Don't feel bad Hood, I also got a certificate, framed it, went over to the instrument guys at work, showed it to
them,  asked a few questions, and they reminded me of the saying that "you never know how stupid your are until you enter into someones elses expertise". That said, i quess the other saying of " you have your license to practice
so go practice on someone else" also applies. 

RICH
 

LOL, well  I am certainly not an expert with the PLC but its not that hard to do the basic stuff.  I did the ladder for the lathes gearbox, turret and toolpost and after a while it all sunk in and was fairly easy, the mill will be a walk in the park compared to the lathe. It was for me a lot harder to write the macros to control the clutches and the turret and toolpost.
 Below is a screenshot of the first few lines of the Lathes ladder, its the clutch control for the gearbox speeds.
Hood

Hood and Others.....

   I tell you this, if your using ADC products and you have a complex thing to do, STAGE LOGIC will be the best thing you have ever done!!
I break all my stuff up into stages (think of them as pockets of latter logic that perform specific functions), in your stage program, you can call these
"sub-routine like" pockets of ladder. That way you dont have layers, and layers, layers of interlocks to try and keep track of. The only Code that will
run on a scan is the one whos stage or stages are active.

scott

Will have to look into that if I am doing anything complex, thanks for the tip.
Hood

C MON  HOOD,

lets have a Beaver update. before it grows fuzz. 

Ed

Update is I have done nothing Have done a few things to the lathe such as fitting the servo to the spindle and fitted a load meter for the spindle but afraid work justs keeps getting in the way of progress on the mill
Hood

No worries......"Balding" wont grow fuzz. 
"Clean Shaven" however, will grow back.
RC

Hood,
 
 I understand very well. The money making jobs just take up too much time. 
I've got some projects of my own , that I've had for over 20 years , and no time for them.
I'll probably take them with me to the grave. 

Ed

No worries......"Balding" wont grow fuzz. 
"Clean Shaven" however, will grow back.
RC

You're beginning to step over that "line" again, remember New Years eve? 

Dave

Hi Hood,
   I almost purchased this one. It's an NC-25. 8200 lbs. (just to be sure there was no typo in your 1st post as it looks similar to yours)
Is this the model you have ?

Thanks,
RC