Electronic Systems Group

Applied limit switches over prox sensor. The prox would’ve been harder to attach to cart because it was to big . due to the fact that the metal bars were wide and the prox would’ve most likely stopped a little earlier compared to where the floor was actually at. We decided on 3D printing brackets to...

Mounted emergency phone to the board and wired it to our plc program. Did some work on the plc’s program so now when the plc is moving the motor it will know what floor its on and know which floor and sensors to bypass when a certain floor is pressed. Ex. When we on floor 1 and we select the 4th flo...

Experiments #22, #31, #32 & #33 complete

"Verified 5/7/18 by RJ"

lab complete

wired pushbuttons to the plc, built a stand up mount to for the buttons and monitor. the buttons are moving the motor UP/DOWN only when holding so we have to re program plc to latch the pushbuttons when they are pushed down

lab complete

lab complete

Found out the 24volt motor was too powerful for the shaft, it was adding to much force on the up/down functions but we found a 12volt motor that worked perfectly. discussed on either to add a Prox. Sensor to either the bottom of the cart or on the side to read floors when moving up and down. Also ad...

Experiments 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, and 21 complete
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"Verified 4/12/18 by RJ"

Experiment #26,27, and 10 completed.

"Verified 4/5/18 by RJ"

Chapter 3 complete

applied buttons to the plc board and started working on the door function. debating on either adding multiple doors to each floor or just adding 1 door to the elevator cart

Chapters 1 & 2 complete

lab complete

lab complete

lab complete

started cutting up the 10ft unstrut pieces with a handsaw, sawzall preferable.

went to home depot and got the unstrut pieces and multiple other items

finished working on the plc up/down program and found the supplies needed for the structure.

lab complete