On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:24:26PM -0800, Wayne E. Van Loon wrote: > On 11/18/2010 01:57 PM, Aaron Burt wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:55:56PM -0800, Daniel B. Herrington wrote: > > > >> All, > >> > >> I'm starting to do some investigation of PLCs for a project involving > >> marine (ship) management. > >> > > Sounds interesting. > > It sounds like your best bet is to use Modbus over serial or ethernet. > > There's a lot of OSS Modbus stuff. > > > I am curious as to why you immediately thought Modbus would be needed. > For communications between the PLC and a computer?
Yep. Daniel wanted to gather data from the PLCs. But really, I don't know much about this stuff. I wish I knew more, and could actually work on it, but that's not what's paying the rent right now. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
