Posts by amy_fields

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Thank you so much Nation. That was it. Hot Start was disabled. Much appreciated

I had a pretty bad robot collision the other day after a panel was power cycled. This panel also feeds power to the robot. What happened was a conveyor was full and the robot was stuck on a DI wait for the conveyor to be ready so he could drop off the part..anyhow the panel was shut off for a minor wiring change and when powered back up the robot went home at 100% colliding into the fixture instead of dropping off the part. After we fixed everything we tried looking into why this happened in the first place. What we found was that the robot jumps back into the top of the master program when it loses power and doesn't remain in the subroutine that it was in prior to the power cycle. At the top of the master routine the first call is the GO HOME program. I tried power cycling other controllers here in the plant and what I find odd is that they do retain what program they were in unlike the robot that crashed.

Is there an input that is monitored in the background that would cause the controller to jump out of whatever TP program it is in and into the master routine??

Thank you!

I have not tried a pendant/cable swap yet. I was leaning towards a FW issue as well. I will try both.

Thank you for the replies.

I was trying to change the PR1 Home position and managed to lock up the controller every time. I am curious if it is related to something in the Firmware or hardware. For example, If I go into my home position tp program, copy and paste the PR1 so that I have two of them; rename the first one as PR2 my controller and TP lock up everytime forcing me to restart it. I have swapped main boards with the exact same results.

Has anyone had this happen? Could you explain why? and how you fixed it?

Thanks

Thank you

Has anybody replaced a Main board??

Hello,

I have had a teach pendant locking up more frequently on a RJ30iB Controller so I am planning on swapping out the main board and I have a few questions:

***Is all I have to is copy the image over from the controller that I am removing and insert it into the new board?

***We have a test cell with the same controller, can I insert my CPU into this controller, transfer the image over from the controller that locks up and then simply remove the CPU and insert it into the controller that locks up? (To save downtime)

Thanks

Thank you for the reply. I will do just that.

Hello, could someone please help me out with the following question:

I am trying to obtain a Fanuc brake release box for our robots in the plant. Fanuc quoted me a box and some brake cables for about $5000 so I went to ebay to try to find an alternate I could buy for less. Fanuc quote me part number A05B-2450-J350. I could not find this exact box online however I could find a few break release boxes with the following part numbers: A05B-2351-C214.

The robots we have in the plant are as follows:

Arcmate 100iC

R1000iA 80F

R1000iA 100F

R2000iB 165F

So my question is, could I use the break box model number A05B-2351-C214?

Are there any additional cables I would need?

Please, any help would be great.

Thanks

Thanks, I have a crossover cable plugged into the top port with the IP configured for that port. I am now able to ping the address and access the fanuc web page via my browser successfully. However when try to connect through diagnostics pro it wont connect, it only says ''connecting'' under the robot monitor screen.

Hello,

I am trying to connect Roboguide diagnostic to an RJ-30ib controller unsuccessfully. Where I am uncertain does it matter what IP address i setup on both my laptop and robot?

Where do I configure my ip address on the robot? Under host comms i setup my ip as 192.168.1.1 and my laptop set to 192.168.1.2. I cannot ping the controller.

please if someone has connected diagnostic pro to their laptop through roboguide, would you be kind enough o help me out.

Thank you.

Fixed! Jumper missing between pins 30 and 37 on RPT cable. Hopefully this thread will help out someone else in the future.

Thanks for all the help!

Thank you, please find below the axis limits and current position:
Axis

Upper Lower Current position

1 -180 180 J1 7.784
2 -90 155 J2 -31.553
3 -180 180 J3 -2.768
4 -360 360 J4 -14.873
5 -125 125 J5 -15.029
6 -360 360 J6 -4.418

I set the master_done variable to false, cycled power and moved the robot to its zero position lined up on the witness marks. Verified J1-J6 all read 0.000. I can move all the axis in Joint. As soon as I let go of the shift key I get the jog-001 overtravel fault. Pressing it again clears the fault and allows me to move the robot but as soon as I let go of the shift the same alarm returns. As soon as I jog it in world and stop I get the overtravel fault again however this time I am unable to recover and any one of the axis locks up in one rotation.

Thanks you.

I propably should have noted that detail.....R-30iB

Thank you

Yes, the backup was from the same robot with the same software.

A co-worker dumped in the backup from the other robot while he was playing around.

I did the init start, entered the master counts, mastered and calibrated. The only alarm I have is the SRVO-005 Robot overtravel. It clears when I press shift reset and hold the deadman in and I am able to jog all of the axis, great. But when I jog it in world it moves for a few seconds then I get the overtravel fault which results with certain axis not being able to jog in one of the directions.

Thank you for the help...I am stumped at this point.

Does anyone know the jumper CRM37A/B is located? an don what circuit board. I am trying to verify if the jumper is present.

Also, if my robot had overtravel limit switches where would they be located? I also cannot find these.

Thank you

Yes, power was cycled and the same issues exist.

Thank you

Thank you again. I did just that, I was able to move all axis in joint however I always get a Jog-001 Overtravel alarm. If I move the robot in World I can only move it a little amount and i get a Motn-017 limit error and i am back where I began where I can just move certain axis in either a positive or negative direction but not both. To recap after I entered in the pulse counts and calibrated I was able to move all axis in every direction and now I cannot...I am very puzzled.

Thank you

Thanks for the reply, I am not sure what you mean by makes sense? I checked the master counts against the spec sheet and they do not match up. I manually entered the values from the spec sheet and I still have the same issues. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks