Micromill interfaced with Pagasus Robot

[rbclark]

Hello, This is my first post.
I have a Micromill 2000 interfaced with an AMATROL Pegasus robot.
I am working to put the system back in working condition.
The students have pulled the wires that interface to the front pannel of the robot controlled.
There is a pneumatic cylnder configured to feed blank parts and the robot insert blanks and remove milled parts.
Does anybody have a system with this configuration?
If so I really need the wiring configuration for the 2 wires that to to the controller input,
and the 10 wires that come from the controller output.

Pic 2 is the robot and mill
Pic 1 is the modified electronics of the mill.

Thanks

[rbclark]

Hooray!
I got the system running.
I traced down the extra interface connections and found they were integrated into the E-Stop and various "STOP" functions.
They all were normally open so when I removed the external plug going to the robot controller the mill completely responds to VR Milling.

[bradders]

I'm glad you are now back up and running

[rbclark]

Maybe you can assist with this.

Only occasionally can I get the lubrication on to work.
It is attached to a pneumatic cylinder and the standard M command works some of the time.
Is it disabled and locked out by some command that stays active even when running different programs?

Randy

[Denford Admin]

I didn't think there was any lubrication system on these machines...maybe you mean there is an oil bottle for the compressed air system which opens/closes the vice?

There where two ways of making the vice work - one was to allow a robot output going to a Micromill input to say whether the vice should be open or closed - this needed setting in VR Milling in parameters under Input/output devices and "remote control vice"
Otherwise, mcodes M10 and M11 should open and close the vice

[rbclark]

Thanks for the reply.
The lubrication that I mentioned is actually an air supply solenoid that controls the air flow to blow chips away from the cutting area instead of delivering Lubricant.
The vice works OK either by direct M control or through the remote "robot controller" interface.