Manufacturing Automation (MT 451)

Lecture 6

Dr. Syed Hammad Nazeer

Assistant Professor
Office: A Block, Faculty Room
Email: hammad@mail.au.edu.pk
 Retentive ON timer
• Similar to ON timer except that it retains its value.
• The preset value is 4000ms, so delay of 4 seconds
• How can we use the timer after the cycle has completed?
Example
 Example

• Consider the scenario in which a start button turns on the Heater

and the Stop button (normally closed) turns it off. Initially there is a
delay of 10 sec before the heater turns ‘ON’. After the heater is
turned ‘OFF’ the cooling fans remain ON for 5 minutes
 Cascaded Timers

• Thetimers are connected to each other and thus are called

cascaded timers
• Each timer drives the other timer

• Mainly used when a single timer can’t provide the delay

required
 Timers of other PLC Vendors

• GE FANUC TIMERS & CONTACTS:

Enable Input ONDTR Output
• There are of the following basic types: TB
• ONDTR (On delay timer)  Retentive timer
R Time
• OFDT (Off delay timer)  Retentive timer Base
PV
• TMR (On delay timer)  Non retentive timer %R0001

• Contact addressing in GE FANUC:

• %I  represents inputs  %I0005 represents real input 5
• %Q  represents outputs  %Q0003 represents real output 3
• %R  represents system registers
• %AI  Analog Inputs
• %AQ Analog Outputs
 Timers of other PLC Vendors
• Gould Modicon Timers & Contacts:
Enable Preset Value Output
• The figure shows a Non retentive Gould
Modicon Timer. Time Base
Reset Output
• The delay can be calculated by multiplying the Storage Register

preset value with the time base

• The Timer has two outputs, one which operates when the timer
accumulated value equals the preset value and the other output is
inverted

• Contact Addressing:

• 0 at the start represents outputs  0005 represents the 5th real

output
• 1 at the start represents inputs  1002 represents the 2nd real input
• 4 at the start represents Storage registers  example 4004
Solve
Solve