Posts by mortoch
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Did you inspect the inside of the battery holder? I have seen then severely corroded and not passing the correct power. Pull out batteries and inspect inside of box.
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Thank you for sharing the solution. It is always appreciated.
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Your IT guys should be able to tell you in about 5 minutes flat. I could and I am the lowest IT tech here.
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Is there any trusted computing settings turned on in his bios that is not turned on in yours?
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Your IT should be able to get a wormhole through the remote companies firewall and access the offending computer.
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We use a purge air system for our end tool which is a gripper and puts positive pressure inside of the gripper to discourage debris from the inter-workings of said gripper.
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I permanently fixed this issue once by tightening the cable clamp where the cables all enter the robot cabinet. This is a grounding spot, at least in the older Rj2's.
This was doing the same intermittent DTERR alarm. After tightening that clamp the alarms went away and never returned.
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I knew there was something I was not remembering. As always HawkME you are the man.
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If you highlight the rung of the label and select F4 and see if you don't see "Detail". It has been a long while but I think that will let you do what you need.
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I am not near my robots but it looks like you might need to identify the lbl for it to jump to
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I know the pain. We started with 25 or so used GM robots way back when. Problems stacked on problems stacked on problems and wrapped in an enigma.
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This isn't the one that was leaking around the seal is it?
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You said "if".
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Might want to remove grease zerts and drain plugs before removing cover to release any pressure.
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Whenever I hear "irregularly" in an industrial setting I think lighting issues. I know, hear me out.
There was an issue once with PLC's that would irregularly go out of comm. The majority of the times that it did it was at dawn or dusk. Finally traced down to the dawn to dusk lighting. One of them had a faulty transformer that hadn't completely failed. Often when that light cycled it would spike the system and cause the issue. This was almost 30 years ago so details may not be exact but that is the gist of the problem. Not saying that's your issue but.....
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Any electrical components with contacts are susceptible to corrosion and then failure due to that corrosion, and yes it is worse when they sit idle for long periods. If the contacts are accessible they can be cleaned, best thing is a regular old pencil eraser, but it is usually easier and cheaper to replace with new. I would keep 5 spares if I had 10 robots if they are critical operations. That being said they rarely go bad in my experience.
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check you're fuses in the controller also.
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Have you measured the resistance end to end?