Pre-Turbo PMAC
Discussion about PMAC Products earlier than Turbo PMAC (including PMAC2, PMAC, PMAC-PC, and more) along with their software, including PeWin32, PCOMMSERVER, PCOMM32, and more.
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I have a Universal lite 602402-106 that has been in a box for 9 years, it looks brand new & I'm just trying to see if it is useable, but I cannot establish any communication with it. I've tried it in an ISA slot,Ive tried a few different base addresses, & I tried it via serial & no joy. The led's light up on power up , I have green pwr indicator & the yellow led, the red watchdog does not light up. It has battery backed memory, I imagine the battery is dead by now, will that be a factor? I've gone through the jumper settings & set all to defaults as per the manual. Any suggestions? I'm no expert with these, the only other one I have set up was …
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may i know that what is maximum frequency for encoder input of PMAC2 PC/104?
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I have a three color offset printer application in which three axis are mastered to a phantom axis and the phantom axis is mastered to an aux axis feedback channel which is driven by an idler roller which tracks the paper as it passes through the machine. Intermittently, the whole system comes to an abrupt stop in a fashion that suggests the motors are being driven to zero speed, as opposed to coasting. The sudden stop damages the press plates. Mtr 1-3 Parker motors with GPH 30/60 Amps Mtr 4 phantom axis using stepper electronic feedback Mtr 6 aux axis This is a Turbo PMAC2 VME frimware version 1.938, with Sick/Stegmann absolute encoders and ACC51P Opt2 for all fo…
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Hi Thanks for looking at this. I have been using a PMAC Mini (ISA) for performing 2 axis of servo motion. Axis 1 was used for Torque Control; Axis 2 was used for Position (Velocity) Control. It has worked ok for many years. Last week, I could not get it to Jog properly on Axis 2. Using PEWin software, if I issue a Jog Stop ( J/ ) command, the motor is energized and immediately starts moving at a slow rate in one direction. Attempts to change the direction using the J+ or J- command has no effect. Also Jog to Position command ( J:xxxx) does not work. I measured the Servo Voltage output from the PMAC Mini card. It was around 150mV before energizing; and sligtly more…
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Hello, I'm working on a plant with 3 Pmac2/PC104 racks, all connected to the same PC; 2 are connected with Ethernet and one with serial (since I need the DPRAM on ACC2P). Each PMAC has its own HMI, communication server is PCommServer (Pewin32Pro2). One of these PMACs (with Eth) showed a pretty strange behaviour: while working one of the axes executed the "end of cycle" movement in advance (but the others didn't) but, worst of all, the machine stopped responding to commands. I connected with my laptop to see what was going on and as soon as I established the communication the machine started responding again.... This thing happened twice, and while the anti…
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RS232 connected, to load the backup file. Load the parameters. Load movement programs. I can not load the plc. ER003 executing "open plc 0 clear"
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I am using a PMAC2 PC104 card. We are controlling two servo axes. The system has several PLC's, PLCC's and a motion program running. Most of the time the application performs well. Usually once in an 8 hour shift the controller will perform some of the I/O operations out of sequence, for example turning on an output, not the same one or at the same time all very random. I was wondering if anyone had seen this before. I am leaning toward resetting the device with a $$$*** and reloading all programs, maybe a program buffer corruption error. I would appreciate any advice from anyone that has seen this before. We have used Delta Tau for years running different variation…
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On one of our older machines running NC 2.36(1) we received the following error message, which is an Inhibit message: system: 3007 Pmac run-time error System was in Auto mode running a program that has run many times before. Servo control was just fine, there were no other glitches. When system was switched from Auto to Manual mode, error was reset and no flags were tripped as viewed by PEWIN32, so no debugging could really be done. What are potential causes of this error?
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Hi people I'm really new working with this Devices, so i have a lot of questions but right now i'd like your help to communicate my PC with PMAC VME. I have the PWIN32, let me explain you what i did...firstly opened the MotionExe and appears a pop-up,push ADD button and select Device Number. Then push setup button and select Serial Port (using COM1, 9600, NONE) and push OK button, in that moment appears another pop-up what it says ""Unable to establish serial communications"" i used all baudrates and didn't work. I forgot to make any other configuration?? help me
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I'm using Profibus MLDT sensors to close the loop to some hydraulic axes. To do so I get the encoder position from profibus and put it into a 24 bit register e.g. m1000->X:$772,0,24,S Then I set up the Encoder conversion table to get the data from "Parallel pos from Y/X with filtering" (but actually I tried also from Y and without filtering). The Issue that I have is that the ECT doesn't correctly apply bits shifting, so regardless of the setting I get 1/32 of the value in M1000 as position counts. so if M1000 equals 10000 I get 312,5 cts if I set "Normal shift (5 bits to the left" and also if I set "No Shifting") Macro Shifting gives a different result. …
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Hello I have an application that is using Pcommserver (4.2.0.11). It's talking to a PMAC-VME 8 axis firmware 1.15T. I know that PewinPro2 suggests to change firmware due to I63 & I64 not available for this firmware version. But I can still use it & communicate with PMAC. Sometimes Pcommserver hangs with the following message: **** Watchdog as tripped or Reset Pressed.Communication to Pmac stopped. Close all applications including PmacServer. If watchdog tripped please do a hard reset or recycle power first. **** The problem is that the watchdog isn't tripped. So what is happening, a Pcommserver bug ? Thanks four help.
