Power PMAC
Discussions about Power PMAC products (including UMAC Accessories, Power Brick products, Power Clipper, CK3x products, and more) along with their software, including Power PMAC IDE, NC16 HMI, and Power PMAC PDK.
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As of late 2020, the locations for the firmware and IDE have moved. Previous versions of both are still being kept on the Delta Tau website, available through the for firmware (forums account required) and the Software Center Updates page for software. However, the distribution methods for each have changed for future versions.http://forums.deltatau.com/filedepot/ [FILE REMOVED] Future versions of the IDE are available instead from the Omron Industrial Automation website: https://automation.omron.com/en/us/products/family/PMAC%20IDE Future versions of firmware can typically be distributed directly to customers through Omron Distributors rather than being available …
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In some cases customers may not be able to connect to Power PMAC ARM through the USB-Serial UART Diagnostic Port over a Micro-USB cable. In this case, after pressing the button to put the port into serial mode, the CPU appears in the device manager as "FX230X Basic UART" instead of receiving a COM port. To fix this issue, install the appropriate version of this driver. (Windows 32 or 64 bit) https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm
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I thought that posting the excerpt (attached) from the Power PMAC Training Slides, "Talking to Power PMAC," might be helpful here as a quick reference covering most questions regarding communicating with Power PMAC. For the rest of the training slides please visit and click Power PMAC-->Training Slides.http://forums.deltatau.com/filedepot/ [FILE REMOVED] Talking to Power PMAC 2012-02.pdf
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Attached to this post is a list of Power PMAC parameters equivalent (or almost equivalent) to Turbo PMAC's I-Variables.Power PMAC Turbo I-Variable Equivalents 2014-01.pdf
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The Power PMAC training slides contain useful examples covering many of the Power PMAC's new features. The following link takes you to FileDepot, so after clicking the link, click "Power PMAC" and then "Training Slides." http://forums.deltatau.com/filedepot [FILE REMOVED]
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This post contains the Power PMAC software reference and user manual. Note these files are updated frequently. http://forums.deltatau.com/filedepot [FILE REMOVED]
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Hi, we have an PowerBrickLV - ARM 8 axis which I would liek to configure. I'm able to connect and to edit network settings as basic system settings via the system nodes in the IDE (clock settings etc). After that I was checking the hardware it found and there are two ACC-84B and two Power Brick, one for four axis I guess. Next I like to add a motor. That kind of works, so I choose a topology. I tried them all, in my case direct microstepping (No Feedback) is what I would like to have. And than it can't open the motor nodes. It throws the error "One of the identified items was in an invalid format.". I tried different versions of the IDE, currently I'm running the 4.6…
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I want to use the fast knife in the coordinate system, but my program changes the F-number and can't change the frequency of the fast knife, what parameter limits the? I feel like I need the help of the big guys
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Hi folks, I'm stuck with an old machine application that can't be installed on a higher OS than WinXP32 due to an issue with the security dongle. I'm running the application inside a VM on Win10. The problem is that when I try to install the IDE on XP, the installation halts saying that Internet Explorer 10 or higher is required, WinXP can only go to version 8. Is there a way around this problem? Thanks for any help you can offer. Bryan
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I need to support comm over multiple (2-3?) old school RS232 serial ports on CK3M processor. I see a 10-year old app note "Serial comm on PowerPmac" but, nothing up to date. Has anyone successfully implemented this lately ? I am considering both USB hub with multiple serial/usb adapters or perhaps a network type adapter like those made by Lantronix and others. Any advice or comments ? This application only needs modest bandwidth, communicating with some peripherals. C- libraries seem able to do the job...but, today maybe PYSerial or ??? -thanks in advance
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I'd like to have a shorthand way to look at the bits in SerialEncDataB, for example looking at the CRC bit etc. I thought something like this might work, but it doesn't seem to. Is there a good way to do this without having to do all of the bit shifting in a PLC? #define LENC1CRC Acc84E[0].Chan[0].SerialEncDataB.22.1
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such as this, X12.293460Z0.171288S50.123 X12.293463Z0.171177S50.234 X12.293466Z0.171052S50.456 X12.293470Z0.170915S50.678 X12.293474Z0.170765S50.789 X12.293479Z0.170602S51.123 X12.293484Z0.170426S52.123 X12.293490Z0.170237S53.123
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My machine setup is a CNC Milling machine with CK3E Motion controller and the machine will mainly run with CAM generated NC codes with high-block rate. I'm currently testing several features that the controller provides for more accurate machined results, and I faced a somewhat mysterious error code "Coord[x].LinToPvtError" while I'm testing "SegLinToPvt" mode. I've searched through manuals and forums but there was not so much about this error except just simple information like "Error in automatic linear-to-PVT-mode conversion". To be more precise, I've successfully milled several models with the feature turned on without any problem, but one specific NC…
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I am using powerPMAC IDE 4.4.1.7. When I try to open a project while PowerPmac is connected the IDE gets stuck at Loading solution projects. The output says "Please wait comparing the project Robots.ppproj to the active project (IP Address 195.0.1.1) in the PowerPMAC." This only happens on the IDE on my laptop. I can get through this load step on my other PC with the same Power PMAC PC. What should I need to do on my laptop to get through this initial loading step?
