When an Axis Will Not Enable: the Six Gates MSO Has to Pass Before Anything Moves The MSO rung goes true on a 2198-D032-ERS3 axis, MSO_1.EN sets, and then nothing happens: no .DN, no .ER, no error code to look up, and the machine sits there. Axis_01.AxisState reads 5. Five is Inhibited, and a start … Read more
Driving a Motor from a ControlLogix: From a Rung to a Turning Shaft on a Kinetix 5700 A 2198-D032-ERS3 inverter, a VPL-B1303C motor on one Hiperface DSL cable, and a 1756-L83E that has never carried a motion group. Two rungs will turn that shaft — an MSO and then an MAM — and neither is … Read more
MSO, MSF and MASD on a Logix Axis: Enabling It, Dropping It, and the One That Opens the OK Contact An MSO against a 2198-D032-ERS4 axis sets ServoActionStatus and DriveEnableStatus, and it does not set its own .DN bit in the scan that fired it. On a 2 ms coarse update period the drive answers … Read more