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Basic Ladder Diagrams Section 4-3
When an INTERLOCK instruction is placed before a section of a ladder pro-
gram, the execution condition for the INTERLOCK instruction will control the
execution of all instruction up to the next INTERLOCK CLEAR instruction. If
the execution condition for the INTERLOCK instruction is OFF, all right-hand
instructions through the next INTERLOCK CLEAR instruction will be executed
with OFF execution conditions to reset the entire section of the ladder dia-
gram. The effect that this has on particular instructions is described in 5-11
INTERLOCK and INTERLOCK CLEAR – IL(02) and ILC(03).
Diagram B can also be corrected with an interlock. Here, the conditions lead-
ing up to the branching point are placed on an instruction line for the INTER-
LOCK instruction, all of lines leading from the branching point are written as
separate instruction lines, and another instruction line is added for the INTER-
LOCK CLEAR instruction. No conditions are allowed on the instruction line for
INTERLOCK CLEAR. Note that neither INTERLOCK nor INTERLOCK
CLEAR requires an operand.
If IR 00000 is ON in the revised version of diagram B, above, the status of IR
00001 and that of IR 00002 would determine the execution conditions for
instructions 1 and 2, respectively. Because IR 00000 is ON, this would pro-
duce the same results as ANDing the status of each of these bits. If IR 00000
is OFF, the INTERLOCK instruction would produce an OFF execution condi-
tion for instructions 1 and 2 and then execution would continue with the
instruction line following the INTERLOCK CLEAR instruction.
As shown in the following diagram, more than one INTERLOCK instruction
can be used within one instruction block; each is effective through the next
INTERLOCK CLEAR instruction.
If IR 00000 in the above diagram is OFF (i.e., if the execution condition for the
first INTERLOCK instruction is OFF), instructions 1 through 4 would be exe-
cuted with OFF execution conditions and execution would move to the instruc-
tion following the INTERLOCK CLEAR instruction. If IR 00000 is ON, the
Instruction 1
00002
00000
Instruction 2
00001
ILC(03)
IL(02)
Address Instruction Operands
00000 LD 00000
00001 IL(02) ---
00002 LD 00001
00003 Instruction 1
00004 LD 00002
00005 Instruction 2
00006 ILC(03) ---
Instruction 1
00000
Instruction 2
00001
ILC(03)
IL(02)
00004
Instruction 3
Instruction 4
00006
00005
00003
00002
IL(02)
Address Instruction Operands
00000 LD 00000
00001 IL(02) ---
00002 LD 00001
00003 Instruction 1
00004 LD 00002
00005 IL(02) ---
00006 LD 00003
00007 AND NOT 00004
00008 Instruction 2
00009 LD 00005
00010 Instruction 3
00011 LD 00006
00012 Instruction 4
00013 ILC(03) ---