> I'm not worried about wireless though, truck cranes and construction cranes > have been wireless for ages. > > /S
Does anyone know what protocol the construction crane wireless devices use and if they use an off the shelf wireless module? Thanks, DougM On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Jason Burton <lathebuil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 9, 2012 4:23 PM, "Sven Wesley" <svenne.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2012/11/9 Jason Burton <lathebuil...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > As someone who designs automation cells and tooling for robots and > machine > > > tools easily big enough to kill you, wireless pendants would freak me > out > > > for safety reasons. > > > > > > I spec "wireless" sensors for tooling pretty regularly. That said, I > only > > > trust them for non-safety related tasks. > > > > > > Wireless is great for tasks with harmless failure modes. Pinning my arm > to > > > a machine table or braining me with a 200 pound end of arm tool, not so > > > much. :) > > > > > > Just food for thought. > > > > > > Best, > > > Jason > > > > > > > > That's why emergency buttons always should be wired. Hard wired. > > I'm not worried about wireless though, truck cranes and construction > cranes > > have been wireless for ages. > > > > /S > > ------------------------------------ > > That's cool. I bet their wireless protocols are rigorously tested. > > Do they allow payload dropping for overhead loads via wireless? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
