AIR UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

EXPERIMENT NO 4

Lab Title: Introduction to Timers ( TIMER ON )

Student Name: Izza Jamal Reg. No: 191850

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 AIR UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Electrical Measurements & Instruments Lab

Lab Instructor: Wasim Iqbal

Introduction to Timers(Timer ON) Lab#04

Submitted by
Izza Jamal (191850)

Fall-21

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DATE:/10/21
 EXPERIMENT.NO.04
Introduction to Timers ( Timer ON )
Objective:
 To get familiar with the concept of Timers.
 Get to know about the implementation of Timers on the software.

Apparatus:
 PLC Allen Bradley.
 LogixPro software.

Introduction:
First one of the standard timers is the on delay timer also known as just TON. This is by far the
most used timer in PLC programming. You will find this in any platform and it is in fact so
useful that you can build the other timer functions with the on delay timer.There are 0-255 timers
that we use.

We have seen three timers provide the time delay functions to control the PLC operations. There
are four main values that timer deals with.

 Timer Address
 Preset Value
 Timer Base Value
 Accumulated value
Each timer instruction has three very useful status bits. These bits are…
 1. Enable bit (EN) = Turns on when timer starts
2. Timer Timing bit (TT) = Turns on in the span in which timer is ON.
3. Done Bit (DN) = Turns on when Timer complete its time.

LAB TASKS:
Task No. 1:

Design a ladder diagram for the scenario.Output to turn on after 10s of Input goes to logic

Input was set before timer .According to the timer’s Preset and Time Base i.e

Timer’s On Time = Time Base x Preset = 0.1 x 100 = 10 seconds

the timer will start for 10 seconds which will results in the ON of the DN pin which will turn on
the output.
Task No. 2:

Lets say we have in the field an emergency stop(push button). Once the emergency stop is
pressed we want the siren to go on after 5 sec for 5 sec.

In this task we were supposed to turn on the siren for 5 second after 5 seconds.For this purpose
we used two timers .Both were set in a way that the first timer gives a delay of 5 seconds while
second timer turns on the siren.This functionality of the timers would be received by DN (Done)
pin.
Task No. 3:

Lets say that we have a conveyor, siren and 1 limit switch LS-01. LS-01 is at the beginning of
the conveyor. When LS-01 is ON we want a buzzer to go on for 5 seconds (Security) and then
we want to start the conveyor. When LS-01 is cleared then we want to stop the conveyor.

In this task , The siren will stay on while the timer is on which would be done by
TT.Moreover,the LS switch would control the conveyor .ON LS will start the conveyor while
turning off the switch will also turn off the conveyor.

Conclusions:

In this lab we got the basic information about Time ( Turn ON ). It tuns on at logic 1 provided by
XIC switch.We set the time on the Switch by giving it required preset and time base.The values
for time base are 0.1,1,0.01.Moreover we perfomed some tasks to have better understanding.