I know this is not a robotics forum, but you folks are pretty smart and a lot of you work with robots on a daily basis.
I have no experience with robots, but we have three of them so I need to familiarize myself with them as much as I can until I can get my company to pony up for a robotics class.
I have a Fanuc 200ic robot we have set aside as a trainer, and it has an R-30ia controller. It sat for a couple years and now when I try to restart it I cannot move the robot at all. I figured the batteries in the base of the robot were dead so I replaced them and still have the same issues.
I get a SRVO-075 Pulse not established error, which I understand means the encoder is "lost" and needs to see a pulse so it can orient itself. The problem is in Joint mode I cannot move the robot at all, no matter what I do. I cannot do a zero master until I can get this thing to move somehow. I tried resetting the PCA with no luck, and doing a shift-reset as suggested by Fanuc.
I just acquired a maintenance manual from Fanuc, and it suggested that based on my LED indicators (SVEMG LED is red without an E-stop activated) that I may have a Servo Amplifier issue, but tech support at Fanuc said no, if I cannot move the robot I may have a wiring harness problem or a motor problem and closed the ticket. They have been kinda useless to me.
Before I spend the cash to have a service tech come here I want to make sure I am not missing something easy due to my ignorance of this machine.
Thanks
I have no experience with robots, but we have three of them so I need to familiarize myself with them as much as I can until I can get my company to pony up for a robotics class.
I have a Fanuc 200ic robot we have set aside as a trainer, and it has an R-30ia controller. It sat for a couple years and now when I try to restart it I cannot move the robot at all. I figured the batteries in the base of the robot were dead so I replaced them and still have the same issues.
I get a SRVO-075 Pulse not established error, which I understand means the encoder is "lost" and needs to see a pulse so it can orient itself. The problem is in Joint mode I cannot move the robot at all, no matter what I do. I cannot do a zero master until I can get this thing to move somehow. I tried resetting the PCA with no luck, and doing a shift-reset as suggested by Fanuc.
I just acquired a maintenance manual from Fanuc, and it suggested that based on my LED indicators (SVEMG LED is red without an E-stop activated) that I may have a Servo Amplifier issue, but tech support at Fanuc said no, if I cannot move the robot I may have a wiring harness problem or a motor problem and closed the ticket. They have been kinda useless to me.
Before I spend the cash to have a service tech come here I want to make sure I am not missing something easy due to my ignorance of this machine.
Thanks