International Islamic University, Islamabad

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Industrial Drives and PLC Lab

EXPERIMENT # 04: Creating Ladder Diagrams in WinProLadder

and Interfacing it with PLC

Name of Student: …………………………………..

Roll No.: ……………………………………………

Date of Experiment: ………………………………..

Objectives:
After performing this Lab, you will be able to:

1. Create Simple Ladder Diagram in WinProLadder.

2. Interface WinProLadder with PLC 100 Trainer
3. Upload and Run Ladder Diagram in PLC 100 Trainer

Installation of Prolific USB to Serial Converter Driver:

1. Double-click the PL-2303 Windows Driver Installer program.

2. The Prolific driver will ask you to install the PL-2303 USB-to-Serial driver will be installed
on your computer.
3. The PL2303 Driver Installer program will now install the Prolific drivers.
4. Now close the installer program when it is installed.
5. Now check the driver check for the “Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port” device in Device
Manager as shown in Figure 4.1.
6. Note Down the port number “COM3” in device manager.

Figure 4.1: Driver in Device Manager

Creating a Ladder Diagram in WinProLadder:

Now create a new Ladder diagram in WinProLadder to be uploaded in PLC as shown in

Figure 4.2.

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 Figure 4.2: Ladder Diagram

Uploading Ladder Diagram to PLC:

1. Go to File > Save As > To PLC as shown in Figure 4.3

Figure 4.3: Uploading Ladder Diagram to PLC

2. Click on Edit button and Check the Port No. here COM1 is selected that is different from
our COM3 port as mentioned in Device Manager.

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 Figure 4.4: Select appropriate COM Port

3. The updated Port “COM3” is shown in Figure 4.5.

Figure 4.5. Updated Port

4. Go to menu PLC > Run PLC or press F9 run your Program in PLC as shown in Figure 4.6.

Figure 4.6: PLC menu to Run/Stop PLC and to run simulation

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5. Go to View > Register Content or press F11 to view the updated contents of registers on
runtime as shown in Figure 4.7.

Figure 4.7: Register contents while PLC is running

6. Go to menu PLC > Stop PLC or press Ctrl + F9 to stop PLC.

Lab Task:
Attach the snapshot of running Ladder Diagram as shown in Figure 4.7.

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