The PLC Guy

The
PLC
Guy

Controlling Your World One Contact At A Time

Basic Electrical

Eaton/Cutler Hammer Select Country (USA) then 'Learning', (At left side) then '101 Basic Series' (At right of screen)
Siemens (Select 'Training' then 'Self Study Courses/Publications', then 'quickSTEP')
Basic Electronics Courses

Study Material

Navy Electrical Training Online and available on CD
NEETS In PDF Download modules
Manuals Select 'Free Stuff' on left hand side (download PDF manuals)
Industrial Electrical & Maintenance (Condolences to the Doran family on Ron's passing)

Learning Programmable Logic Controllers

An Excellent Book On PLCs
The Learning Pit Pointers to tutorials and an inexpensive simulator.
Your Personal PLC Tutor PLC Tutorial and Simulator
AB PLC Programming (Restricted copy of RSLogix500 - fully functional for MicroLogix
10 point PLC MicroLogix - must register)
DirectSoft 5 Demo (Applicable to all the AD PLCs but limited to 100 steps)
PLC Trainer - PLC trainers, cables
Training at Ron Beaufort's Site

Talking with others about PLCs

Forum at PLCS Net
Mr PLC

Specific PLC makers

AutomationDirect
Allen-Bradley - A limited forum unless you have a support contract

Interfacing AutomationDirect PLCs to Commander SK drive via Modbus
Handholding for the AB programmer moving to AutomationDirect
RSViewME Image Lister

And As A Diversion My Obsession With Sudoku