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I've declared some pointer arrays in script like this: It compiles...and works as expected...but, surely there must be a more compact/elegant way to get the same result? And, why is the editor complaining with the red squiggles ?? The SRM has the example: ptr FirstIoCardReg(8)->u.io:$A00000.8.8+ But, I couldn't get that kind of syntax to work..... Am I missing something??
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My issue is as follows: I have written a background C application...tested it with an SSH terminal session (so I can easily view printf output) 'Works fine... I build and download the entire project and add a watch window with some variables that the C prog has access to, so I can see the application is running. I can now start the application from the task manager...and see the variables update, so I know the program has started. I can also stop via the task manager...and the program stops. But, I cannot seem to start the program from a plc or online command. I've tried the example from the manual: system "/var/ftp/usrflash/Project/C\ Language/Ba…
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L.S., I'm having an issue where after some period of time (often multiple hours) I get an EtherCAT error, i.e., ECAT[0].Error=$1000a. I can't seem to find any documentation on what this error means. I have seen Acontis errors show op in ECAT[i].Error, and a list of those is in the IDE manual, but this value is not amongst those. Can anyone provide me with a clue as to what this error means and/or provide any pointers on how to fix this issue? My setup: CK3E with firmware 2.7.1.0, IDE 4.6.1.12, 2x KEBA ServoOne three-axis drives in CSP mode @ 1 kHz, several Beckhoff I/O terminals and an EL6601 Beckhoff Ethernet terminal.
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Hi all, I am trying to configure a Hilscher NT151 (Ecat slave to Ecat master) to split a previously single ethercat network. While doing some tests, I succeed in almost all taks, the networks operate correctly but I am not able to properly configure the PDOs on the PMAC side. While on the Hislcher side I have a correctly structured process image, on the PMAC side I just have a byte array (and can't even edit the data type to match the secondary mapping) On the Sycon.net software I can export different config files, but none of them is accepted by the IDE (as done with ESD ECX-EC where the configurator generates an ESI file that is imported …
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I am curious about dealing with machine setup data that needs to be static for a given machine, but still allows technicians to change very infrequently from machine to machine, site to site. I know about how "fsave" variables effectively give Non-Volatile memory locations ...but, I don't really trust it ...or like the idea of casual users having programmatic access to the machine. 'Curious if any experienced users on this forum have come up their own way of dealing with this and what the strengths and weaknesses of alternative methods might be. Thanks in advance...
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If I don't use a lead screw, can a direct compensation linear motor use this to compensate?
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Hello.. This is regarding the enabling the TELNET in the CK5M CPU, we have a standard procedure for enabling the TELNET in CK3M CPU. In CK3M the following files are availably in the directory 1. etc 2. etherlab 3. ppmac 4. System Volume Information 5. user In CK5M only the following files are available 1. etc 2. etherlab Attached Images FYR! kindly let us know how to add this files in CK5M.
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Has anyone ran into this before? In turbo we had no issue downloading programs with this many labels but Power is telling us we cannot???
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It would be useful to be able to use 2’s complement math in Script. But, I noticed the following oddity: Sys.Udata[0]++ // doesn’t rollover… it saturates instead but, Sys.Idata[0]++ // does rollover and Sys.CData[0]++ //does rollover To wrap my head around this… I created the following watch window: I would have expected the unsigned data to be the one that rolls over. 'Curious. Can we rely on this rollover behavior not to change in future firmware ?? I haven't tried it yet..but I wonder if this behaviour is the same when using C routines instead of script. If you want to try out for yourself, I…
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Is anyone else seeing a CPU leak when using the Power PMAC IDE versions 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 Motor Definition screens? I seem to be able to trigger the issue everytime I go into the new Motor Definition screen's Commission screen and then open up the Advanced section and pick any category in the drop-down except for the original Addressing. As soon as you do this, the CPU seems to go into some kind of infinite loop behavior and the IDE will jump from using 5-15% of my CPU to about 25-35%. Then, each time, you pick a new category from the dropdown, CPU usage will jump by another 25% until it is using 95-99% of my CPU in the task manager and then continue with that behav…
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Hello. I'm Using Wineows 10 Visual Studio 2019. I Used PMac IDE 4.4.1.7 I Upgrade PMac IDE to 4.6.3.6. i Uninstalled PMac IDE 4.4.1.7 and Setup 4.6.3.6 as Admin. After then. i can't open project files (Solution files) I Used with PMac IDE 4.4.1.7 Actualy, It Opened but in Solution Explorer, i can see only (incompatible) The application is not installed. So I tried to make new project. but it failed. the message is "C:\~~\ppproj cannot be opened because it's project type(ppproj)is not supported by this version of the application. To open it. please use a version that supports th…
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