daves Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 While upgrading our UMAC project to PPMAC I have managed to translate most of the setup i-variables to the new structures. Some of them can be found by searching the help (e.g. i8 is found in the help under Sys.RtIntPeriod). Some of them can be worked out by seeing where they point in the terminal (e.g. i168-> tells me I168->Motor[1].Servo.Kfff so I can tell what it is called now). Some I think can be ignored (e.g. I48 deals with DPRAM which does not exist). However I feel like there are some I am guessing. Is there a definitive translation guide (especially the non-motor variables i1-99 which are now part of motor 0 so give no help in the terminal)? As a quick start could you tell me if these Turbo i-variables are needed and can be set up (I know what they are but don't know how to start looking if they have Power PMAC equivalents. I think i11 looks like the only important one): i1 i2 i6 i11 i52 i53 i68 Also during the translation I found we were using i14=1 with a comment about matching coordinate system on start. This is what i14 meant in PMAC, not Turbo so I think it slipped through that translation stage. Could there be any effect from this in UMAC or PPMAC? Cheers Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtwilson Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 These do not have direct equivalents: i1: Serial Port Mode -- not applicable, no serial port communications i2: Control Panel Port Activation -- not applicable, no control panel port i6: Error Reporting Mode -- not applicable, fixed reporting mode i11: Move Calculation Time -- not applicable, fixed at equivalent of i11=0 on Turbo i14 (non-Turbo): PMATCH on Start -- not applicable, always done on start in Turbo and Power PMAC i52: CPU Frequency Control -- not applicable, fixed by hardware i53: Auxiliary Serial Port Baud Rate Control -- not applicable, no auxiliary serial port i68: Coordinate System Activation Control -- Sys.MaxCoords provides same concept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daves Posted October 4, 2011 Author Share Posted October 4, 2011 That's great. Thank you very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omron Forums Support Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 For future reference, if you want to know how the Turbo I-Variables translate to Power PMAC Structures, you can refer to the following document: ftp://support.deltatau.com/DT-USA/Power%20PMAC%20Documentation/PDFs/Software%20Reference/Power%20PMAC%20turbo%20ivars%20to%20ppmac%20config%20vars.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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