Component request: linear actuator
Hi. I am experimenting with OpenPLC and SimulIDE together for didactics. Using OpenPLC editor v.3 I can create an hex file and than I can load this hex file on Arduino using SimulIDE. This is an economic manner to do practice with PLC programming. At school PLC is often used to implement automatisms with linear actuators in pneumatic systems. To simulate a such PLC program with OpenPLC/SimulIDE it would be good to have a component like linear actuator with these characteristics: two input signals A+ and A- in order to move the piston to right and to left and two output signals a+ and a- that go to HIGH respectively when the piston touches the right and the left endstops. I think properties of the linear actuator could be the length and the velocity of the piston and the positions of the endstops.
Best regards.
Massimo
You can try to build a scripted component.