IRC5 Compact controller and line tracking

Hi

Before I call ABB I would like to ask the question on the forum

Our engineering department bought a brand new IRC5 compact controller with an scara robot from ABB.

The job should use PickMaster picking from a moving conveyor and placing on a moving conveyor

I opened the box and there are no manuals, I look at the connections and I do not see anything regarding encoder connection.

I searched for a couple of hours and everything that I can find is using the regular controller box.

Does anybody has any idea where, how I connect the encoders ?

By the way , nobody ordered the encoders , so I have choices depending on the answer of the question above

Hi

Thanks for the manual but it does not help me.

The manual explains everything about the manipulator, I need to now about the controller and how can I hook up two conveyor encoder for line tracking

Hi

Thanks Lemster68

This is all I found in the manuals but I do not see schematics or specifications

I found pictures of the board DSQC 377B, great, even manual, which show how to hook the encoder to the terminals (green)

How do you connect that "box" to the compact controller? . I do not think is internal, so it has to be external.

Finally got it from the drawings you posted

The answer is

XS17 connector --------------------------- DSQC 377B --------------------------------- encoder

device net

Thank you once again

I have one more "issue" I have two conveyors , each one with one encoder (pick conv and place conv)

I'm lost again.

Hey, there is nothing wrong with expanding your knowledge from another source but I still wondering about the solution,

Is Devicenet capable to split its communication ?

If I get two 377B ? Where do I hook up the second one ?

I think is time to contact ABB ? At least I have some more knowledge

Thanks Skooter

I found the M revision, then I saw the updated info

Product manual
IRC5 Compact
Design 14
Document ID: 3HAC047138-001
Revision: M

Also found

Application manual
Conveyor tracking
RobotWare 6.08
Document ID: 3HAC050991-001
Revision: G

For the purpose of this thread. I found the following

Network based conveyor tracking module CTM-01, DSQC2000

DeviceNet based conveyor tracking unit DSQC377B

Finally now I understand what my options are, how to connect them, etc,etc