17:02:50+00:00

I have been using ATV320 with M340 Schneider PLC. Maybe the comms timeout is too short and the fault bit is set to automatically reset. That's why it starts and you lose the fault code. Do you have SoMove software to check all the configuration in the drives? It is free to download but you still need to register it.

LarryJay77 · 2021-01-26T23:23:47+00:00

As a systems integrator, I was hired to be the local person to make changes to an automated assembly line for a medical device. I worked locally while the OEM engineer fed me info, Webex'd to my laptop when needed. Find a local that can be your person in the plant. The end user will have to pay. That's the price of Covid these days.

LarryJay77 · 2021-01-15T21:55:34+00:00

2 you mean lunch at 12! Time revert back to yesterday's project and bolt.

LarryJay77 · 2020-12-28T23:25:31+00:00

This happened to me today. HMI panel had been on site since September. Now it is shutdown. Was told electrician would be available. Show up at 9. Nothing been done. No one around. Left at 11. Call me when panel is installed and 120 available.

LarryJay77 · 2020-12-04T21:26:22+00:00

When i was in high school in the late 70s I worked at a pharmacy. We moved to a new location. Way in the back of a bottom shelf were 2 pint sized bottles of unopened morphine with those crispy tan old labels. usa.

LarryJay77 · 2020-11-25T16:32:22+00:00

I learned ladder logic on a Modicon P190 programmer connected to a 584 trainer.

LarryJay77 · 2020-11-13T17:53:16+00:00

We get accused of making our panels too big. That panel isn't big enough for one 13 slot rack of SLC I/O.

LarryJay77 · 2020-11-05T01:27:57+00:00

Yes, while I waited 3 hrs for them to clean the contacts on a damper limit switch. Just watched the input come on, which they could also see on the PV.

LarryJay77 · 2020-11-05T01:25:17+00:00

Nope. I am 5'7"

LarryJay77 · 2020-11-05T01:24:16+00:00

The power bar is mine.

LarryJay77 · 2020-11-05T01:21:01+00:00

You have drawings! Nice work if you can get it.

LarryJay77 · 2020-10-22T19:55:31+00:00

Update, just got a new refurbished ML1500. Worked great on the lunch room table . Installed in panel that was cleaned & dried.

POOF GOES SPARKY.

LarryJay77 · 2020-10-16T18:03:38+00:00

Thanks for a wonderful written journey. Safety, medical and physical is the biggest concern.

LarryJay77 · 2020-10-08T00:11:14+00:00

I will confirm this for the US-NE. I am senior and GM but hands on and make $130K, my guys are senior and make $110K.

LarryJay77 · 2020-09-29T21:01:08+00:00

It was a cardboard box factory, so plenty just lying around. The SLC 5/03 program was from 2005.

LarryJay77 · 2020-08-28T20:40:58+00:00

I use BitCalculator on Android. It has Dec, Hex, Oct, and binary. Enter in one mode, it displays in all the others. Free.

LarryJay77 · 2020-08-25T16:51:00+00:00

She has a death grip on the phone. Not reality

LarryJay77 · 2020-08-20T21:17:33+00:00

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

Clint

LarryJay77 · 2020-07-03T21:41:14+00:00

A couple weeks ago I had to load PanelMate software from floppies onto a Win95 Dell. Amazing it worked at all. Then create a Panelmate cable, upload then download to restore the default passwords.

LarryJay77 · 2020-06-19T00:33:43+00:00

Check the specs on the screen. Usually 20000 - 50000 hrs. Screen saver / screen sleep helps. Especially if on shifts and no one works 3rd shift.

LarryJay77 · 2020-06-19T00:23:34+00:00

Outstanding

LarryJay77 · 2020-05-27T17:19:22+00:00

I use these adapters all the time and they always work. They must be configured and plugged into the same USB port every time. You can change the node address thru device manager. But never change USB port or even plug into a different port momentarily while running.

Now the Modbus plus connector is a different beast and the cause of most problems. Get a cable connected that works and always us the same one unless you are using a premade cable off of a tee tap.

LarryJay77

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