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What’s In This Lesson?

This is a larger than average lesson, split into different sections. Use the table below if you want to jump to a section, otherwise, simply follow the lesson down to the bottom!

Introduction (🎥 10m)

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Boolean Instructions

This section of the lesson explains basic concepts, instructions and layouts of Ladder logic when working Booleans. It’s aimed at those that are brand-new to Ladder, but it doesn’t hurt to refresh yourself even if you use Ladder often!

What is a Bool or Boolean? First of, they’re the same thing, Bool is just the shortened version and they are a Data Type that accepts 0 or 1 (True or False).

The Bool is possibly the most used, and important data type!

Normally Open & Normally Closed Contacts (🎥 1m 30s)

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Set & Reset Coils (🎥 3m 30s)

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Inverse Coils (🎥 1m 30s)

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Rising & Falling Edge Detection (🎥 11m 15s)

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Conclusion

This should be enough to get you going with basic needs in Ladder Logic, but don’t worry, we have plenty of examples later in the course that will allow you to see the language in more detail and more use-cases!

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