RSView main program/GML for the 1394/SLC500 I/O
Hey men I need some help if anyone has an idea. Starting to get the gray hair from this. Been fighting this for 3 months now but when they ramp production up to 22 hours a day just not a whole lot of time to play with it. Besides they expect me to do a million other things each night being their only VB programmer
we have 8 of these for about 6 years RSView/1394/Slc500 systems which wind aluminum or copper bar around a Mandrel for a secondary coil on a transformer. You can bet it varies a whole lot from 1/4" up to about 2" copper and alum. The rolls are up to 5' across. Reason I say this is when the thing is actually winding bar it's pulling the bar from that dereeler(not powered) with the mandrel which I'm trying to tune.
Recently we had 2 of these 1394 servo's go out, first one I replaced 6 months ago and just dumped the GML program back in and minor problem since it mainly runs smaller stuff.
Now our biggest machine we have running largest coils plus it also will be scheduled with smaller stuff. Replaced servo, dumped GML back in. Nightmare begins.
Ok so I read the manuals in time permitted(none) and try to start tuning this thing. I am clueless because this is first dealings with GML.
1. With a Slc500 that is monitoring all the I/O plus light curtain and the RSView program I learn real quick this is not going to be easy.
2. I can get the tuning set where big bar runs semi ok but they have to break light curtain sometimes to apply things and I get Mandrel Position error. (Thats recoverable but it makes things bad for operator)
3. Main problem I'm getting is Mandrel Encoder error(not recoverable)
? Should I hook directly to servo to try and tune but how would I bypass the slc stuff
? Autotune don't work currently cause it moves a very short distance and stops saying it's ok but its not. Don't think thats right cause its not actually pulling the load.
As usual, the original programmers aren't available since the 1394 was probably obsolete when we recieved these machines
Hey men I need some help if anyone has an idea. Starting to get the gray hair from this. Been fighting this for 3 months now but when they ramp production up to 22 hours a day just not a whole lot of time to play with it. Besides they expect me to do a million other things each night being their only VB programmer
we have 8 of these for about 6 years RSView/1394/Slc500 systems which wind aluminum or copper bar around a Mandrel for a secondary coil on a transformer. You can bet it varies a whole lot from 1/4" up to about 2" copper and alum. The rolls are up to 5' across. Reason I say this is when the thing is actually winding bar it's pulling the bar from that dereeler(not powered) with the mandrel which I'm trying to tune.
Recently we had 2 of these 1394 servo's go out, first one I replaced 6 months ago and just dumped the GML program back in and minor problem since it mainly runs smaller stuff.
Now our biggest machine we have running largest coils plus it also will be scheduled with smaller stuff. Replaced servo, dumped GML back in. Nightmare begins.
Ok so I read the manuals in time permitted(none) and try to start tuning this thing. I am clueless because this is first dealings with GML.
1. With a Slc500 that is monitoring all the I/O plus light curtain and the RSView program I learn real quick this is not going to be easy.
2. I can get the tuning set where big bar runs semi ok but they have to break light curtain sometimes to apply things and I get Mandrel Position error. (Thats recoverable but it makes things bad for operator)
3. Main problem I'm getting is Mandrel Encoder error(not recoverable)
? Should I hook directly to servo to try and tune but how would I bypass the slc stuff
? Autotune don't work currently cause it moves a very short distance and stops saying it's ok but its not. Don't think thats right cause its not actually pulling the load.
As usual, the original programmers aren't available since the 1394 was probably obsolete when we recieved these machines