Posts by TitusLepic

Do you have a copy of the FANUC Robotics I/O Unit–MODEL A Connection and Maintenance Manual? It has all the info you need.

My manual came with an RJ3iB controller, but I expect it would be the same for the R30iA - here's what it says you need:

A base unit (they come in 5 and 10 slot, horizontal and vertical - ABU05A, ABU10A, ABU05B, and ABU10B0

An interface module (AIF01A, AIF01B, or AIF02C)

An I/O link cable (K1X) going from JD1A on the controller to JD1B on the interface module

Power cable - make your own. My manual calls for an SMS3PN-5 housing with RC16M-SCT3 pins, but both of these have been discontinued by the manufacturer - I was able to find compatible replacements when I did this project last year.

I/O cards - See attached images.

As I said, this is from an RJ3iB manual; but should at lease get you pointed in the right direction until somebody more knowledgeable comes by with a better answer.

JetWare is an software package from an integrator called SPA (https://shapeprocessautomation.com/), formerly known as DRS, KMT, and RPT - you'll probably have one of those TLAs somewhere on your robot cell. If it isn't a memory problem like Nation suggests, I'd give their tech support a call. They were the original integrator for one of my robots and have been incredibly helpful every time I've had to call them.

I think this post has what you're looking for: Re: Problem with simple circles, is there direct input method for programming them

Do you have Karel as an option?

Fctn > 0 --NEXT-- > 1 QUICK/FULL MENUS

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No idea where to find the “pulsecoder” battery?

What robot model?

Thanks for the help. A little bit of google-fu and some guesswork later, I set the port to 9125 and it started working.

For the last 7 years, I've been using filezilla to connect to the roboguide robot controller using 127.0.0.1 as the host, plain FTP, and anonymous for the logon type. All of a sudden after rebooting my laptop this afternoon, I'm now getting a "530 Incorrect password" error. Nothing has changed in my settings. Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this?

Typing 127.0.0.1 into a browser pulls up the robot web server; restoring older save points has no effect.

Check out this post on the topic: User frames from Position Registers

As kwakisaki said, the robot doesn't contain models of the stuff in your cell. However, assuming you have or can get models, you can get the roboguide cell aligned to the real world cell by using the method mentioned in this post:

RE: Best practice to calibrate real world to roboguide

set $PR_CARTREP = FALSE

Quote from mahboobelahi93

Hi,

Just to confirm,

Does the orient field contain the roll, pitch, and yaw values? and Location field just contains XYZ values?

No. This is a matrix representation of the point. The location vector just contains XYZ values, but if you're looking for WPR representation you'll need to convert your position into XYZWPREXT. I believe that karel automatically converts between the data types, so you should be able to declare a new variable as XYZWPREXT and then assign it your position value. Something like this:

uframe : position

uframe2 : XYZWPREXT

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uframe2 = uframe

write(uframe2.x,cr)

I haven't tested this but from what I've read it should work.

POSITION.LOCATION.X

My experience with lincoln electric customer service has been great - they were able to walk me through board level diagnostics of my 455m after it got hit by lightning. I recommend calling them if you haven't yet - 1-888-935-3877

I'm used to seeing this error when the part that the feature was created on isn't currently on the fixture - i.g, if I draw a feature1 on part1, remove part1 from the fixture, load part2 to the fixture, and then try to generate feature1 I'll get that error.

Quote from pdl

If you want to save money, Radwell has lots of NOS inventory of Model A I/O along with tested used boards. If you need help with part numbers, just ask.

I agree with pdl; I recently installed 16 DI & 16 DO in a robot for $300 buying used from Radwell.

Is weld enabled ON?

This is an example of how I do my circles:

Re: Problem with simple circles, is there direct input method for programming them

You can use the program adjust utility to change all speeds if you want your new speed across the board.

Are you sure that the 1800 number is RPM? I have a robot that was integrated by the same integrator as yours and their "spindle on" program set a 0-20mA output. I.e, 0 = 0 and 2000 = max rpm. I made a program to convert RPM to AO signal to enhance readability - check your "AA_ON" program to see if it's doing an RPM to 0-20mA conversion or just setting the analog output to AR[1].