Thanks very much for the information Kawkisaki!
The robot controller does have the 1GN board and I was able to use the Arc Start contacts on CN3 plug pins 2 and 3.
I’ve ran into another issue tho!
First off, the robot controller is:
Kawasaki robot controller
Model: E42F-A002
(Sorry Lemster68, I forgot to mention at the start)
You may have guessed this, The error we keep getting is “Arc failure” (E6502) as the controller has not received a signal to indicate welding has started.
Is there any way to turn this input off?
The welder is set up and automatically welds once the ‘Arc Start’ Contacts close (on the 1GN board, CN3 plug) but it does not have any ports to connect to the controller, plus the control voltage on the welder is 9V.
I’ve been looking through the external I/O manual (Kawasaki robot controller E series) but with no luck...
the couple of points I’ve seen which I thought would work were...
If inputs are set to 1000 (outputs to 0) they are unused and not worried about, so in my monitor screen I can see a ‘I002_EXT_WCR_INDIVI’ input and when I change its setting to 1000 (was 1153) it no longer appears on the input monitoring screen but the fault still occurs when I start a cycle (it starts welding great, but stops once the scratch distance is reached and goes back to original position and starts again - it did this 4 times before the fault would occur, I was able to change it so it did not keep repeating it).
I also noticed in the manual the input is a software dedicated signal, so is this something in the TP I can remove or do I need to look at the coding of the program on a computer and possibly remove the need for WCR signal?