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5.0 out of 5 stars VALORACION
Llego mucho antes de lo esperado, en optimas condiciones, recomendables.
3.0 out of 5 stars not a drop in arduino replacement no PWM on a PLC
Don't buy it assuming its an Arduino in a PLC package with which you can migrate existing projects. It is set up for higher voltages and has more of a furnace controller feel to it. You can drive the inputs at 24V without hurting it. Not at all what i had in mind when i bought this. I do see potential. I think true industrial control engineers would laugh at it. But I do believe it has its place. It seems to fit somewhere in the middle. I spent $200 for this device to find out it is incapable of PWM without another $200 expansion module. It's like having a real PLC. They really did take the worst parts of a PLC and combine them with the worst parts of Arduino. There are no digital outputs aside from the relay contacts. You can't run digital temp sensors like a DS18B20 or other things that require true GPIO pins. So no digital bus architectures like SPI or I2C. No PoE is also a bit of a disappointment. So that just about eliminated every project i've done on Arduino. Its like a new ecosystem. This might not be the project clean up tool you think it is. I'm not sure if i can justify keeping this around for an unknown future project if I need to worry about expansion modules and spending close to $500 to get partial functionality of a normal Arduino. I would have been better off buying one of those DIN mount adapters for an uno if i wanted a rail package. I think this is a great concept, but having a more traditional expansion module with familiar Arduino 5V/3V GPIO would help leverage both products and the existing ecosystem of arduinoish stuff.
4.0 out of 5 stars this is a microcontroller not a CPU
The uninitiated should understand that this is a microcontroller not a CPU with a hackable O/S. We're using it for remote sensing only, for which it does the job quite nicely. Yes,, there is a heavy learning curve, C++ is not easy.The ARDUINO IDE makes it easier and it works with it quite nicely. I'd be curious to see it used as an actual PLC on equipment.
Genuinely industrial arduino
Arrived as described, when described.For the uninitiated there's a learning curve, but that's to be expected with new industrial hardware.
Presenta errores en su configuración
El equipo presenta errores, no está aún del todo optimizado el PLC ide que es la interfaz de configuración.No he podido conectarlo por un error muy básico en procesadores, sin embargo al no haber documentación suficiente no se puede corregir por cuenta propia. Procederé a la devolucion
Very poor software, not fit for purpose
The hardware specs are pretty good for the price. Unfortunately, the software makes this PLC virtually unusable. Just getting the software installed was a pain. The installer exited, issuing a vague error message. I had to enable MSI logging to find out what the problem was. After finally installing, the software wouldn’t start. Again, a nonsensical error message provided no help whatsoever. This time the problem was that the software is just unusable if accessed from a different user account to the one that installed it.I could forgive all of the above, given that the product is fairly new, but it gets worse. Once you’ve finally managed to install and start the software, setting up the controller is excruciatingly painful. You can’t connect to it over Ethernet. They decided to remove that feature in a recent software update. So you need to connect over USB. Then, you need to go through this one-time setup for which there is absolutely no guidance built into the software. Then you need to guess the COM port from a list every time you connect.Okay, now that you’ve finally connected to the damn thing, the typical next step is to assign an IP address to the Ethernet adapter. In most software, this is just a text box that you need to complete. For the Opta, you need to do some searching to find a source file that you need to modify.Programming the controller is mostly fine, except that compiling the program is unbelievably slow even for tiny programs. You’ll also find that you need to frequently reboot the controller. I’ve also had the controller crash multiple times when running a trivial program, requiring a reboot each time. I wouldn’t trust this thing to do anything reliably.Finally, I tried connecting to it over Modbus TCP. This works, but it is horrendously slow. Reading/writing single boolean variables can take up to 50ms! This is frankly just unacceptable. For comparison, every other PLC that I’ve ever tested takes less than 3ms, and is typically around 1ms. This isn’t a hardware limitation. This is just a dreadful software implementation of the most simple industrial protocol that exists.To anyone considering this, I’d highly recommend that you look elsewhere. It’s not even good for learning/education since it works quite differently from everything else. A cheap Raspberry Pi running CODESYS is vastly superior to this hunk of junk. You can also pickup a Schneider M221 for a similar price, which is a much better platform for learning and has free programming software that is easy to use and actually works.