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Hello guys, I am totally new with PMAC. I have PMAC1 Lite PCI. And, I am just wondering how to generate a sine wave of high frequency (more than 1kHz is good) without a coarseness, and the output voltage is between 0V and 10V. Actually, I already built a code but it is not still satisfied for me. My code is only satisfied for low frequency ranges. Because, I want to drive a piezo actuator in open-loop condition with sine wave of high frequency more than 1kHz using PMAC. Any suggestions are very welcome! Best Regards, Rendi close ;close any buffer opened delete gather ;erase unwanted gathered data undefine all ;erase coordinate definitions in all co…
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I have troubles communicating with a Pmac2A/PC104 through Acc-2P. I am able to program the IP address, the card replies to ping (both from Pewin32Pro2 and "dos" command) but refuses to communicate. The CPU is a 80 Mhz 5CF option. Since I have another identical CPU (with opt12 added) I tried with this one and.... this way it works, so it's not a fault of the ACC2P. I tried resetting the card with E3 jumper with no result. Swapping the CPUs I noticed that with the "bad" one if I plug the USB cable with the PMAC already powered windows says that the USB device could not be recognized, but if I power the device with the cable already inserted it is correctly recogn…
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I'm using Pmac2A/PC104 with OPT12. 12bits ADC input, I wish to use this input as the motor feedback device. I did follow the instruction set the following CPU Analog Inputs I903 = 1746 ;Set ADC clock frequency at 4.9152 MHz WX:$C014, $1FFFFF ;Clock strobe set for bipolar inputs M105->X:$0710,12,12,S ;ADCIN_1 on JMACH1 connector pin 45 M205->X:$0711,12,12,S ;ADCIN_2 on JMACH1 connector pin 46 During set-up encoder conversion table, there are only "Acc28 A/D register (no rollover)" in conversion type. Source Address "$C005 PMAC2(ADC1A)" But, I found that the value at position not tally to the value M105. The origin position feedback is 16 bits data, how t…
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Does anyone have any experience trying to run PEWIN32 V2.38 Under Windows 7 - 32 Bit? The program loads but does not install the Driver properly. Tried using MotionX to add the card but there is always a conflict. We are using PMAC-PCI Board.
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I am using Pmac2, I need to set-up a stepper motor with encoder feedback. Encoder counts x4 decode is 8192cts/rev. Most of the stepper driver do not have exact matching step size, example stepping set to 12800 pulse/rev. When running the motor, it seems that require very long settling time to reach the actual position. Any parameter need to change instead Ix30 servo loop gain?
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New User here , I'm using a 8-axis PMAC machine controller with G/M code gui. I have been using the machine for quite some time indexing into position and static drilling aerospace parts , (5-axis motion) XYZBC rotary tilt (B) being the 4th axis and (C ) being the 5th axis. My problem is that I have developed a post that is using all 5-axis motion to laser cut a profile or contour but the controller is treating the radial axis in degrees p/minute and the linear axis in feedrate mode G94 "cutting mode" I need to maintain constant surface speed. When executing just a linear move x,y,z the machine traverses in the programmed feedrate , but when there is a B or C move asso…
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Any idea about how to access DPRAM on PMAC PCI mini form a DOS based program?
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Any thoughts if this product might work with PMAC1-ISA http://www.arstech.com/item--usb2isa.html
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hardware: pmac2 pc104 non-turbo I have a machine where I need axis 1 to follow axis 3's encoder during a jog move of axis 3. I have successfully pointed I105 to channel 3's encoder conversion table entry at Y:$0722. I have properly setup the ratio I107 and I108. I am using a plc to give the user the ability to toggle I106 on and off to enable/disable the following. When following is enabled, the axis 1 stage has a slight "clunk" at the beginning and ending of the jog move. Is there any way to remedy this? Thanks.
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Just bought another backup board for my ancient press brakes. 1. This board is sn 8417 and it has a much larger eeprom for the firmware on the daughter board. Can I flash this with my pe win just like the other ones I have? 2. The board arrived without the metal tab that wraps around the 60 pin connector and locates it in the PC backplane. Can I buy one? If so where?
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Hi, I make an application using PCOMM32W.DLL to communicate with a GEOBRICK. I'm using wxWidget library, I can load the PCOMM32W.DLL ( at this point PcommServer.exe is starting ). Communication with GEOBRICK seems OK but each time I'm doing a GetResponse ( or GetResponseA, or GetResponseEx or GetResponseAEx ) the memory used by my aplication is increased by 4Ko ! Here the prototyping of the dll function I use: typedef long (_stdcall * GETRESPONSEEXA)(DWORD dwDevice,char* resp,UINT maxchar,const char* quest); And here my function to read the GEOBRICK: int IPmacDevice::GetResponseExA(long dwDevice, wxString* resp, wxString quest) { int ret; …
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I think I need auto tuninig for my servo drive with adv 400. I read form the adv 400 book, auto tunining need serial connection. I install pmac suit 32 bit. but there is no serial connection settings. there is only ethernet settings. How can I connect adv 400 with pmac suit on seril connection=?
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Hi, I have Adv 400 cnc unit. We have a servo motor problem. And we change the servo motor and drive. We use analog mod. I change I230 paramater on the terminal. I can control motor with mpg. it seems normaly. I use Jog mod f5 or f6 motor start work but when the motor stoped 1 or 1/2 cycle turns in the opposite direction. why? the problem is 2. motor. you can see the motor 2 setting from pictures
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I see some parameters for motor settings Is any one can explain me what is I230 I231 I232 I233 I234 parameters on the adv 400 ? thanks.
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