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Hi e-tip
I don't know if i understand you right, but wiht SmarTac you can also search with the wire instead of the gas cup, so no need to use the touch sensing from fronius.
we had to add a Rc network for the touch sense to work on Fronius. It goes up in the wirefeeder as i recall. purchased from Fronius, part of the nozzle touch sense kit
Which robot/controller model are you dealing with ?
Which version of Smartac / BaseWare are you using ?
Do you have Multitasking available ?
That said, the previous versions ran through a initiation sequence where it makes sure that Sense is low, then sets init and waits for ready to go high and all this has to happen in a certain sequence or your init will fail.
#1 If you have a newer robot / version, make sure you're using the Smartac I/O version, which I believe doesn't use the init sequence (since that was a part of the actual board)
Smartac is just added functions that link to the input signal from either the smartac board or the Fronius input signal. To use the gas cup with Fronius, you do need the kit but then it should work across their standard communication to the robot. The signal should have already been mapped if Fronius came on the cell from ABB. If not it is easy to add. It just depends on if you have the TPS or TPSi series power sources.
matt
