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For the last two years, I've been running a machine with an ACR 9040 and two Compax3 drives. Nothing too large, the motors are a NEMA23 and an MPP100. The machine is a flying head wrapper.
The ACR controller will sometimes stop executing, for no apparant reason, when it encounters an axis command. More often the Compax3 drive controlling my wrapping head will fail to execute a "drive on Head" command. When this happens, the machine hangs which of course my operators don't much like. It can sometimes be reset by a simple EStop, sometimes a power cycle is required.
I think that the Compax3 enters a state that is not recognized, let alone resettable, by the ACR. This will happen a few times a week, sometimes a few times a day. There are some other illities as well, the most noticeable a problem running with reverse rotation direction on the Head axis.
I am not so much asking for help as I am wondering how many of these setups Parker has actually sold, and what others have experienced with them. If any of you have set up and run an ACR EPL with Compax3 drives, I'd like to know how well it runs and if you have any issues with it.
BTW, I have another ACR 9040 with an Aries drive, and it does better. The wrapping machine uses Compax3 because the MPP100 motor is too large for an Aries drive. I also have Parker CANOpen IO on both machines, and that works fine. It's just the damm ACR EPL - Compax3... they just don't play well together!
Finally, for anybody who got this far,
ACR 9040 is running ACR9000 1.25
Comm is ACR EPL 1.3.5
Compax3 are C3 2009R08-3_EPL
Program is ACRView 5.5.5
I am considering upgrading them all... if I can get a straight answer out of Parker as to what versions are working with one another for this hardware set. We in fact found some bugs for them in the firmware/OS combinations when we built it two years ago, but that's another story.
Paul T
For the last two years, I've been running a machine with an ACR 9040 and two Compax3 drives. Nothing too large, the motors are a NEMA23 and an MPP100. The machine is a flying head wrapper.
The ACR controller will sometimes stop executing, for no apparant reason, when it encounters an axis command. More often the Compax3 drive controlling my wrapping head will fail to execute a "drive on Head" command. When this happens, the machine hangs which of course my operators don't much like. It can sometimes be reset by a simple EStop, sometimes a power cycle is required.
I think that the Compax3 enters a state that is not recognized, let alone resettable, by the ACR. This will happen a few times a week, sometimes a few times a day. There are some other illities as well, the most noticeable a problem running with reverse rotation direction on the Head axis.
I am not so much asking for help as I am wondering how many of these setups Parker has actually sold, and what others have experienced with them. If any of you have set up and run an ACR EPL with Compax3 drives, I'd like to know how well it runs and if you have any issues with it.
BTW, I have another ACR 9040 with an Aries drive, and it does better. The wrapping machine uses Compax3 because the MPP100 motor is too large for an Aries drive. I also have Parker CANOpen IO on both machines, and that works fine. It's just the damm ACR EPL - Compax3... they just don't play well together!
Finally, for anybody who got this far,
ACR 9040 is running ACR9000 1.25
Comm is ACR EPL 1.3.5
Compax3 are C3 2009R08-3_EPL
Program is ACRView 5.5.5
I am considering upgrading them all... if I can get a straight answer out of Parker as to what versions are working with one another for this hardware set. We in fact found some bugs for them in the firmware/OS combinations when we built it two years ago, but that's another story.
Paul T