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Garyhlucas

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I guess I can mention it now
« on: June 14, 2018, 09:10:21 PM »
Because we have gotten confirmation our product using Do-more will be featured in the AD newsletter AND we got the cover of Control Design magazine!

We be singing “There ain’t no thrill like the thrill that’ll gitcha when you get your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone!”

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Re: I guess I can mention it now
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2018, 11:19:13 PM »
Sweet! And congratulations!
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Re: I guess I can mention it now
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2018, 01:26:57 PM »
Excellent article.  Informative and not puffery like a lot of OEM-written articles.  Gorgeous control panel too!   8)
I retract my earlier statement that half of all politicians are crooks.  Half of all politicians are NOT crooks.  There.

Garyhlucas

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Re: I guess I can mention it now
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2018, 04:36:25 PM »
Argh!
Just noticed the pictures we picked show the panels with wireway covers removed!  On the other hand I guess you can see they aren't overstuffed speghetti bowls overflowing from the wireways.

I designed this system from the ground up including the frame, plumbing, wiring schematics, panel layouts and PLC programming.  However I am really proud of the panel wiring.  I didn't do it, my field service guy wired it with me supervising. I've been wiring panels since the first one I built with my dad in our garage to unload rail cars full of vinyl powder for floor tile through a weigh scale system.  I was 11 at the time. This panel was Jerry Shaffer's first panel! A shame they didn't show the VFD panel below the PLC panel, being the second one it was even nicer.

By the way, the panels were completely modeled in SolidWorks (not the wires). We pulled a section view of the back panel and imported the drawing right into our Cam program, then drilled and tapped it in our CNC mill. It is really nice when all the holes line up.

BRX all the way in the next units. We were surprised the BRX hardware works out to $1100 less. We also switched valve vendors as the current actuated valves work well but need interposing relays. The new valves use solid state inputs so almost all of the relays shown in the panel go away too.  Big saving there as well. Sorry AD, they were your bases and relays!

Thanks for the kind comments.

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Re: I guess I can mention it now
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2018, 04:56:53 PM »
Can you post a link? I can't seem to find it.
Thanks.

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Re: I guess I can mention it now
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2018, 07:55:31 PM »
At Control Engineering - Home - Control - PLCs - Wastewater Treatment Plants ...
An output is a PLC's way of getting its inputs to change.

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Re: I guess I can mention it now
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2018, 09:36:33 PM »
Thanks