KRC2 and Fronius TPS 400i

    Good Afternoon Everyone,

    I'm currently attempting to integrate a KRC2 with Arc Tech Analog V1.3.3 with a Fronius TPS 400i.

    The issue that I'm having if that the signals required for the Arc Tech dont seem to match up very well with the Fronius I/O. There seem to be so data the Robot is requesting that I don'd have access to on the welder, for example the robot is requesting a 8 bit signal for Burn Back, but the welder doesn't have any IO based on burnback. In the past we used TPS 5000 Robacta and communicated over Devicenet and the IO was set up perfectly with the welder.

    Has anyone ever seen this configuration used before and could provide me a little guidance? I'm worried I'll have to upgrade Arc Tech or downgrade my welder.

    Got a hold of Fronius this morning. Turns out that on the Anybus module that you install to the welder, there are DIP switch settings which you can use to turn the interface into "Retro" mode and have it act like an old school TPS 5000. Switching that, and then updating my hardware on my PLC, and everything is good.

    Thank you for your assistance MOM

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