CLICK PLC - How to Place PLC in Run Mode (Part 8) from AutomationDirect

okay we now have our project written into the click CPUs memory let's put the CPU into run mode to get ready to test our [Music] project from the PLC pull down menu on the main menu screen select PLC modes as shown here or you can click on the PLC modes icon located on the PLC toolbar the PLC modes dialogue box can also be accessed by clicking on the connection status indicator located on the toolbar as shown here wow that's three different ways to access the PLC modes dialogue box in the software the PLC modes dialogue box will be displayed the opposite of the current mode will already be checked so to change modes just click the okay button I know that sounds confusing but in my soft software it said that the CPU is in stop mode so if I go up click on the dialogue box when it pops up it already says run so all I have to do is click okay to verify the CPU is in the Run mode check to see if the green LED run status indicator on the CPU is illuminated we can also select the status monitor icon located on the status Toolbar to see status conditions of the ladder logic we now have our project loaded and running in the cpu's memory well we've talked about all this and we're talking about putting the CPU in run mode but we've only been using the software there is another way to get the CPU and run without using the software now keep in mind when we first started out we established Communications with the software we're plugged into Port one and the terminal button on the CPU has to be in run mode on our traditional direct Logic plc's the terminals on the CPU all have term stop and run typically if you're communicating with software you want to be in term stop meant you forced it to stop and run meant you forced it to run well on click you only have two selections you have run and stop if you're communicating with software it has to be in run doesn't mean that CPU is going to be forced into run it just means it's going to be in run and the software can control the function of the processor or the CPU so here we've got it in run we're established Communications so I can select software tell it what to be in stop or run now if I remove Communications which I do here I can tell the CPU by selecting the terminal switch that I want to force the CPU into run mode right now it's still in stop because that was the last state so I can go down to stop back up to run and you can hear that the CPU is actually running we did this with just the terminal switch part nine in this video series will show you how to test your project using the built-in data view feature of the software and until next time thank you for [Music] watching