Table 1. Spot Config Menu Options for SpotTool+
ITEM | DESCRIPTION |
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F Number | This item indicates the robot's F number, and allows you to set it. |
Load SpotTool Macros | Enabling this item will load the default SpotTool macros on the next cold start. This should only be enabled during initial setup if you don't have your own macros. Enabling this item can overwrite any pre-existing macros. |
Number of Equipments | This item indicates the total number of equipments in your system. The default is 1 and the range is from 1 to 5. |
NUMBER of weld controllers | This item is the number of weld controllers used, and can be set from 1 to 10. |
Current equipment, gun | This item defines the current equipment for configuration setup items, and can be set from 1 to 5, and the gun number can be set from 1 to the number of guns defined below. All items indented under this item are related to this current equipment. |
Weld Interface | This item displays the kind of weld interface used on the current equipment. The values can be: DIGITAL, which could be a discretely wired weld controller, DeviceNet, ControlNet, or ethernet interface. The other value for this item is INTEGRAL which would be a WTC Integral weld controller, or a Dengensha Integral weld Controller. INTEGRAL will require the WTC Integral Weld controller option to be loaded or the Dengensha Integral weld controller option to be loaded. Since only 2 IWC cards can exist on the controller, IWC must be configured on equipment 1 or 2 only. |
Number of guns | This item defines the number of guns used on the current equipment, and can be set from 1 to 2. |
Studwelder | This item defines whether the weld controller you are interfacing to is a studwelder that will weld studs onto a part. By default, this item is DISABLED. If studwelder is enabled, you cannot enable the following items:
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Enable Backup gun | This item defines whether a backup gun is available for your studwelder. By default, this item is DISABLED. Set this to ENABLED if a second spare stud welding gun is available, operational, and should be used. |
Tool changer gun | This item defines whether this equipment is a tool in a tool changer system. Enabling this feature will prevent shell polling from monitoring equipment hooked up to a disconnected gun, and will also ignore detect errors for a disconnected gun. |
Soft touch gun | This item defines whether a soft touch gun is used on the current equipment. This allows an assignment of an additional output to close the gun at a lower line pressure setting. |
Soft touch pulse time | This item defines the pulse length for the soft touch gun. |
Multipressure valving | This item defines whether the current gun uses multipressure valving controlled by the robot. |
Number of Pressures | This item defines the number of multiple pressures used, where 2 = high, low; 3 = high, medium, low; 15 = binary multipressures. |
Equalization Pressure | This item defines whether the current gun uses equalization pressure. This allows an assignment of an additional output that is fired during a weld to allow the gun to equalize. |
Number of Pressures | This item defines the number of multiple pressures used, where 2 = high, low; 3 = high, medium, low; 31 = binary equalization pressures |
Extra Gun Contactor | This item defines whether the current gun has an extra gun contactor. |
BackupStroke |
This item defines whether the current gun has a backup stroke. |
Backup Type | This item defines the type of the backup gun - NORMAL or SET/RESET. NORMAL type is where the backup stroke is built into the gun's cylinder. SET/RESET is a mechanical type backup where the backup stroke is held in position by a shot pin that prevents the gun from fully opening. |
Set/RstShot Pin Dly | This item defines the delay time between the set and the reset of a set/reset gun. The default is 0 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. |
Set/Rst Set Delay | This item defines the length of delay time for the gun to clear the shot pin when closing from full open. |
Set/Rst ResetDelay | This item defines the delay time for the gun to close when the backup is already closed. The default is 0 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. |
Quick Close Backup | This item defines whether a quick close backup gun is used. This allows an assignment of an output for a special low pressure valve. |
Backup valve config | This item defines if your backup valve output needs to be held high to close the backup, or if the output is a PULSE type. |
Backup pulse width | This item defines the pulse width when your Backup valve config is set to PULSE. |
Rst Water Saver Time-Out | This item defines the timeout value used when resetting the water saver. |
Pulse Length | This item defines the pulse length for the reset water saver output. |
Dly before checking DI | This item defines the delay time between when the pulsing of the reset water saver output is completed and when the reset water saver input is checked. The default is 1000 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. reset water saver input is checked. The default is 1000 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. |
Backup Open Detect | This item defines whether a backup open detect is used. This is a limit or proximity sensor mounted on the gun to determine if the gun is in the backup open position. The default is Disabled. |
