Product manual

Welding equipment
Appendix 2
Appendix2eng_Man trådmatning.fm 63
8 Appendix 2
Manual wire feed with PIB and S4Cplus, possibilities and limitations:
Manual wire feed can be carried out in three different ways:
1 By pushing in the non-locking push button for manual wire feed on the
welding gun or on the front of the wire feed unit.
2 By activating the function Manual wire feed from the robot’s programming
unit in test mode under: Program window\Arcweld\Manual wirefeed.
3 By activating the robot output doFEED in combination with the setting of a
speed reference in aoFEED_REF under the I/O window..
The table below shows the characteristics and differences between the methods.
Observe comment 3 below regarding the limitation in functionality for method 3.
Method
Speed
1
1. Speed: If the speed range is limited by the configuration parameters MotorMaxSpeed or
MotorMinSpeed the limitation applies.
For ARCITEC it also applies: If the speed range is limited by the configuration parameter
MotorMachineID the limitation applies.
Ramping
function
Safety
pad
pressed
in
Setting the
reference
Explanation
1 Max. 6m/min yes no automatically The arc weld function "Manual Wire
feed" in the robot is called from PIB.
The robot input diMAN_WF is
activated. The robot activates the output
doFEED with a reference in aoFEED
that increases as a function of the time
the wire feed button is pressed in. The
function is active as long as the button is
pressed in. The speed is limited to max.
6 m/min by PIB
2
.
2 Max. 9m/min yes yes automatically The arc weld function "Manual Wire
feed" is called from the robot’s
programming unit. The robot input
diMAN_WF is activated. The robot
activates the output doFEED with a
reference in aoFEED that increases as a
function of the time the Manual feed
button is pressed in. The function is
active as long as the button is pressed in.
3The full
speed range
no yes yes,
manually
Limited
validity
3
The reference range is expressed as
0 - 0.5 m/s (0 - 30 m/min).
The function is active as long as
doFEED is set to 1.