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Imported From: United States
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5.0 out of 5 stars VALORACION
Llego mucho antes de lo esperado, en optimas condiciones, recomendables.
3.0 out of 5 stars not a drop in arduino replacement no PWM on a PLC
Don't buy it assuming its an Arduino in a PLC package with which you can migrate existing projects. It is set up for higher voltages and has more of a furnace controller feel to it. You can drive the inputs at 24V without hurting it. Not at all what i had in mind when i bought this. I do see potential. I think true industrial control engineers would laugh at it. But I do believe it has its place. It seems to fit somewhere in the middle. I spent $200 for this device to find out it is incapable of PWM without another $200 expansion module. It's like having a real PLC. They really did take the worst parts of a PLC and combine them with the worst parts of Arduino. There are no digital outputs aside from the relay contacts. You can't run digital temp sensors like a DS18B20 or other things that require true GPIO pins. So no digital bus architectures like SPI or I2C. No PoE is also a bit of a disappointment. So that just about eliminated every project i've done on Arduino. Its like a new ecosystem. This might not be the project clean up tool you think it is. I'm not sure if i can justify keeping this around for an unknown future project if I need to worry about expansion modules and spending close to $500 to get partial functionality of a normal Arduino. I would have been better off buying one of those DIN mount adapters for an uno if i wanted a rail package. I think this is a great concept, but having a more traditional expansion module with familiar Arduino 5V/3V GPIO would help leverage both products and the existing ecosystem of arduinoish stuff.
4.0 out of 5 stars this is a microcontroller not a CPU
The uninitiated should understand that this is a microcontroller not a CPU with a hackable O/S. We're using it for remote sensing only, for which it does the job quite nicely. Yes,, there is a heavy learning curve, C++ is not easy.The ARDUINO IDE makes it easier and it works with it quite nicely. I'd be curious to see it used as an actual PLC on equipment.
Genuinely industrial arduino
Arrived as described, when described.For the uninitiated there's a learning curve, but that's to be expected with new industrial hardware.
Presenta errores en su configuración
El equipo presenta errores, no está aún del todo optimizado el PLC ide que es la interfaz de configuración.No he podido conectarlo por un error muy básico en procesadores, sin embargo al no haber documentación suficiente no se puede corregir por cuenta propia. Procederé a la devolucion
Very poor software, not fit for purpose
The hardware specs are pretty good for the price. Unfortunately, the software makes this PLC virtually unusable. Just getting the software installed was a pain. The installer exited, issuing a vague error message. I had to enable MSI logging to find out what the problem was. After finally installing, the software wouldn’t start. Again, a nonsensical error message provided no help whatsoever. This time the problem was that the software is just unusable if accessed from a different user account to the one that installed it.I could forgive all of the above, given that the product is fairly new, but it gets worse. Once you’ve finally managed to install and start the software, setting up the controller is excruciatingly painful. You can’t connect to it over Ethernet. They decided to remove that feature in a recent software update. So you need to connect over USB. Then, you need to go through this one-time setup for which there is absolutely no guidance built into the software. Then you need to guess the COM port from a list every time you connect.Okay, now that you’ve finally connected to the damn thing, the typical next step is to assign an IP address to the Ethernet adapter. In most software, this is just a text box that you need to complete. For the Opta, you need to do some searching to find a source file that you need to modify.Programming the controller is mostly fine, except that compiling the program is unbelievably slow even for tiny programs. You’ll also find that you need to frequently reboot the controller. I’ve also had the controller crash multiple times when running a trivial program, requiring a reboot each time. I wouldn’t trust this thing to do anything reliably.Finally, I tried connecting to it over Modbus TCP. This works, but it is horrendously slow. Reading/writing single boolean variables can take up to 50ms! This is frankly just unacceptable. For comparison, every other PLC that I’ve ever tested takes less than 3ms, and is typically around 1ms. This isn’t a hardware limitation. This is just a dreadful software implementation of the most simple industrial protocol that exists.To anyone considering this, I’d highly recommend that you look elsewhere. It’s not even good for learning/education since it works quite differently from everything else. A cheap Raspberry Pi running CODESYS is vastly superior to this hunk of junk. You can also pickup a Schneider M221 for a similar price, which is a much better platform for learning and has free programming software that is easy to use and actually works.
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