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bach6177

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mthomps

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I operate furnaces inside pressure vessels at work via a labview program the engineer maintains, looked like a familiar environment which is why I asked. Thats pretty sweet ocd
 
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mthomps said:
I operate furnaces inside pressure vessels at work via a labview program the engineer maintains, looked like a familiar environment which is why I asked. Thats pretty sweet ocd
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I looked up Labview and depending on the cost, it could be something I need to look into.

I’m using all the same software we have at work and that I have used for decades now but licensing is a PITA. I saved a bunch of legacy stuff that is outdated now but that’s turning out to be a much bigger problem than I anticipated.

I wasted 6 hours on trying to make it all work on a Win10 box but had to bail and start all over on a WinXP box. I have it all talking now but I’m 12 hours in and not happy at all with where I’m at. I’m back on a box PC and monitor rather than a compact all-in-one with a 16” touchscreen.

Properly licensed software that will run onWin10 is $3500 and the matching hardware starts at $12K.
 
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The OCD Garage said:
I looked up Labview and depending on the cost, it could be something I need to look into.

I’m using all the same software we have at work and that I have used for decades now but licensing is a PITA. I saved a bunch of legacy stuff that is outdated now but that’s turning out to be a much bigger problem than I anticipated.

I wasted 6 hours on trying to make it all work on a Win10 box but had to bail and start all over on a WinXP box. I have it all talking now but I’m 12 hours in and not happy at all with where I’m at. I’m back on a box PC and monitor rather than a compact all-in-one with a 16” touchscreen.

Properly licensed software that will run onWin10 is $3500 and the matching hardware starts at $12K.
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I feel your pain about licensing. You can either go really old and find an old GE plc, I think they were 9300/9700 series I think the software was called logicmaster, if I'm not mistaken they finally allow you to use it for free now. I'm an instrumentation technologist by trade, and I do lots of DCS/PLC programming etc, the licensing issue forced me to look for alternatives for small home projects. I ended up finding an outfit that was in the states, they made a small programmable relay that had 4 analog i/o, and 16? Discrete I/o, I dont recall the split of inputs vs outputs, but the thing that hooked me was the software was free and included with it, and it had removable memory sticks, and you could use ladder logic or function block programming, I recall that the only problem with the ladder logic was that you could only have 3 or 4 instructions per rung, so you always had to extend to the next rung if you had lots of instructions in series. I think the function block aspect would have been the way to go. It's been a while and I dont recall the brand, but I will look when I'm home.

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