ok trying to understand and help here..Gary Campbell wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:34 pmI am asking for no change in the action of the button, it works fine. What I am asking for is to have the visible button show as "Tripped" when any fault or estop has toggled off the no fault output. Like it used to. Didn't cycling the estop used to trip and clear the reset also? I like that idea more than a screen button.cncsnw wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:47 pmNo, not at all.reading marc's comments i thought he was asking for a virtual estop button which osha isn't going to like.
I was suggesting that the appearance of the VCP reset button could change, depending on whether the actual emergency stop button was pressed.
This would make it more obvious to the operator that the machine is in a stop condition that cannot be cleared using the VCP reset button.
I think Gary is suggesting something a little different: to also have the appearance of the VCP reset button change to show when any other fault is present (e.g. faults that can be reset using the VCP button).
After a few test runs, there are 3 states "normal", "tripped" and one that looks normal, but requires two presses. One to trip and one to reset. This occurs after any estop or fault that has been rectified and confuses the hell out of new users as the button looks like it is in the normal state.
1.) cycling the estop does clear the reset button, (maybe its your C86 board hijacking things?) but, not the other way around.
2.) yes, you can create a vcp button that would be a catch all fault indicator. so if drive fault and/or spindle fault input is made then the vcp graphic would indicate as such.
3.) only cycling Estop will cycle: "DriveReset" , "VFD reset" outputs (unless you edit the plc program to do what you want)