How to Wire a PLC Control Panel Like a Pro

[@kimkelley9269]

Hi from the US! I'm a retired Delta Controls/BACnet Service Manager/Technical Sales Engineer (1999-2018) here. Very nice looking installation! I've seen some real nightmare wiring jobs from my early days estimating system retrofits. It's always nice, as a Sales person, to show off work like this to a customer! I really miss my customers and selling Automation Systems! Keep up the great work!

[@beeautomation]

Cheers Kim Kelly 🙂👊🏼

[@maximusboscus]

Controls Commissioning Engineer here: Finally, a pleasure to see a cabinet builder with a tidy setup on KZbin. At the same level of the BIG players of the industry.

[@dangib4354]

Industrial electrician in a lumber manufacturing plant here. Love the content!

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Which lumber plant. Sierra Pacific Burney California

[@chudchadanstud]

Amazing video, it's truly invaluable. I've always wondered about the wire colours, which ones to use in a panel. I've always had an argument with friends about which colours to use, I always say avoid Blue and Yellow. Blue is for the food industry and ATX, and yellow is for safety. I always use white to represent the negative parts of analogue signals because for thermocouples white is negative. Can you do a video on wire colours in the future?

[@fergspan5727]

Do you write the plc programme ? Is so what language and what’s your approach ? How do you start off and good practise in writing a good ladder logic programme ? Cheers mate

[@notanymore9471]

Brilliant job mate.

[@beeautomation]

Appreciate it bud 🙂

[@aroncells3120]

New subscriber, your excellent at explaining this topic we'll done sir

[@kennethkristensen5537]

Hi. Nice works. Can you helt me with the standard you are using for the wire colour, the white for input and etc

[@vadimkoller6232]

Nice video. Could you share a bit more about your wire labelling?

[@beeautomation]

Will do a video at some point about this mate 👍🏼

[@bdssltdprc]

Nice video. You should mention the power bus layout, especially with 3 phase VFD and servo setups.

[@beeautomation]

Not sure what you referring to mate

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He wants to know how to configure a vfd or speed drive

[@klarnorbert]

Awesome content! Keep them coming

[@windward2818]

Are you working from a wiring diagram? If so, what format is it in? IEEE symbols? Ladder logic?

[@tommynuker]

Where did you get the RTFM light? Great content

[@NickParadigm]

Great video Chris, so wish that you had existed 20 years ago, would have saved me a lot of headaches 🙂

[@beeautomation]

Haha cheers Nick 🙂👊🏼

[@jackl4253]

What do you use for wire protection going from the main backer board onto the door?

[@aaronbrown5631]

Great video, very informative

[@beeautomation]

Thanks man 👊🏼

[@GroverSecuritySystems]

Fantastic video!! Thank you so much. Where can I find these color wire bands/collars you are using? Can you please provide me with a link or brand name to find? Thanks again!

[@beeautomation]

Thanks for the kind words bud. I get them from cablecraft 🙂👍🏼

[@daves4026]

Very interesting worth a subscription.

[@beeautomation]

👊🏼

[@garrettsmith6679]

If it’s got 3.3v going out, where is it getting the 3.3 volts from? And it’s going out to where?

[@carlmarquardt994]

Subbed up. Excellent explanation.

[@beeautomation]

Awesome, thank you!

[@CommercialGasEngineerVideos]

Thanks, this is very helpful. Gold dust.

[@beeautomation]

Glad it was helpful!

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Great content! Subbed

[@manotto3939]

What is the difference btw knx & other technology ?

[@footbal_times]

Hello man.I see you have aswerd a lot of questions.I will ask my question,hoping you would answer. I am 18 year old and I am from Iran.You may know that Iran's industry condition is not ok.In general It is not an industrial country.Now I'm confused about my future.I mean,I'm almost professional in siemens's plc programming,and also good at industrial electricity,but I don't know what should I do.should I stay here and start my own businesses or no,travel and stay in another country.would be worth it to leave my country for success? I don't have compelete information about electrical engineering or industrial automation salary in others country. What is you recommendation man? Believe me your advice can change my life's path❤

[@beeautomation]

That’s not a question I can answer for you bud.

[@footbal_times]

@@beeautomation I expected a long answer,but tnx anyway

[@milomitchener4166]

did you have to get an engineering degree to learn all this? also can you program the PLC too or just wire it

[@sjholmesbrown]

Nice little PLC. Do the expansion modules have a backplane/bus to the CPU or do they rely entirely on the KNX for their data exchange?

[@beeautomation]

They rely on the KNX bus.

[@DrAlexMore]

Any recommendation for cables used for analogue and digital signalling? Any hookup cable will do or they ideally should be individually shielded?

[@beeautomation]

Beldon cable is pretty common bud 👍🏼

[@Gramix666]

I always use ABB VB/K100.1 and VB/K200.1 for my KNX devices.

[@beeautomation]

Nice man, wasn't aware of these!

[@abolfazlalimohammadi4782]

Good points 👍

[@RiadAhmed-ce6qo]

How about loxone ?

[@BrackishWaters]

All this neatness on your wires yet you leave a one hanging on the door in the background the whole video 😅😂 Still, I learned something and enjoyed it. Thanks

[@brianberson4169]

I'm actually a conveyor tech new to field. I have a question maybe some of you can help me but curious why inputs are on the bottom and not top. I'm new to it so please don't make fun of me guys. Im curious if it makes it easier to wire or reason behind it

[@thedutchgamerguy8580]

Completely depends on the brand. You have expansion cards with only input/output, other makes have cards with both in one card.

[@ardentdfender4116]

Agrees with the previous commenter. Brand dependent. I’m more familiar with mostly Allen Bradly Hardware from Rockwell Automations. Their Micrologix line which is their smaller and least sophisticated line of PLC’s is the only line of their PLC’s that you can directly wire input and outputs to the controller. In that line, the inputs are all on top and outputs at the bottom.

[@yassinkurdi5279]

As I am a beginner, what type of PLC is simple and I can start learning with?

[@thedutchgamerguy8580]

Siemens LOGO! is probably a good start. Software is free atleast

[@techhobbyist3662]

@thedutchgamerguy8580 "At least" ??? I just learnt that everything about PLC is too expensive... From IDE to The PLC it self.... How true is this??

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Sir How can I be master of Automation?

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[@lucasnelson6646]

Why use 0-10V instead of the 4-20mA signal? If there is an open in the circuit you will still see 0V, so its harder to see that.. VS 4-20; you know its all wired w/o open bc the base is already greater than 0.

[@BrackishWaters]

Always do it that way myself

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Bro please keep it up

[@mikiyasamare4877]

Thanks alot

[@beeautomation]

👍

[@techhobbyist3662]

I just learnt from someone that everything about PLC is too expensive... From IDE to The PLC it self.... How true is this??

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[@Muhammed-v4x7b]

Hello, I work in Turkey I was working as an intern in building automation, I want to do the same job here, but I can't find it, can you help me

[@beeautomation]

Hey man… look for a position as a “BMS Engineer” (building management system) or “Electrical Controls Engineer” 👍🏼

[@raimondtracar8703]

I thought that COM refers to common not communications...

[@beeautomation]

“Coms” refers to communication with me but it can mean anything to anyone

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my biggest issue with plc is its programming

[@beeautomation]

My recommendation would be to understand schematics, panel building, panel testing & pre-commissioning, then system design (in that order) before PLC programming. Reason being, engineers are far more valuable to businesses if they understand the stages that underpin the PLC programming 🙂👍🏼

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TALK SO MUCH. JUST GIVE SIMPLE INSTRUCTION SLOWLY AND STEADY

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