Hi,

I’m looking for any guides or tutorials I could look at to learn a bit about the logo plc. 

I have had experience with PLC in the past as an ex maintenance engineer but never done any programming it was always fault finding on hardware. 

I now have started a business and one of my machines has broke, it’s uses a pcb as the controller and after rebuilding the hydraulic pump and refurbishing the rest of the machine i would like to replace the control system to something easier for me to maintain.

I have bought a logo plc on the recommendation that it would be probably the best/cheapest/easiest one to use for the job. 

There will be a limit switch which will give it the run signal, from there I then want it to operate a number of outputs in a sequence one after the other but I need to be able to alter the run time of each one. 

I think there may be four outputs in total but only three require the time control. 

What hardware would work with this? Pots or encoders? Something that would be cheap and readily available would be beneficial for breakdowns. 

For reference this is a vacuum packing machine, when the lid closes that starts the cycle, vac pump runs for a user set amount of time, seal beam runs for a user set amount of time then the “gas” time runs for a user set amount of time, I believe this is the solenoid valve that releases the pressure but need to fully check all this. 

I’ve never done any plc programming before but always wanted to, anywhere I could learn some for the application I need would be great and any recommendations on what hardware to look at 

It’s an old machine but I like it, it’s robust, everything is switched through contactors so easy to fault find and replace 

Meant to also say I’ve bought a 6ED1052-1MD00-0BA7