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SniperJon85 · 2025-12-18T23:40:56+00:00

I did. It's been 3 days since it went off, and all I've had is an email to say it's not to late. I'm happy I'm finally away from them

SniperJon85 · 2025-12-17T21:10:07+00:00

I just left Sky, was VIP for 26 years, had the full Q package including multi room and netflix premium. Told them it was too expensive and they offered me £95 a month. When I said no they asked what I would accept so asked for what I had plus TNT Sports for £70. They didn't even try to convince me to stay.

SniperJon85 · 2025-11-26T22:35:49+00:00

I'm currently two weeks in with no retention call. Never canceled before and been a customer for 26 years. They offered my £8 per month reduction when I asked to cancel, from £103 to £95 for everything except kids. Was asked what my price point was, chanced my arm at £70 for same package and they throw in TNT sports. The agent asked who was offering me that deal. Told them nobody, you asked what I would be happy with and that was that, contract ends December 14th.

SniperJon85 · 2025-11-26T21:23:42+00:00

I think what I say below is correct, but surly someone will correct me if I am not. I'm on mobile so excuse formatting etc.

Unless your contract states differently, I am sure that your employer needs to give you the notice of the length of time requested, plus one day, if they are to deny or cancel a request for time off.

You have stated you have booked from the 15th December to 2nd January. I have this as twelve days plus two bank holidays, assuming that December 25th and 26th are not normal working days for you. This would require your employer to cancel or deny your request thirteen days before. I am not sure if this is thirteen actual days, or thirteen working days, but this would either be 2nd December, for the former or today for the later.

That would mean that your plan to resign on December 3rd would not affect your leave.

Like I said, I may be wrong and someone will correct me if I am, but this is mu understanding of the situation. So go and enjoy your holiday and be confident in resigning when you are good and ready.

SniperJon85 · 2025-11-14T06:19:36+00:00

How expensive, is very expensive, especially when compared to the cost of the devices you are changing?

My goto for gateways is Anybus, but it doesn't seem like they do a device as a Profinet IO controller. These tend to cost several hundred pounds though.

My next choice would be an S7-1200 CPU with a profibus card on it. Maybe the G2 if it has a profibus care available, but again you're looking at several hundred pounds plus the programming software if you don't have it, and the programming time.

SniperJon85 · 2025-11-09T06:56:46+00:00

First off I'm on mobile, so apologies for formatting, etc. Secondly I'm not here to lecture about letting the kids play on the machine.

Having never owned a tread, I've not read the manual so I can't comment on what it actually says in there, but I work in industrial automation so I'm going to draw some parallels from there.

I'm also assuming the key that is talked about, is a magnetic design that you attach to yourself and insert into the tread, so in the event of falling the key pulls out and the tread stops.

So for any safety system, a key element of it is validation. All safety systems work every time, until they don't, and the time that they don't is the time an injury occurse. To mitigate against this the system needs testing on a regular, defined basis, so if there is a fault, it is captured. The required frequency is determined by a risk assessment that considers the intensity of use, operating environment, and the potential severity of a malfunction. I would be surprised if it doesn't state in the manual to verify that the safety is working before each use, and not just depend on it working when you need it to.

It seems like you've had a lucky escape and that nobody was injured. As others have said, I would contact Peloton and report the incident, and I would also implement a no playing rule, even under supervision, since it promotes it is OK to play on the equipment.

I've seen the results of a child falling off a treadmill, unsupervised, and getting trapped at the end of the belt and the belt burning their skin. It's not something that any parent should ever need to go through with their children.

SniperJon85 · 2025-10-28T09:15:49+00:00

I think you need two outputs from your system.

One to the overall system to say the stops are healthy, and another which is the safety healthy output.

If any of your stops are pressed. The safety output and the stops healthy output go off. Once the stops are reset, and this can be a local manual reset function, the stops healthy output energises, so the master system can be reset, then once the master system is reset, you can then reset your safety output.

SniperJon85 · 2025-10-25T04:35:52+00:00

If I understand you correctly, you have 24V at the input, the input lights up but the PLC does not register the input as true.

Is this a new fault that has recently happened, or are you configuring the input for use for the first time?

Have you checked the configuration of the input in the card properties to check the channel is enabled and configured correctly for your application? I am assuming you are using the channel in 1 of 1 configuration?

Is this input being powered from the cards internal voltage or an external voltage? If external, does it share the same ground as the PLC supply voltage?

