Changes made for Pathfinder 5226 controllers.

The magnetic memory on a 5226 board is used to save things like reference state and encoder counts when the controller is powered down. One fault with this is that if the wrong machine type was chosen with an incremental encoder it will save the state of needing to be referenced. If the correct type is chosen later without an incremental encoder that machine type has no way of getting the needs referencing state to clear.

The solution was to clear the referencing state at startup if the axis does not have an incremental encoder.

Changes made for Pathfinder 5226 controllers.

The Jorns Twinmatic has and additional alternate gripper to go along with its regular sheet gripper. This alternate gripper is usually used to grip over material that is not lying flat to grip onto. In Pathfinder you can change the gripper mode to use this gripper in any step. In the 5226 the controller will see it’s an alternate gripper step and check if the last step was not an alternate gripper step. This informs the controller the part needs to be released for the switch to the new gripper. A bug was created sometime after testing where it seems extra code was inserted by accident causing the controller to just continue on with the regular gripper. This has been fixed.

Changes made for Pathfinder 5226 controllers.

The Jorns double folder machines Eco and Pro have 4 positions for the backstop that can be reached through 2 outputs controlled by the 5226. These positions can be reached by selecting the position in the part step. The problem is that once out of automatic the backstop position will stay in place. This can cause confusion if the user is trying to modify the offset of the backgauge since it is not the zero point of the backstop.

The fix was to have the gripper backstops return to the zero point if not in automatic.