Think and Do 'Starter Kit'

[johnny rotten]

Finally broke down and purchased the above kit (company actually did). Haven't spent much time with it yet, and am installing it on an older XP laptop. Downloaded the free software, no issues, it does behave and look a little bit different than the instruction booklet (3rd edition, may 2002).  Having an issue getting the 'WinPLC' listed.  Link led is green, have done the reset using ipx and no luck yet.  Again, have not spent much time with it yet.  Any suggestions, and have I just purchased an older version of this, should I have purchased something different and more up to date.  Thanks.

John

[Controls Guy]

If you're thinking of doing new development in TnD, especially with WinPLCs, I'd recommend against it.  The hardware is end-of-life and I believe is not going to have any new versions.  Plus my personal experience with flowchart programming is that it's a PITA, at least TnD.  I've seen some that were somewhat less annoying.  Regardless, I'd take ladder+SFC+ST (typical PLC languages) over any of the flowchart variants I've seen.  Your mileage may vary, though.

[deep6ixed]

If you're thinking of doing new development in TnD, especially with WinPLCs, I'd recommend against it.  The hardware is end-of-life and I believe is not going to have any new versions.  Plus my personal experience with flowchart programming is that it's a PITA, at least TnD.  I've seen some that were somewhat less annoying.  Regardless, I'd take ladder+SFC+ST (typical PLC languages) over any of the flowchart variants I've seen.  Your mileage may vary, though.

Or make sure they get that 'curious' spirit.  My whole world of non traditional PLC programming started because a buddy had a simple website he wanted to get working.

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