Does anybody have any experience with SCADA/PLC classes in Northern California (Sacramento area in particular)? I'm looking for classes on Allen Bradley PLCs.
I noticed Sacramento City College has ET 362, which briefly mentions PLC systems, but does not specify which brand of controller is taught.
They once would the tool to use in the busuiness but, lately they have been running the business down a rabbit hole. The cost for the software tools alone will put you in the poor house.
We work we recently good a new laptop (Panasonic taugh Book) and all the software tools from AB, each costing many bucks. In the end, I think the totol cost was $12k for everything and that isn't the whole pinch on the story..
The 5000 series software and the processors it programs are somewhere in the range of version 27 or higher now and you need all versions that you deal with on your PC. Because newer versions will not connect to cpus with older firmware versions. Oh, btw, the old CPU's can be updated to match the current version of tools (5000) you have however, you still need a copy of the program in the old one befor you do this. And just hope nothing goes wrong with the process because you can brick the CPU/PLC
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