Posts by roboprof

Your local Yaskawa office should have a set of I/O mapping for your robot based on your controller and application. Which Yaskawa location did you get your robot through?

Probably battery failure. Change the battery and load in a CMOS backup in Maintenance mode, and hopefully you should be good to go.

You may have to look at an option such as VISUAL DCI or VISUAL DATA EXCHANGE if the jobs are that large and you want to load them remotely

DX100 has 2.6 GB of memory available.

Which parameter file is scrambled?

You should get a set of drawings that come with your robot. They will go through the standard/discrete I/O and then the I/O using the protocol that you are using (Ethernet, Profinet, etc.). The drawings are usually placed inside the controller.

The ladder already maps the External I/O to the General Purpose I/O. You don't need to worry about that. But the diagrams will show you which output signal in the job corresponds to which screw terminal location or ethernet/profinet location.

A couple of quick questions -

Are you in REMOTE?

Is the CMD REMOTE SEL Pseudo Input on?

You may want to enroll for the following course from Yaskawa:

HC10 w/wo DT YRC1000micro Controller w/ Smart Pendant | Yaskawa Academy Online

It's for a HC10 but it should be applicable for an HC20 also.

Not directly on YRC1000. As mentioned you can do it through notepad.

If you are working on the pendant, I would suggest the following:

- mirror shift your R1 job to R2

- mirror shift it back to R1

Correct. On NX100 you will have to go under the PARAMETER icon and change the setting:

S2C 147 - Security mode at Power On

0 - OPERATION MODE

1 - EDITING MODE

2 - MANAGEMENT MODE

String variables can be used in conjunction with the MSG and SETUALM commands.

It might be the wiring harness of the robot if it hasn't been replaced in a number of years.

are you doing an R1+S1 job, or an R1+S1:S1 job?

If you are currently using an air-cooled torch, then you might want to look at using a water-cooled torch.

Also check to make sure that the NCP01 card is mounted properly into the controller and that the card attached to the NCP01 is mounted properly also. I've seen the robot get stuck on the MOTOMAN screen if not mounted properly.

Check also to make sure the pendant cable going into the bottom of the NCP01 card is mounted into the right network port.

What gas mix?

What size and type wire?

What welder?

Are you wanting to weld in CV or pulse?

You can also access the same option under SETUP - OPERATING CONDITIONS in Management or Safety mode on DX100 or newer controllers.

I have never seen before, but check your voltage going into the converter (CV). The regenerative resistor is connected to the converter. That would be my first step.

Make sure you are using the proper weaving frequency. If you are weaving with a different or new frequency, you will need to do the PC data and the current/offset current data.

Did they remove the exhaust ports when greasing?

Did they exercise the robot for 30 - 40 minutes after greasing, with the exhaust ports out?

Keep cursoring down. There may be more options available. The older versions of firmware did not have arrows to show there are more options.