Posts by Horteniv

Quote from dcwelder

What size wire? Barrel or spool? What size/brand of contact tip?

3/64 4043 wire on spools.

3/64 Tregaskiss standard duty tough lock contact tips

Hello everyone!

I'm having a persistent problem with a Arcmate 100iC / R30iB / Power Wave i400 welding cell and I could use some advice from the forum!

This particular robot cell welds small aluminum parts, each part having four 1" welds. Right after a tip change the welds are beautiful. After about 20-30 parts the operator has to start lowering the trim to keep the arc buzzing smoothly and reduce weld smut / spatter as the arc voltage starts to rise. This occurs in such a predictable fashion I'm thinking about writing a program to check weld feedback voltage and issue a change in trim after each weld.

Has anyone encountered this problem and found a solution to it?

Thanks!

I just encountered this same problem on on an Arc Mate with an R30iB control.

Any position or position register point with ArcStart before an offset would cause a motion stop in T1 or run modes. Continuing the motion in T1 would trigger a TPIF-106.

The problem was solved by changing the order of the motion modifiers to place the offset before the ArcStart.

Glad I found this thread! I was really scratching my head on this one.

Quote from kngooslin

update on what i found.

sample of code looked like this:

J p[1] 40% fine arc start (4,2) offset, pr[1]

I changed it to :

J p[1] 40% fine offset, pr[1] arc start (4,2)

and it works now. I don't remember that the order was that important and this is only on the arc starts

all other points and arc ends look like the top code and run fine. ???????

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