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5226; New Options for Pausing a Shear During a Move
Pathfinder

Chnages made for Pathfinder 5226 controllers.

Some folding machines come with a shear/slitter used for cutting their material into the length they want for the part they are going to make. If you are doing a shear operation in Pathfinder there are 2 options on how the shear will make its target. The user can either hold the pedal the entire time in a maintain state or just press the pedal and let the entire operation finish without inturruption. In the maintain state you can let go of the pedal and the shear will stop. Pressing the pedal again will continue the operation. In the other scenario the shear will not stop unless there is an e-stop or it finished the operation. It seems necessary that this should not be the case and there should be some way to pause.

The solution was to create options on how to pause in the non-maintain mode. The user can now press the pedal that started the shear movement or they can press the clamp up pedal if the machine has that input wired into the machine. Once paused pressing the pedal that started the shear movement at the beginning will make the shear start moving again.

Model Version Released
5226BB Rev G. 5.00.07 7/19/2023