PLC 5 adding hardware

[Doghandler]

Gents,

I'm trying to add some hardware to a PLC 5 remote I/O adapter. It has been configure to read the racks as an Remote I/O scanner.

I'm wondering wether I can just use the auto configure to pick up the new cards I add and the adresses for the inputs and outputs. Both cards are digitals inputs and outputs.

I'm hoping the auto configure just allows you to pick up new card and not change any other settings in the program.

Is this how to go about it?

Much appreciated.

 

[ADMIRALKEN]

In the PLC-5 family, when you add a remote chassis, depending on your addressing scheme, a certain number of words are already assigned in the I/O image table, even though the slots are empty. If you look right now, before adding the cards, you should see memory addresses for the slots. As long as the cards will work with the addressing scheme (1-slot, two-slot, 1/2-slot)then no programming is required.

 

[Doghandler]

Thanks,

Yeah I had a bit more of a fiddle around and figures out the addressing using existing cards. Thanks for your help though. Much appreciated.