Local versus Remote RS232 & Ethernet Comms
We have two Mori Seikis at work with MSX501 controls and MAPPS, they are configured to to talk to the "local" RS232, I cannot figure out how to get them to talk to the remote RS232, the one(s) that are in the control cabinet. I have figured out how to get to the parameter settings that familiar to me in the Fanuc controls. I don't know which Fanuc controls these are, I have asked our Mori dealer (Ellison) and they did not know. The connector in the operator pendant that the "local" RS232 is connected to is labeled CN4 on the Fanuc (display) module, it is also near an Ethernet port that I am able to configure and ping... more on that later. The "remote" port is wired to our program transfer system, but it doesn't work presently and no one remembers for sure if it ever did.
In the MAPPS screen for I/O config I can see a menu choice for RS232 (which is the local port) and I can select and configure that one... also there are two ports listed under the RS232 filed, Port 1 is "active" and is the one that is currently working... Port 2 is not selectable. Next to the RS232 (local) is RS232 (Remote)... I cannot select it to configure. Next is Memory Card and finally Network (I think, perhaps it called Ethernet, I can't remember right now). I can select and use the Memory Card, I can select the Network, however, I am not sure if this Network is a Data Server option, I suspect it is, or it if is the Embedded Ethernet, which is standard. I do see in Settings some references to the Data Server.
OK, all that as a background to... I just don't know enough about the 'ports' and I/O channels in Fanuc to know what to try to get this working. In the control cabinet, on the main module, there are two RS232 ports, one of which has the standard Fanuc cable that converts to a DB25 connector, the second one is not connected. I will have to post back about how those are labeled.
I know there is some kind of delineation between program transfer and DNC, I want to just transfer programs, DNC is not something we do...
That same module has the standard Ethernet port that all of the "i" series Fanuc's seem to have. Whatever this module is, it seems to handle the I/O. Since this has an RS232 port cabled from the factory, I just have to believe that I should be able to use it for I/O. But, so far, I have not figured out how to activate it. Any ideas? Anyone really up on the I/O Channel & Port settings? What about Ethernet? Anyone using it for program transfer? We have JobPack at work but I can test it with Putty or TeraTerm...
Thanks in advance,
Gary
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