Thank you Robodoc.
A follow up question ... would you recommend disconnecting the contactor after the main breaker or is 'not pushing the servo power on button' on the pendant playing it safe enough?
Thank you Robodoc.
A follow up question ... would you recommend disconnecting the contactor after the main breaker or is 'not pushing the servo power on button' on the pendant playing it safe enough?
Without 208v3ph available right now (we have 4803ph and would require a step transformer) is it possible to bypass the DC power supply with external DC sources or even feed the internal DC power supply 240v1ph to do initial checks? Minus the servo motors obviously.
Hello Pcarbines,
Thank you for your insight and I am fully expecting this project to be a labor a love, with a several month learning curve. I don't mean to give the impression that I expect this to be leaps and bounds ahead of where we are currently, but that as we get more familiar with the robot/controller/programming, we will be further ahead than we ever could be with strictly manual labor. Even if we can get it going, we will be in a position to "prove" its viability for our desires for the build process.
My thought process is that currently we are in a position to 'build to stock' so we have the time to "play" with setting everything up and comparing the robot's weld quality and time against our manual process. If it's even on-par with our manual process, we will have essentially created a second station to help with production volume.
Knowing that any backup batteries are dead, is the support still out there to reload firmware/programming or whatever else needs to be done?
I sent you a PM JMurph ... I hope your offer still stands.
Thank you, I'm glad I found this place and look forward to learning a lot from this community.
As far as my familiarity with robots goes I'd say I'm comfortable with them and the related systems, but it's a new realm for me and I have a lot to learn (especially on the programming side of it all)
The system was originally tasked with welding and that's what we would be using it for as well. Personally, I feel that the tasks it would be given would justify the investment as the welds are all structurally critical to the product and very labor intensive. It would save a lot on welder fatigue and my rough estimate is that we would save almost half a day in labor per each unit produced. Our/my hope is that we will also be able to utilize it to bring the quality of our product up to where it needs to be.
Hello All,
The company I work for bought out another company back in 2010. In the purchase, we inherited a Yaskawa Motoman SK16M robot with a Yasnac MRC controller. The unit was already "mothballed" before the buy-out for an unknown period of time (the build year on the MRC serial tag is 1998). In my preliminary research I've already found that this unit is a legacy model no longer supported by Yaskawa and that my company would have to make an initial investment of roughly $2k just to supply power to the controller.
Obviously I will have to do quite a bit of hardware checks before I can convince the powers-that-be to make additional investment on this unit.
So my question to you is .... is there enough support out there to justify investing the time to breathe life back into this beauty?
Thank you,
Mike