Fanuc 430iw/rj3 EE Plug, Whats out there?

    I want to utilize the EE plug on our robots to fire some valves for a pneumatic gripper. Normally we just cut the cable at the back of the EE connector and wire in our own plug but I don't want to do this anymore. I found that numatics has a faunc specific end plate [url]http://www.numatics.com/Common/PDF/TDG22FNDS2-0EN.pdf/url] and this would be the perfect solution for what I need except that it does not match up to the pinout for our robots. After many phone calls and searching I am lost. What do most of you do with the EE plug? Do you just buy a cable and cut the end off of it then terminate it into a junction box? Is there no pre-made junction boxes out there? Or other plug and play/ready made valve manifold solutions?

    I always get just a bare EE plug and solder up whatever I need to it. I then terminate it into a hoffman box on the arm somewhere with a terminal strip mounted inside. Easy as pie. You just have to understand that some robots are sourcing outputs, while other older ones are sinking.

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