I am looking for a way to monitor certain arc faults then use a singular output to notify the PLC, to prevent excessive resetting. Is there a variable for active errors that I could write into a BG logic program or something I am missing in the weld equipment setup? I looked into the error output option, it is excessive for what I'm after.
Error output to PLC without error output option
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C_hiney -
March 28, 2022 at 12:37 PM -
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What about condition program?
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Condition monitor or Bg logic would suit this well but I need a way to identify when an arc start fail or lost detect occurs. Needing a way to identify specific errors outside of error output so when said error occurs i can trigger an output. Variable or a setting i have overlooked? Outside of karel because i have zero experience with it.
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Are you using EthernetIP by chance? If so it is very easy to get the error codes to output to the PLC with message instruction.
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Do you have the remote iPendant option?
There's the RSS Alarm list function. You can reach alarm through EthernetIP, in HTML form.
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Condition monitor or Bg logic would suit this well but I need a way to identify when an arc start fail or lost detect occurs. Needing a way to identify specific errors outside of error output so when said error occurs i can trigger an output. Variable or a setting i have overlooked? Outside of karel because i have zero experience with it.
Look into the manual, section with alarms - each of them has a specific ID and a number, such as:
- ARC alarms => ID = 53
- ARC-013 PAUSE.L Arc start failed => alarm number is 013
which meens: the ARC start failed error number is 53013.
For the rest use the same method
Then use condition program:
WHEN ERR_NUM = 53013 ....
No need to have special function and options, which also work fine