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Video courses by Charles Vance, on the same account as your books. Members pay less; some courses are free.

New: the PLC Simulator, a live Modbus plant. Try it free for 2 hours

Coming soon: Inside the Broker, with a live dashboard. Join the waitlist

PLC Simulator

Practice on a live Modbus TCP plant

Your own private water plant on the internet: a water tank with an inlet valve, a pump, a drain and alarms. Read it and drive it from your own HMI, SCADA or Modbus client, and watch it respond. Load your own register map from a spreadsheet.

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The trial needs a free account (email only, no card). The sign-up link brings you straight back here to start it. Or become a founding member: lifetime access for $97 one-time (limited time), with Pro Library membership for life included.

See how it works first: User guide (PDF)

Register map (PDF) Connect your own client: Modbus TCP sim.learnscada.com port 502, any unit ID, read-only, no sign-in.

Coming soon: a new interactive course

Inside the Broker: MQTT and Sparkplug B from the inside

Every lesson comes with your own private study broker, right in the page. Watch every packet, break things on purpose, and see exactly what a host application sees. Below is the course's dashboard on a real study broker, live and read-only: an edge node reads the PLC Simulator's water tank above and publishes it as Sparkplug B. It opens on Diagnostics, every packet colored by kind; click Sparkplug for the tank's values and Trace for every packet.

One email when the course opens. Joining sets up a Free Reader account, at no cost.

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