Posts by C.Crosby

Quote from pdl

You shouldn't have to look far. That controller is too old to support DCS.

I quickly found that out. lol haven't had a chance to investigate further yet.

Quote from cking8177

This may be your answer: Fanuc Robot T2 Speed

ETA: You may also want to look through the DCS on the robot, if it is installed, to verify that there isn't some sort of safety logic limiting your speed.

$RUNOVLIM is set to 100

$JOGOVLIM is set to 100

I looked through the $SCR variable details and everything is set the same as my other robot (same robot and software) except for one variable. $CLDET_PT is set to 9 on the robot with T2 working and the robot in question is set to 4. I'm not sure what that variable is for or if it's even related to my issue.

I'll look into DCS this morning, thanks for the tip.

Quote from David2341

$SCR_T > T2_LOCK_ENB disabled T2, we dont use it in canada so we always disable it.

1 Disabled, 0 = Enabled

Thanks

I checked and it was set to 0. Is there anyway T2 speed can be adjusted? I just ran (SHIFT+FWD) on a different robot in T1 and T2 to verify and it was significantly faster in T2. Both programs were just simple left to right and up and down 25% CNT100 moves from a resting "HOME" position.

Quote from pdl

Please clarify. Are the speeds the same as T1 when jogging, or when executing a program manually from the teach pendant (SHIFT+FWD)?

SHFT+FWD

R-J3iB

R2000-iA

V6.40-1XI/XI

Working on getting another used robot up and running and T2 is an issue on this one. In teach pendant mode T1 moves at the speed our other robots do. (at least visually comparing). In T2 there is no visual change in movement speed.

Is T2 disabled? if so how do you enable it? I'm assuming it's a system variable and ive glanced through but nothing stood out to me with any sort of certainty. I've searched this forum but haven't stumbled across anything specific.

self taught/on the job training/no formal schooling, first time running into this issue.

Thanks.

did you jog the robot to establish pulse, single axis master and calibrate after hooking cable back up?

We build aluminum docks, boat lifts and trailers at my work. all of our welds get cleaned. we brush all welds with a wire brush or brush wheel on a die grinder setup. we use pulse on pulse for most things in production and every welding robot uses the pulse on pulse process.

Lincoln MIG welders on the production line and Lincoln powerwaves for our robots.

have you welded aluminum before in any way, robotically, MIG, TIG? or is this your first experience with it hands on?

copied from google: During welding, the heat of the welding process can cause aluminum to react with oxygen, nitrogen, and other gases in the atmosphere. This reaction can produce a variety of byproducts, including aluminum oxide and aluminum nitride, which can be deposited on the surface of the weld as a black, sooty residue.

I just got this error as well today. powered on machine, confirmed payload and no contact on DCS screen. went to jog robot around and as soon as I push the deadman it triggers this alarm.

how would the code look if you were to do this? I'm having using getting it to work, tried several ways but something isn't agreeing.

I will give this a try today. thank you for your input, much appreciated.

r-2000ia

R-J3-iB

V6.40

i have a work cell welding multiple different parts together to make one part. there are several versions of the final part but the difference is its length. All these versions of the final part use the same jig to locate individual parts. i have a main program which calls out sub programs, one fore each different part. my sub program for POCKETS is dialed in and now i need to do those same welds and moves but -460 mm in Y from their current location. All points in the POCKET program are taught in UF1 and UTOOL1. this shift of the program needs to be permanent and not require me to go change something each time production wants to switch product to run. i would have a different sub program to call out for each different part location ex: POCKET1, POCKET2, POCKET3, etc.

is there a way i can make a copy of my dialed in program, rename it to what i want and shift all the points -460mm in Y? i don't have enough available uframes for each POCKET program to be asigned it's own.

Is it possible to lock out the teach pendant so it can't be used to move the robot in manual mode but still be used in AUTO? I know I can set passwords for INSTALL, OPERATOR, PROGRAM and set levels and timeouts, etc but they still allowed me to move the robot around manually. I was hoping to prevent anyone working in that cell running parts from turning the machine to T1 and trying to move the robot around. recently had a torch head get bashed up and nobody knew how even after telling them I can see 15 minutes before I got there someone turned to T1 and than switched back to AUTO 5 minutes later. trying to avoid that scenario in the future.

R-2000iA

R-J3iB

V6.40

Powerwave r450

I'm looking at playing around with TAST to see if it's something i wanna use in my programming during weave welds. I see a lot of settings i can play with in touch schedule details and i know how to call it out in my program. I also noticed there a program labeled TASTMAST {TAST Mastering}. if i try to run that program it says "NOT IN ADVISORY/DIAGNOSIS MODE press enter to quit". What exactly is TASTMAST? is it something i need to do before making changes in my touch schedule for it to work? i ran some purposely slightly crooked parts with TAST and wasn't really seeing a difference in weld path.

R-2000iA 165F

R-J3iB

V6.40-1

Quote from Lemster68

Compare the cost of a Roboguide license compared to what it will cost to set up your cell. I think that the license will compare quite favorably.

i've been pushing this for quite awhile. they won't go for it here. it's been quite frustrating.

Quote from keyboard7

The location of fixturing from the test cell to the production cells will be critical.

can you explain more?

we use uFrames in our production cells.

So my work has several R2000iA 164f machines with R-J3ib controller. Most of our robots have welding equipment setups. My boss was thinking it would be a good idea to setup one in its own cell for me to create programs on and test them out. Than we would transfer that program to a different machine we already have operating in a production welding cell. The thought being we would have less down time programming new parts on a production robot and there would be less pressure to hurry up and finish programing so we can get back to running production. I than can focus on trying new things, fine tuning things, etc on my own "test" robot cell.

what things should I take into account to achieve a smooth transfer of programs from one robot to another? All welding robots will have the same welding equipment on them and power source as well as the test cell robot.

what issues could I possibly run into?

I haven't really played around yet to see what stuff id run into other than thinking about different scenarios, just trying to get an idea as I'll be messing around with it in a week or two. anyone else do this and have experience to share?

Thanks

check to make sure the Remote/Local setup is turned to Local.

MENU, SYSTEM, CONFIG, scroll down until you see the Remote/Local setup option, press CHOICE to select a different option.

interesting, unfortunately I'm not sure beyond what was already mentioned as I myself am still pretty green when it comes to robots. I work on enough projects though in my spare time to know that sometimes the little things get missed. hope someone with more knowledge on here can be some help.

After touching up user frame did you power off the machine and power it back on? the guy who set up our robots(not a robot guy by any means) would touchup user frames and then try his program and it was still off. than he'd come back the next day, after daily shut down, and things would be back to normal or more off depending on what he did, he didn't know you had to power off for his user frame touchups to save and actually change.