Thank you all for your comments on this problem. For those fixated on the rate of oil burning, the car is burning a quart in 500 miles. Others asked if the car was smoking. No, modern (cat-equipped) cars don’t smoke when they burn oil. This oil consumption is unacceptable for a dealer-maintained...
A local Nissan dealer just told a lady friend that her 2005 V-6 w/96000 miles had suddenly begun to burn oil at a high rate because the catalytic converters were disintegrating. They claimed that when she went downhill and lifted her foot the pieces were being drawn up into the combustion...
When building small control panels w/PLC's I'm usually adding them to an existing control for a large machine. The OEM control is often an all AC relay-based system, with a 24VAC control voltage, and 240 (or 480) 3-phase powering the big motors, etc.
I mount a 24VDC supply to run my PLC...
I've been building control panels & enclosures for years, but have never solved the problem of having my DIN rail terminal block numbers fade away after a few years. It's always light getting into control cabinets that fades the T-block numbering - inked by hand onto the blank marker cards...
We need one! We're Southern California stampers, running Bruderer BSTA30's & 50's, 10 year old hyd-drive models.
Luckily, 98% of the problems are in the controls - and I can handle these electrical issues in-house. But...., once in a great while something mechanical (ie., terrible) happens...
