Posts by KFirebaugh

Yeah I'm definitely a newbie. We got one at work and nobody knows how to run it, I got a three day crash course from the guy that installed it and was thrown to the wolves. I've caught on to quite a bit but there's also a ton that I don't know. I figured out the issue though, not sure if it's a band aid fix or not but it worked. I have my home and light position at joint, then when it moves to P[3] it's still in joint at 15%, then P[4] and P[5] I switched to Linear at 3 mm/sec like I needed and it runs through the program fine now. But now I'm having a problem with my feeder controller showing remote alarm 1 randomly and fails to ignite, the tech I called said it's a loose wire in the controller so I guess I'll trace that down

Testing a program on the M20i-A we just got at work, we were given a basic program to toy with that I've been running and adjusting. The parts we're running come with a basic outline of optimal settings to get the desired coat which require mm/sec movements on my P[3] through P[5]. I've got my program and points running smoothly in joint in percentages, but anytime I try to switch from Joint movement to linear or circle arc and switch to mm/sec I'm getting the MOTN-063 alarm. I've changed my home and light position to Linear also thinking maybe if they're all running the same motions it'd fix it but no such luck. Any ideas on what I need to change or re-teach to get rid of this issue? Thanks in advance.

I do not, I wasn't exactly sure how to go about setting that. I'm going into this blind and doing a lot of trial and error, and my workplace lost the manuals so it's making my job more difficult.

Model of robot is Fanuc M20iA

We just got a plasma spray robot system at work and I’m learning as I go after a three day training crash course. I’m struggling to program the spray gun to arc from one end of a part to another while holding a constant 5.5” spray distance. Attached is a rough idea of what I’m trying to accomplish. I need the gun to be spraying around a 45 degree angle upwards on P3 and 45 degree downwards by the time time it reaches P4. I’ve got it pretty close by running it in world but the spray distance changes by about an inch between points due to the head changing angles. Is there a better way to program this to keep constant 5.5” between P3 and P4 that I’m not aware of?