Noob Question! Enabling pendant only teach on Fanuc 30ib Plus controller

    Very new to robotics, learning from an expert with Fanuc robots but even he's not entirely sure the process/if it's possible + too busy :P... On our Kawasaki robots they've always been set to ignore the base station setting, meaning we can grab a pendant and flip into teach to make a change to the program. With the new Fanuc we just received, the 4 base stations are located on top of a press and not quite easy to flip back and forth for troubleshooting. If we could make it so the pendant determines Auto / T1/T2 and the base station listens for that it would save a lot of calories haha.

    I understand for production it's not standard to leave it enabled, however if we could change it for the tuning period that would be amazing. If it's referenced in a manual somewhere please let me know that so I can read through it and educate myself further, I couldn't seem to find it myself :frowning_face:

    Thank you for reading!

  • kwakisaki October 26, 2023 at 11:14 PM

    Approved the thread.

    Hi,

    It is possible, but requires a jumper, software option, and modification of Safe I/O.


    Changing the mode without a mode select switch.

    Quote from Loipe

    Hello,

    “External Mode Select” option in the FANUC R30iB robot controller allows the robot cell integrator to use Safe I/O SSO(6) and SSO (7) to toggle the selector switch instead of using the actual switch itself.

    so there is an official Option for that. i had 2 robots with that. was really an improvment.

    old Mode selector gets replaced with a Jumper.

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