Posts by jackofalltrade

  • Motor repairs

    I have a couple motors sitting around that have been taken off of irb6400 and irb4400 robots. On one, the brake is weak and will not hold the axis and the other, will not completely release the brake causing “movement errors”. Has anyone found a reputable source for these types of repairs? One is a 3hac 3697-1/3
    The other is a 3hab 5760-1/05


    Thanks for any help in advance
    Matt



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  • Irb6400 m97a system disk options

    I have a unit I am installing that has a usb drive instead of floppy. The unit sat long enough that it would not boot. So I cold booted the machine and installed new batteries.
    Is there a way to put the key disk, and disks 1-8 on a usb drive and load everything? Or am I looking at installing a floppy to do the install?


    Thanks for the heads up
    Matt



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  • Irb6400 m97 disk load

    Having trouble with a unit I just picked up. Trying to load software and will not recognize key disk. I have tried making 3 different disks and no luck.


    Any ideas?



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  • IRB 6400 m97a software problem

    Guys,
    The problem ended up being lack of power to the smb. When production was setting up the tooling in the machine the robot will extract from, they dropped a large steel piece on the cable. I had an extra cable. Should be back in business tomorrow if I get the chance to finish up some stuff. If not tomorrow, Wednesday.


    Thanks again to all


    Matt



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  • IRB 6400 m97a software problem

    Ok, back from a much needed vacation and after several calls with abb and making a new set of complete disks, was able to get back to the 38034 error. I notices that when first powering up the machine, the screen and a81 board flash on and off like it is having a low voltage issue until it finally “catches” and then the system boots up. I have never seen this on my other robots and wondering if maybe could be root of problem.


    OTOH, my robot was purchased used and the main cable where plugs into cabinet base there was a short and the connector melted and the pins came loose in the socket. The previous owner just ran the wires through the pin holes into the connector on the cable.


    Was nice finding that.....



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  • IRB 6400 m97a software problem

    So, back again. Same machine, different problem. I was one day from finally commissioning this robot and came in this morning to finish tool alignment with removal of the casting from a machine.


    On the screen was a 38034 error. So, I looked over the cables really well, changed the serial measurement board and the main computer as that is what the error code calls out for.
    .


    Whenever I power the unit back on, the screen and the led lights on the a81 board flash on and off for awhile and then finally come on and stay on.


    Since the disks need to be installed again, which I have because I just purchased them. It asks for the system key disk. BUT, after installing the disk and pressing any button the drive light comes on, but nothing else happens.


    I was supposed to start the cell tomorrow. Guess not happening


    Thanks for any help


    Matt



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  • S4c i/o parameter problems

    Skooter and Lemster68


    Thanks for the help on this. Yesterday, I figures out that the jumpers were just as you stated. I deleted all of the I/O user signals and the board definitions. Restarted, then reconfigured each board with restart. After I installed the user I/O and it likes it. Problem was that the board was not correctly setup before I put in the user parameters.


    Thanks


    Today worked on replacing airline through bottom of base frame......



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  • S4c i/o parameter problems

    I think figure out pins on address key and configured


    All of my input and outputs are setup in my sys param/user signals


    But, when checking my i/o units


    Shows no signals



    Need a little guidance
    Thanks
    Matt




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  • S4c i/o parameter problems

    I have an s4c robot. Purchased new software and key disk from ABB. Installed and now working with i/o. Unit has dsqc 350 and dsqc 328 in the cabinet. The 328 is where I hook my interlock connections. But it doesn’t seem that they were configured in the installation. Help figuring out how to configure these would be greatly appreciated. I am not even sure that the listed “Panel” is configured correctly as the manual shows a picture of it listed as 10 as the address.


    Thanks
    Matt



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