Blowers are used to throw burned chips away from the conveyor when detected.
There are total number of 8 blowers. Number of blowers to be used depends on the width of a conveyor belt.
Time measurement of an event to take place can be used here to measure what time burned chips take to
reach from light source to blowers when detected.
Set this time as preset of a timer to operate particular blower.
There are 8 blowers, so 8 light detecting circuits must be used in order to operate all blowers.
Let us assume we are using Light Dependent Resistor. To use this resistor, threshold has to be set that is
darkest color to be passed as a good quality product. If chips are darker than the desired level, light source
detects it and activates corresponding circuit.
So output of this circuit is normally high and to activate blower, normally low logic has to be set while
programming or we can even invert output from LDR circuit.
PLC Program
Here is PLC program to Detect Burned Chips and Remove them, along with program explanation and run
time test cases.
List
of Inputs and Outputs
I:1/14
= Start
(Input)
I:1/15
= Stop
(Input)
O:2/15
=
Master Coil
(Input)
O:2/8
= Conveyor
(Output)
O:2/9
=
Light Source
(Output)
I:1/0 to I:1/7 =
Light Dependent Resistors
(Input)
B3:0/0 to B3:0/7 =
Bit latching
(Bits)
O:2/0 to O:2/7 = Blowers
(Output)
T4:0
= Timer to activate blower after 1sec
(Timer)