Ladder
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Inverted Coil
An Inverted Coil represents the opposite result instruction of the conditions (contacts and/or function blocks) on
the Ladder net before the Inverted Coil. An Inverted Coil instruction can be:
Output
Memory Bit
System Bit
The result instruction can be to an external output device (for example: alarm bell) or to an internal system
element (for example: SB 80 activate linearization).
During the system scan, the processor evaluates all of the program elements on the Ladder net before the
Inverted Coil for power flow continuity.
If no power flow continuity exists in the net: the Inverted Coil address instruction is ON (logic 1).
If power flow continuity exists in the net: the Inverted Coil address is OFF (logic 0).
Set Coil
A set coil separates the coil from the action or condition that energized the coil. Once energized, a set coil's
result is no longer dependant on the action that energized it. A set coil stays energized (latched) until its
condition is reset (unlatched) by a reset coil.
A set coil can be:
Memory Bit
System Bit
Output
An example of a set coil is an overhead light. When we turn on a light it stays lit until we turn it off (reset or
unlatch it) or the light bulb burns out. Luckily, you do not have to hold the light switch to keep the light on.
An example of a coil that you do not want to be set (latched) is a car horn. You expect it to toot only when you
press on the horn button and you expect it to stop when you stop pressing on the horn button.
Use set and reset coils to preserve a condition in a program.
Reset Coil
A reset coil turns off (unlatches) a set coil, provided that there is logic continuity to the reset coil. Once a set coil
is energized it stays energized, independent of the original set condition, until a reset coil with the same address
resets (unlatches) the coil condition.
A reset coil can be:
Memory Bit
System Bit
Output
Do not use a set coil without a reset coil in a program.
Operands
An element's Operand is the form in which information is stored and operated on in the U90 Ladder program.
Operand lists are organized in categories, according to operand type: