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Cheers go the replays guys, just really wanted to know how you got into wiring them, is there any literature or any links I could have a little read up about?
 
Trend do a online course....£450+ vat......dont think i will be signing up for that!....but was looking on amazon at some paperbacks of industrial control £20 is that worth a look at?
 
are you talking about wireing them as in panel mods or just field wiring to them?

if its field wiring its very simple, look at panel drawings.

red is normally 24v - find number, number cable and terminate in corresponding number in panel
 
are you talking about wireing them as in panel mods or just field wiring to them?

if its field wiring its very simple, look at panel drawings.

red is normally 24v - find number, number cable and terminate in corresponding number in panel

There you go that course has saved you hundreds of pounds lol
 
plus every manufacter's panels are slightly different but field wiring is generally very similar but im juat guesing here as have only worked on handover panels
 
Ok a short history of controls they were first electro mechanical a bit like a Sangamo timeclock and who is good at making clocks yep the Swiss so 30 years ago th e majority of controls companies as they were known was Swiss ie Sauter, Staffa,Landis&Gyre and so on then electronic controls cam out ie Proportional,Proportional Integral and so on then came DDC Direct Digital Control ie Sauters Micos system then someone put a computer terminal on the front and you got BMS Building Management System great but that meant the Control companies had what was known as proprietory software in other words but a couple of system companies started up ie JEL controls and Trend controls who used IBM based PCs or basically a windows Intel based computer.

Only problem was the big control companies were way behind on using IBM computers so the system companies got the jump on them why because control companies brought out new BMS systems but the system companies stuck to IBM so all their stuff was backword compatable in other words the 1st generation outstation worked on a 4th generation BMS

Got that ? Good

So what do we have now well we got BMS outstations or controllers that have 2 inputs 1 digital 1 analogue 2 outputs 1 digital 1 analogue

Digital either on or off ie input could be an airflow switch on an AHU or output ie BMS switching a pump on
Analogue in simple terms a variable output or input output being say a 0-10v (4-20mA) from a humidity sensor or output 0-10vdc to a invertor drive where you can set the speed of an electric motor.

Great so hold on you say we have PLC control well yep but a BMS is a poor mans PLC and thats how you need to look at it
 

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