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Installing the Industrial Shields boards in the Arduino IDE

**Introduction** On this post it is shown the process for installing the Industrial Shields boards in the Arduino IDE. **Requirements** An Industr...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— December 2019 — 2738 views 20IOs ArduinoIDE EthernetPLC IndustrialShieldsBoards IndustrialShieldsLibraries

Basics about analog outputs of an industrial PLC

Introducti on ** On this post, we are going to explain how to do the basics in order to work with analog outputs of Industrial Shields' programmable ...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— December 2019 — 494 views 20IOs analog arduino ArduinoIDE EthernetPLC output

Basics about digital outputs of an industrial PLC

Introduction ** On this post, we are going to explain how to do the basics in order to work with digital outputs of Industrial Shields' ...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— November 2019 — 429 views 20IOs arduino ArduinoIDE Digital EthernetPLC output

Learning the basics about analog inputs of an industrial PLC

Introduction ** On this post, we are going to explain how to do the basics in order to work with analog inputs of Industrial Shields' programma...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— November 2019 — 523 views 20IOs analog arduino ArduinoIDE EthernetPLC input

Basics about digital inputs of an industrial controller

Introduction* On this post, we are going to explain how to do the basics when working with digital inputs of Industrial Shields PLC controller. With ...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— November 2019 — 625 views 20IOs arduino ArduinoIDE Digital EthernetPLC input

Arduino BufferStream Library

Requirements* Here you have the link to check out the available devices in our website which you can use to test this library: None [1] - WiFi & Blu...

Dani Salvans Quesada
— September 2019 — 417 views Arduino ArduinoIDE arduino library ArduinoPLC Industrial IndustrialShields Library PLC Programming Serial

Increasing/Decreasing Timer

Introduction** This post shows how to program a timer in a proper way using the Arduino IDE programming language. A timer can be made as increasing ...

Dani Salvans Quesada
— July 2019 — 503 views ArduinoIDE CountDown Counter CountUp Decremental Incremental Timer

How to connect and configure a load cell using HX711 transmitter with Arduino based PLCs

**Introduction** In this post is showed how to use a load cell transductor using our equipments. Load cell is a transductor that generate an electri...

Eloi Dàvila
— February 2019 — 1704 views ArduinoIDE ArduinoPLC EthernetPLC LoadCell Test

Using a variable frequency drive with an Arduino based PLC

Introduction** In this case we are using a VFD (variable frequency drive or adjustable frequency drive, AFD). The program on our M-Duino 21+ is in cha...

Bernat Garcia
— February 2019 — 1731 views ArduinoIDE Motor PLC

GPS shields using Arduino

Introduction** In this case we are using a GSP shields. Connecting this shields to a Arduino Uno we are able to get the location on our board. To us...

Bernat Garcia
— February 2019 — 369 views ArduinoIDE GPS IoT

Water sensor using Arduino based PLC

Introduction** In this case we are using a basic water digital sensor. This sensor is very useful to detect if its raining or if we have liquid water ...

Bernat Garcia
— February 2019 — 678 views ArduinoIDE Sensor watersensor

How to create a web server to read a SD card with our Ethernet PLC's

****Introduction**** In this example we see how to read a SD card into the PLC through Ethernet connection. We will show how to create a server that w...

Eloi Dàvila
— January 2019 — 918 views ArduinoIDE ArduinoPLC EthernetPLC SDcard WebServer

How to connect a 4-20 mA to 0-10 Vdc Analog inputs

**Introduction** Do you have a *4-20mA analog signal*? You can use the diagram below to know how to connect it to the 0-10Vdc input. The product fa...

Eloi Dàvila
— January 2019 — 1290 views 4-20mA analog ArduinoIDE ArduinoPLC Industrial

** ****Introduction** This is Industrial Shields library for all the different Industrial Shields PLC’s None [1] . **Requirements **** ** Ethernet o...

Eloi Dàvila
— January 2019 — 618 views Arduino ArduinoIDE IndustrialShieldsLibraries Library SimpleComm

How to pause the execution of the code using Arduino IDE with microseconds

**Introduction** In this post it will be seen how to pause the execution code for a certain time in microseconds.  Basically this function pauses the ...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— January 2019 — 688 views 20IOs arduino ArduinoIDE EthernetPLC

RS-485 test on M-Duino PLUS version

**Introduction**** ** In this post it is showed how to test the RS-485 on  None [1]*M-Duino PLUS version* . The first thing that you need to know is...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— January 2019 — 433 views ArduinoIDE EthernetPLC RS485 Software Test

How to upload a Bootloader on an Ardbox/M-Duino PLC

**Introduction** On this post it will be shown how to upload the bootloader on an Ardbox/M-Duino PLC. **Requirements** Ethernet or 20 I/Os PLC:    ...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— December 2018 — 536 views ArduinoIDE ArduinoPLC Bootloader Uploading

Stepper motor speed control using an Arduino based PLC and a rotary encoder

Introduction** In this post we will control the speed of a stepper motor (Nema 17HS16-2004S) using a rotary encoder (LPD3806-600bm). For this we wil...

Eloi Dàvila
— December 2018 — 3458 views ArduinoIDE ArduinoPLC Driver Encoder Stepper

TCP Client on Arduino based PLC

**Introduction** On this post is showed how to connect to a server TCP from Arduino based PLC. The requirements of this post is just an M-Duino PL...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— December 2018 — 529 views ArduinoIDE Ethernet EthernetPLC TCPclient

Pulses Module Library on Tools40 for Arduino based PLCs

**Introduction** On this post it is show how to use the pulses module on Tools40 for Arduino based PLC. ** ****Requirements** Ethernet or 20 I/Os PL...

Alejandro Jabalquinto
— December 2018 — 344 views 20IOs ArduinoIDE EthernetPLC pulses squaresygnal TOOLS40

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