DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WARM RESTART, COLD RESTART AND HOT RESTART IN PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS
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Introduction
This is a brief tutorial on the differences between different restart types of a PLC. This information is necessary as performing a wrong type of restart in certain situations could be detrimental to the data the PLC is working with.
A Warm Restart of a PLC refers to restarting the CPU (from “Stop” to “Run”), in which program processing/execution is restarted at the beginning* but “Retentive data” is retained. However, all non-retentive bit memory and non-retentive variables are reset to their initial values from load memory.
*Program execution begins at the call of the first startup routine.
A Cold Re/Start of a PLC involves program execution restarted at the beginning and all data (process image, bit memory, timers, counters, and data blocks) are reset to the initial values stored in the program (load memory), irrespective of whether they were configured as retentive or non-retentive.
A Hot Restart has all program data retain their last valid value and program execution is resumed at the breakpoint. The outputs also do not change their status until the current cycle is completed. During a hot restart in which the user program is continued at the location at which the processing was interrupted; the part of the user program that was no longer processed before the power failure is referred to as the remaining cycle. This usually occurs when there’s a power loss to the CPU when it hasn’t been manually put in STOP mode. The ability to hot restart is not available for all controllers.