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5226; New Error Message Axis Move Direction Mismatch
Pathfinder

Changes made for Pathfinder 5226 controllers.

To move an axis with the 5226 controller the run task first sets up a moves for all axes for what the operation needs at that given time. Once everything is set up axes are allowed to move as long as there is no conflict with any axis at a given time. A problem that can arise from this is that all of the movement of the other axes could affect the position of an axis that hasn't moved yet through drift or jerkiness. In some extreme cases this could have moved an axis to be on the other side of the target and the direction it was supposed to move has changed by the time it is allowed to move.

To solution to this problem was to re-check the direction the axis thinks it is supposed to move based on the target against the direction the axis thought it was going to start moving when the move was set up by the run task. If there is a mis-match the machine will be halted with the error message 360 Axis Move Direction Mismatch. This error will also catch cases where something happened to the axis feedback or if the clamp offset based on radius adjust position feature created a problem.

Model Version Released
5226BB 4.02.09 3/5/2020