BUClose/Gun Open Detect | This item defines whether a backup close/ gun open detect is used. This is a limit or proximity sensor mounted on the gun to determine if the gun is in the backup closed/gun open position. The default is Disabled. |
Close gun immediately | This item allows you to skip checking of the backup closed input if both a backup closed input and gun closed input are configured, and you are closing from full open to full close. This will help save cycle time, so the default is ENABLED. In a few guns, the bottom shank pivots for the backup stroke. For this type of gun, you should set this item to DISABLED. |
Gun Close Detect | This item defines whether a gun close detect is used. This allows an assignment of an input for the use of a limit or proximity switch. The default is Disabled. |
WeldCtrler Num for Gun | This item defines the number of the weld controller used for the current gun. The default is 1 and the range is 1 to 10. |
Current Weld Controller | This item defines the current weld controller for the remaining menu items. The default is 1 and the range is 1 to 10. |
Isolation Contactors | This item defines whether the robot is responsible for opening or closing the weld controller iso contactor. The default is Disabled. |
Contactor Time-Out | This item defines the time-out value for the isolation contactor input to be made after the output is fired. |
End of Weld Type | This item defines how SpotTool+ determines when a weld is complete. The values can be: CMP_ONLY which is used when only weld complete is mapped from the weld controller; INP_ONLY, which is used for weld in process only (in this case, weld complete will be triggered when weld in process transitions from High to low), and INP & COMP (default), which is used for both in process and comp. |
Weld in Process Time-Out | This item defines the timeout value for the weld in process input to be received after initiating the weld controller. The default is 2000 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. |
Weld Complete Time-Out | This item defines the timeout value for the weld complete input to be received after initiating the weld controller. The default is 2000 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. |
Major Alarm Polarity | This item defines whether a major alarm signal is ACT_HIGH (high = alarm, low = OK), or ACT_LOW (default; low=alarm, high = OK). |
Minor Alarm Polarity | This item defines whether a minor alarm signal is ACT_HIGH (high = alarm, low = OK), or ACT_LOW (default; low=alarm, high = OK). |
Rst Weld Cntrler Time-Out | This item defines the time-out value for the RESET WELD CONTROLLER instruction. The default is 2000 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. |
Rst Weld Cntler Pulse | This item defines the pulse length for the reset weld controller output. The default is 250 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. |
Reset stepper pulse |
This item defines the pulse length for the RESET STEPPER instruction. The default is 500 ms and the range is 0 ms to 32766 ms. |
Weld Comp Level Detect | This item defines if the robot will require a rising edge transition to detect weld complete, or if just the DIN[weld complete] being on is enough to signal weld complete. The default is FALSE which means the rising edge transition is required. |
Send schedule early | This item defines if the weld schedule and schedule strobe are sent to the weld controller on the robot anticipation time. The default is FALSE, but some weld controllers may not like receiving the weld schedule and weld init at the same time, so enabling this item can provide some buffer between when the weld schedule and weld initiate are sent to the weld controller. |
Reset WC with Robot | This item defines whether a reset is sent to the weld controller whenever the robot is issued a reset. |
Controls Weld Pressure | This item defines whether the current weld controller will control the weld pressure. For this to work, your weld controller's software must support this item. The robot will then read a binary pressure for each weld schedule from the weld controller and store it in the robot. The robot will then set the stored weld pressure for the correct schedule when that schedule is executed. The weld pressure for each schedule will get updated and stored on the robot after a weld schedule is executed, before a manual weld, or by initiating an "Update Pressure" from the SoftPanel. |
Weldpres time-out | This item defines how long the robot will wait for the pressure from the weld controller before timing out and posting an error. |
Weld pres time-fac | This item defines how long the robot will wait between sending the update pressure request for each schedule. |
Contactor control type | This item defines how the Weld controller's Isolation contactor can be controlled if your weld controller's contactor can be controlled by the robot. The choices are:
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Weld ID: |
ENABLED/DISABLED This item defines if the Weld ID feature (WID) is used and displayed within the SPOT instruction. When this item is enabled, the WID field will be displayed within the SPOT[…] instruction. When WID is displayed, you can map a group output (on the weld interface outputs menu) to the weld controller. During SPOT execution, the value of this WID field will be sent to the weld controller over the gout. This feature is required to be enabled when using the Process Logger option (R758). When using Process Logger, the WID field is defined and used as the Process ID. |