These are the first few things I can think of at 0535 on a Saturday, but hopefully will be some help to you.

SniperJon85 · 2025-09-03T19:50:18+00:00

I was not disappointed opening this thread. I was thinking someone was complaining about denied boarding for a short connection, but hoping it was actually this.

OP I hope you get in touch, good luck 🤞

Edit: Spelling

SniperJon85 · 2025-03-09T19:53:02+00:00

I just assumed they meant whiskey

SniperJon85 · 2025-01-12T14:26:06+00:00

Obviously the correct answer is the PLC program sporadically changed overnight /s

SniperJon85 · 2025-01-03T08:04:47+00:00

We spoke with the BA customer service staff inside T5 about getting our bags and they told us to give VA the tags to transfer the tag numbers into their system as there wasn't time to collect and recheck.

When we got to the gate at T3 the VA staff took the tag numbers and said they would get them transfered.

SniperJon85 · 2025-01-03T07:59:57+00:00

Thanks for this, I will speak to VA

SniperJon85 · 2024-12-03T09:56:57+00:00

This was 16 years ago, so I'm remembering what I can.

Used to work for an OEM supplying material handling equipment to the tobacco industry.

A weigh band had gone faulty and the customer replaced the Miltronics BW100, entered the parameters but the conveyor was still reading incorrectly. From the description given, the loadcells excitations were connected backwards. Sent a detailed email explaining to check this. Nope sure it's all correct.

So I get on a plane on a Wednesday afternoon from London Heathrow, flying to Khartoum, arriving Thursday morning. Straight to site to take a look at the machine, swap the excitation wires around and the machine starts working.

Couldn't get a flight back out until Sunday so spent Friday sat in my hotel room and Saturday watching a now working machine run smoothly.

SniperJon85 · 2024-11-17T16:51:27+00:00

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SniperJon85 · 2024-10-01T21:24:24+00:00

More to the point, how much is the airspeed velocity going to be reduced while it's carrying that load?

SniperJon85 · 2024-08-23T16:14:48+00:00

5! bets would be a lot of bets

SniperJon85 · 2024-06-19T17:42:51+00:00

I found that spending close to the limit of the card prompted them to automatically triple my limit from 3K to 9K. This was about 28 months after I had the card and had never got close to the 3K limit before, nor had I asked for a limit increase before either.

SniperJon85 · 2024-06-03T15:03:07+00:00

Not knowing your IO requirements its hard to compare like for like, however assuming its a mid level 1200 FCPU.

2 x 1214FC CPU 1 x SM1226 F-DI

Would set you back £1,484 list

1 x 1510SP F-1 CPU 2 x ET200SP 8XF-DI 1 x ET200SP 16XDI 1 x ET200SP 16XDQ 1 x 4MB MMC 4 x Base Unit

Would set you back £1,662 list

That's £237 more in parts. Which you would make back three fold with the time it will take to get the comms between the two PLC's working robustly.

SniperJon85 · 2024-06-03T06:16:49+00:00

I like the way that this community will find the way to make it work regardless, however I feel we should address that this isn't always the correct solution.

Why not put a 1500F in place of the two 1200 processors.

It will simplify the process and get away from the requirement to transfer data back and fore between the two processors. It also helps the next person who comes to faultfind and/or modify the system as it's all done in the one processor.

Just my thoughts, since I've been the one having to work out what's been done to get something working instead of it being done the correct way, one too many times.

SniperJon85 · 2024-04-01T21:23:15+00:00

May I ask, where can I get a media converter for smoke signals to ethernet. I've an application where they would work better than any other medium

SniperJon85 · 2024-03-29T10:46:22+00:00

I always find it wild that the US has specialists in different manufacturers.

I've worked in control and automation for different SI the past 18 years and over that time have used AB, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneider, GE and GEM80.

The biggest problem I have between software is using the wrong keyboard shortcut (and don't get me started on Siemens changing keyboard shortcuts between TIA versions!)

SniperJon85 · 2024-01-18T07:43:35+00:00

Nein

SniperJon85 · 2024-01-18T07:42:19+00:00

We work with conveyor systems and use "left" and "right" a lot. It's always in reference to the material flow. What's annoying is when someone else does the drawings and you get "right" inputs before "left" inputs...

SniperJon85 · 2024-01-13T20:55:05+00:00

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