Knowledge Base for PMC Features
The goal of this document is to write down cool things you figure out in PMC so you can reference the later. If you find something interesting, add a heading, write a description with keywords and attach your PMC files for reference.
Controlling Outputs Based on Tool Number.
Insert a "Core Value Read" and name the variable. Insert a "Comparison Op" to use the variable with the same name to do something with it. "Current Tool" was the core value I'm reading, and putting the value into "ToolNumber".
The goal of this ladder:
There are separate mist and air on solenoids for each tool.
In order to get mist, I need air on.
Air can be on by itself.
If I turn off mist, I want the air to stay on.
If I turn off air, I want the mist to turn off.
If I switch tools, I want to turn off the old solenoids and turn on that tool's solenoids.
I also want my air and mist selections on/off to follow and force the MIST(M7) and FLOOD(M8) buttons so the lights match the state for the selected tools.
Dual VFD Accelerations
If you want to run most of your tools at an aggressive acceleration but still use a long acceleration on your large tooling this is one way to do it.
First run a wire from an output to one of the VFD inputs. then build a PMC (attached)
This one is turning on the output when out current tool number is between 200 and 300.
So 1-199 will use "Time 1" and 200-300 will use "Time 2"
the VFD will default to "Time 1", and an active low output will switch it to "Time 2"
I used S1 on the VFD
