Adept 550 tabletop connection diagram.

[beavis]

Hi there, I just bought a 550 TT , it came w/o the controller though, and I would like to ask if someone can help me with the connections, I believe it's equipped with servos.

  in advance.

[pitl]

Do you have only the robot arm or any additional chassis? Do you have any cables with the robot?
What type of 550 is it, 554, 555, 556 ... You will this information on the ID label on the backside of the robot.

BR
pitl

[beavis]

Hi mate, it's a 554, it's only the arm, and got it w/o the cables, there is one round connector which feeds the motors, a 25 DB male is for the airvalves(that's my idea anyway) and another square male connector with a whole lot of pins and some air-inputs, but that's less important.

There's also a microcontroller on the board where the square connector is mounted on.

The motor of axis 1 is a Panasonic msm042f2g, which has 4 wires for the power and not less than 15 :hmmm:wires for the encoder(that's my guess anyway), of which 11 are connected.

This is what I have been able to find out until now, hope you can point me in the right direction.
Also sent an e-mail to Adept, but haven't heard anything yet, and to be honest, I can imagine they're not really anxious to help me out, but you'll never know.

 

[pitl]

The round connector is to connect the Arm Power cable from the amps to the motors. The 25 DB male connector is just a one to one connection to the 25 DB female on the outerlink. You can install valves or other i/o's there, but the 554 has no internal valves. The square connector is to connect the Arm signal cable to the controller. All Encoder signals and calibration sensor signals go through this cable.

The microcontroller at the inside of the robot is the RSC card, where all the specific robot datas are stored on.

To get this arm running you will need a controller chassis with cards, an amplifier chassis with cards and the Arm Power cable and the Arm signal cable.

Best regards,

pitl

[smitchell]

I have a similar problem with a 550 robot.
I bought the robot and controller used  and it worked for a few weeks.
Hard drive went bad, got a new hard drive, and had the board the hard drive plugs into repaired.
Now I get "option not installed" "Robot module not loaded".

Can someone describe the procedure to tell the controller that there is indeed a robot on the end of
the cables?

They are plugged in and we tried a different rsc board from the back of a different robot--same message.

How does a robot controller know what robot is installed?

This robot WAS working, so I know I have the correct robot and controller.

Know of any individuals near Northern Indiana familiar with Adept?   Tried all integrators in the phone book...
Does anybody have a boot disk for V+ version 12?  We have 11.1,  11.2  boot floppies  and the new hard
drive has a version of 12.1 but I don't have a boot floppy for V+ 12.1.

Smitchel
smitchel