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Category: Uncategorized

Various subjects that don’t fit other categories

Site Update, Random Stuff

By Frank Posted on July 30, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with random

Hi Ladies and Gents, Boys and Girls… This site was started as a method of providing industrial automation content to co-workers and friends, then to the public. It was started in January 2011, before I published my first book, and …

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Serial Communications

By Frank Posted on September 4, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with Communications

Serial communications are still used extensively in automation despite the lack of serial ports on most computers. It used to be about the only way you could connect to and program controllers, whether PLC, DCS or others. From the Primer: …

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