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Mazak T plus PLC Signal Screen. What is SP?

clutch

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Feb 12, 2006
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Northern LP of Michigan
I've spent way too much time on this machine but I learned a lot. It is an older multiplex with a M5xx control. After replacing the spindle drive I thought I was home free. Head one runs fine. Head two homes, jogs, spindle spins. You press cycle start with a part in the chuck, nothing happens. No alarms nothing. Acts like an angry wife. Yes the cycle start button is working along with the feed hold button on the panel.

Just before I left for the day I went to the PLC Signals screen and flipped from HD1 to HD2. SP is 1 or 0 depending on which head the switch is on. What is SP?

Thank you,

Clutch
 
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Replying to my own post.

SP seems to mean Start Pause, AKA Feed Hold.

I dug though the ladder and found an input missing. All the feed hold signals are NC so the absence of a signal will put the head 2 into feed hold. Seems logical. This machine once had a light curtain on the right side door that was part of a loading or unloading system.

Machine is running fine now. :t
 








 
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