6 - Ladder Logic

Ladder Diagrams

Ladder Diagrams

Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document industrial control logic systems. Ladder Diagrams They are called “ladder” diagrams…

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Permissive and Interlock Circuits

A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control systems where several process conditions have to be met…

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Fail-safe Circuits

Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or solid-state gates, can be built in many different ways to perform the…

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Digital Logic Functions

We can construct simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp circuit, using multiple contacts, and document these circuits quite easily…

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Motor Control Circuit

The interlock contacts installed in the previous section's motor control circuit work fine (as discussed in previous article), but the…

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Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control systems were designed and built exclusively around electromechanical relays. Relays are…

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