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5223,5225,5226; Bug Fix For First Part Only When Using Bending Beam Sensor
Pathfinder

Changes made for Pathfinder 5226 controllers.

The 5224 controller/Bending Beam Sensor is used to help calculate a spring back for a given material and angle. The user has a couple of options for when this test will happen to get the spring back for a step. They are All Parts Auto and First Part Only. All Parts Auto will get a new calculation for every bend on every part. First Part Auto will get a calculation for every bend, but then save that value and use it on every part after that depending on which bend it is. There seemed to be a bug with First Part Auto though because after the first part it would still perform a measurement on every part after the first one. Not only was it doing the measurement, the target angle seemed to be getting smaller and smaller processing through the parts.

The bug ended up being that once the first part has successfully gotten a good spring back for each bend of the part, once the new part is started the sensor was not being disabled. On top of that other variables were cleared which explains why it kept getting worse and worse. The fix was to make sure the bending beam sensor is disabled once the first part is done if Pathfinder has it set up for First Part Only.

Model Version Released
5226BB 4.03.04