Hello all, we have taken delivery of a Motoman NX100 weld cell with a Fronius 3200 TransPlus power supply. This is a used cell in great condition. When it got here a few weeks ago it took a while to hunt down some missing cables but we now have it to the point where it will Arc Start but then immediately goes to Arc Failure. Now this Fronius is much different than our Miller supply's were used to. I read the Fronius and Motoman manuals regarding them and understand:
There are 3 ways to program welding with this setup:
Local: where everything is controlled through the front panel of the power supply. We set Output 14&15 to on to enable this function and program on front panel on program 0. Same arc fail outcome.
Program: Uses AON_FR to set welding parameters. Pulls from a pre set list of programs made by Fronius from 0-99 depending on wire diameter and what material you are welding. Set to program 6 which our manual specifies as 0.035" wire for mild steel. Still Arc start fail.
Job: Uses AON_FRJ to select jobs made by user stored in the power supply. We made up a schedule and went to run it using the AON_FRJ command and still an arc failure.
At this point I'm fairly confident we have an understanding of what we are doing programming wise. I don't know what else it could be. Once again it will strike an arc and immediately fault.
We checked wire, gas, tips, nozzles. Is it possible the control is not getting an arc established?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We are at a stand still. We had a conversation with Motoman, we tried all their suggestion, still arc failure.
Thank You