hannsx Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Hi I wanted to share my Problems and Solutions to make them findable and help other people to find solutions to their Problems. I am currently doing my obligatory internship as at a research facility in Germany. Here I have been given the Task to take make a PowerBrickLV work. I used a Brushless Motor without any Limit switches, just for getting to know the Powerbrick. Problem: AmpFault when trying to run the tests and in the system setup menu. Source: Sys.pAbortAll, a global safety switch is set true at default. Solution: Type Sys.pAbortAll = 0 into Terminal. Unfortunately, when I started reading the manuals my supervisors afvised me to watch the online tutorials instead, as it would take forever to read the manual. In the Tutorials is no mentioning of this global fault switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clopedandle Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 I suggest you run the System Setup utility and set the system up from scratch. Assuming everything is wired correctly, you should be able to finish the setup and jog your motor within 30 minutes. For detailed instructions on using the System Setup utility (in the IDE, click Delta Tau-->Tools-->System Setup), download the Power PMAC IDE manual from FileDepot: http://forums.deltatau.com/filedepot/download.php?f=Power%20PMAC/Manuals/Power%20PMAC%20IDE.pdf [FILE REMOVED] System Setup starts on page 22. This is likely a much faster approach than watching the online tutorials. It would also be smart to get the Power Brick LV manual. If you want to set up the motor manually, start on page 110 and follow the instructions until page 154. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve.milici Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 My setup preference is the Power Brick LV manual as it provides some Power PMAC "education" along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannsx Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 Hi, I am sorry I didn't respond earlier. I assumed I would see some kind of notification and I didn't explore my user account until now. My prefered way of getting motors konfigurated is now to start with the PowerBrickLV Hardware Refernce Manual, get the Info on the direction of commutation from the setup program and then tuning the motor. Additionally I often look into the User's Manual for further Information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Hotchkiss Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 The PowerBrick line has extra safety features (which it seems everyone learns about the hard way). The video lectures on youtube are from our class that is taught with UMAC systems, so the Abort All feature is rarely discussed. I would definitely recommend the PowerBrick LV manual. It is best to start at the beginning of Manual Motor setup to cover Abort All, the power on reset PLC and data unpacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannsx Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 I think so now too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisb Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 If your are not using amplifier fault bits, try disabling them: Motor[1].pAmpFault = 0 Motor[2].pAmpFault = 0 Motor[3].pAmpFault = 0 Motor[4].pAmpFault = 0 ….. -Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannsx Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 Hi Chris, thanks for your reply - I have solved the problem as mentioned in my first post. I realize that it would have been better to emphasize in the header that the problem is solved - I'll try to change that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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