Millport VMC1660 Centroid Upgrade (Leadshine EL7)

[KreiderMachine]

VFD Mode Switch is now functional, using two Aux Keys, macros calling m94/m95.

The code ended up being this:

IF SpindleVFMode_SV THEN SET VFD_Mode_O
IF !SpindleVFMode_SV THEN RST VFD_Mode_O

IF VFD_Mode_O THEN (Aux1LED_O)
IF !VFD_Mode_O THEN (Aux2LED_O)

[KreiderMachine]

Next issue: the machine has been booting up pretty frequently with the y-axis load bar solid red. If I try to jog, it gives a #410 y-axis position error.

Resetting the hickory sometimes clears it. (Restarting CNC12 does not) resetting the el7 does not seem to be required.

Any insights?

[centroid467]

Next issue: the machine has been booting up pretty frequently with the y-axis load bar solid red. If I try to jog, it gives a #410 y-axis position error.

Resetting the hickory sometimes clears it. (Restarting CNC12 does not) resetting the el7 does not seem to be required.

Any insights?

I vaguely remember seeing something like this before but do not remember if it was resolved or not. If we did have a fix, it would be in 5.30.




Does it stay stuck at red or clear itself over time? Cycling the E-stop (or VCP reset button) sometimes clears it?


Turn on the drives and Hickory, then wait several minutes before starting up CNC12. Does it occur then or only when there is a shorter interval between Hickory bringing the slaves up to Op mode (7 segment starts cycling, LED near the BBG lights up) and CNC12 opening?

[cnckeith]

what version of CNC12 is being used?
and yep i 2nd what 467 said, there were some Leadshine specific improvements made 'recently' and would be in latest version v5.30
https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... loads.html

[centroid467]

what version of CNC12 is being used?
and yep i 2nd what 467 said, there were some Leadshine specific improvements made 'recently' and would be in latest version v5.30
https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... loads.html

Keith, this machine is already on 5.30.



Hans, I'm gonna look into this one again. We have a machine here that runs EL7s and Hickory so I'm gonna find out if it ever showed up on that machine. It's a lot easier to investigate this kind of issue when we can directly observe it, after all.

[KreiderMachine]

Yes, it stays red when it boots red.

I do think it might be related to the boot timing, because when I have manually switched on the Hickory after a delay, I have never seen the failure (sample size of 3). It is possible that the times I have simply rebooted the hickory, and didn't see it change may have been the result of power cycling it too quickly.

This is still a guess, though, because it doesn't fail every time. I have had it fail multiple times in sequence, but today it booted with no issues and no forced delay for the hickory.

Cycling the estop does not clear it, no.

I'll explore more next time it fails.

[KreiderMachine]

Unrelated to the y-axis boot error:

After any probing maneuver or tool check, the jog speed defaults to 'slow.' Is there an easy way to change that, or is it part of each individual macro?

[KreiderMachine]

Keith,

Thanks for pointing me to those system macros. It was pretty straightforward from there.

Ok, I'm back on 5.30, and was able to copy over all the old parameters and plc settings. However, I do have a few new issues:

1: Is there a way to re-simplify the probing/TTO workflows? There are extra options in 5.30 that our operator doesn't want to have to click through each time. Specifically, we don't need the TTO option when probing the workpiece (probe used each time for this) and we don't need probe options when doing the tool touch-offs (TT1 used each time for this)

2: He proceeded to do his tool touchoffs before running a program as usual, using the probe to identify the workpiece z-height, and the TT-1 to set tool offsets. When he ran the program, it was about two inches above the workpiece.

3: When using the 'auto' Touch-off, the machine moves all the way to z-home and then sloooowly descends to the TT1. How can I skip this? He is used to just jogging it down close to the TT1 and then initiating the auto touch-off procedure.

while adding the extra steps in is annoying to the seasoned user the steps are helpful to newbies.
that being said the extra checks/steps in the macro(s) are editable by the integrator, so you can make the TTO workflow work what every way you want. its up to you. just edit the macro(s) to do want you want. https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... amming.pdf
user editable macros.png

[KreiderMachine]

On the old Centroid control, whenever we plugged the probe in we could probe a new work zero regardless of what tool was in the spindle.
Currently, we cannot do this without first doing a tool change to tool 10 (the carousel slot associated with the probe).

Without doing the tool change first, it seems to use the offset that corresponds to the tool in the spindle. I might be misunderstanding what's going on, but all I know is that it works right if you do the tool change first, and doesn't otherwise.

Any idea what's missing here? How do I make this work?

[cnckeith]

boot sequence.

thanks for the information on your boot sequence observations.
we are exploring this with a test mule machine.
please post another fresh report.zip so we have your latest settings and message logs.