A? A? A?I want to do first step on setting Pickmaster : calculate Count per Meter. I load ppacal.prg and run it on manual mode until FP say : “ready for calibration”.A?
A? A? A? On jogging menu : CNV1 activated and distance show 0.0 mm. When I run conveyor, diplay show a positif value (higher than 0.0 ) .But when I stop conveyor, the value go back to 0.0. Why it is happened?
A? A? A? As long as I remember, after I stop conveyor, the value must be hold on the current value. Based on pickmaster manual there is a note "after ready for calibration stating we have to turn to next step, or if it is not success we have to run convetor a little bit ( to reset encoder value) and start from beginning"A?
A? A? All wiring is connected properly. The speed value on c1speed is stable (0.19). But the position counting up while the belt is moving is showing low ( flickering) value.
After we run this program on manual full speed, c1connected becomes 1 and the result is the position counting up (positive) while the belt is moving. And when we stop conveyor, the value is hold in the last/current counting.
When we make c1DropWObj become active so c1connected becomes 0. Or when conveyor moves until value over than 20000 (max distance), c1connected becomes 0 automatically.
On other word, we can control DropWObj. we know that DropWObj is similar with ppacal. How to control ppacal??? In my case when I use PickMaster, I find that ppacal is always active so position counting is always show flickering.
This is our detail steps :
run flexpendant on manual mode
load ppacal.prg
run ppacal until showing “cnv is ready to calibrate”
hold off “motor on”
running conveyor ( we don’t use camera so we think we don’t use “strobe” to calibrate count per meter)
A? A? My greatest hope is that I can run system using PickMaster as easy as I run system using Conveyor Tracking option. I have run system using conveyor tracking for many times, but my boss want to replace with the new one called Pickmaster.
Did you edit the ppacal.prg program?
Are you using the default I/O configuration files, or did you load some old?
What is wired into pin 9 on the encoder board?
What do you mean by the positions is flickering? What values?
How far did the position count before resetting? (jog window)
How far did the position signal count before resetting? (c1Position)
What the meaning of standart I/O configuration? If I change the signal name (i.e. I change di1_1 to Start_from_PLC), so the I/O configuration becomes not standart anymore?
A? So what I must make sure when I do ppacal is that LED of pin-9 will flash. I will try and report to forum as soon as possible.
The meaning of standard I/O config is that when you start a system that has the option “Prepared for PickMaster” it will have pre-configured I/O signals
doManSync1
doManSync2
..
doTrigVis1
doTrigVis2
etc.
When running PpaCal it sets the doManSync signal that corresponds to the workarea to be calibrated. It also assumes that you have wired the system according to User’s Guide. I.e. doManSync shall be connected (wired) to the strobe input of workarea to be calibrated.
So in short - yes one of the LEDs of the conveyor board should flash at the same time as the doManSync when you run PpaCal.
Thanks God, I have found the way out, although I have not found the root cause yet.
The doManSync1 LED on I/O board is always light on, although I have make Flexpendant I/O Simulate from 1 becomes 0.
The doManSync1 (mapping unit 8) is connected to Start Signal (pin-9) on Encoder Unit.
The Strobe of camera is connected to Start Signal (pin-9) on Encoder Unit too.
When I disconnect the strobe of camera to pin-9 Encoder board (now only doManSync1 is connected to pin-9), the problem is gone.
I can do ppacal (The doManSync1 LED on I/O board is flash once) and the position value is hold on the current value.
For short term, I must disconnect The strobe of camera from pin-9 everytime I calibrate Count per Meter or Base Frame Calibration.
But for long term I must find the root cause, and I guess the root cause is the strobe of camera.
Maybe you have the experience about strobe of the camera and how to observe it?
It sounds like the strobe of the camera is permanently set to “high”. This may indicate that the I/O port of the camera is damaged.
Do the following to check the camera:
-Find an empty input on the controller I/O board.
-Connect the strobe of the camera to this input.
-Open the camera configuration dialog of the camera
-Check “Enable strobe offline”
-Verify that the LED of the I/O board input is flashing rapidly (it strobes once for every acquired image).
-You may also go to a dialog where you can do single trigger (calibration/patmax/blob etc.). Check that the input flashes once for every photo you acquire.
I have done the observation of the camera strobe :
OBSERVATION-1
I connected the strobe of the camera (black wire) to an empty input on I/O board
I opened the Line, opened the camera configuration and check “Enable strobe offline”
I opened the Position Source Configuration, opened Geometric, clicked “Live” and then clicked “Stop”
I clicked “Acquire”
Result: there was no effect, the LED of the I/O board still light on. Even, at the first time I connected it, the LED became light on.
I done next step:
OBSERVATION-2
I connected the violet wire of the camera to an empty input on I/O board
2 - 4 (as steps of Observation-1)
Result: the LED of the I/O board always became light off.
This is the wiring verification (based on RJ-45 jack pin / IO port of the camera) :
Pin-1 (white) : 0V
Pin-2 (green) : 0V
Pin-3 (blue) : trigger
Pin-4 (red) : (not used)
Pin-5 (grey) : 0V Pin-6 (black) : strobe Pin-7 (violet) : (not used)
Pin-8 (brown) : 24V
Pin-9 (yellow) : 24V
Pin-10 (pink) : 24V
Pin-11 (grey-purple): (not used)
Pin-12 (red-blue) : (not used)
As my experience few months ago, the trigger pin-3 (blue wire) was broken.A?
Then I replaced it with the “not used” pin-4 (red wire).
By doing something via Command DOS, it worked (the “not used” can work as trigger).
My question is If I use the “not used” pin-7 (violet wire), what I have to do to make the violet wire can work as strobe?