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Configuring Properties |
On the Setup tab of this Driver's properties window, configure the Physical Layer option with the value Ethernet. On the Ethernet tab, the Transport option must be configured with the value TCP/IP and the Listen for connections for port option must be enabled and configured with the TCP/IP destination port of a device.
On the WeldingRobot tab, the Cache File option allows defining the path of a cache file, such as "C:\Panasonic.txt". This file may contain welding data still not transferred to Elipse E3, Elipse Power, or Elipse Water when an application is eventually stopped, allowing that, during a new initialization, this data is recovered.
In addition to this properties window, these settings can also be defined at run time in Elipse E3, Elipse Power, or Elipse Water applications. To do so, initialize this Driver in Offline mode, that is, execute an application with the Start driver OFFLINE option enabled, which is configured on the Setup tab of the properties window. The configuration options of this Driver are described on the next table.
Configuration options for Panasonic WeldingRobot Driver
Tab |
Parameter |
Offline String |
Data Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Setup |
Physical layer |
IO.Type |
Text |
Physical layer. The available options are None or Ethernet |
Time-out |
IO.TimeoutMs |
Number |
A time limit, in milliseconds, to receive data from a device's response. For example, the value 1000 defines a 1 (one) second limit |
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Ethernet |
Transport |
IO.Ethernet.Transport |
Text |
Transport protocol. The available options are TCP/IP (default) or UDP/IP |
Main IP |
IO.Ethernet.MainIP |
Text |
IP address of a device, in the format [0-255].[0-255].[0-255].[0-255] |
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Port |
IO.Ethernet.MainPort |
Number |
TCP/IP or UDP/IP port |
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WeldingRobot |
Enable protocol with checksum |
WeldingRobot.UseChecksum |
Number |
Enables or disables a protocol verification by checksum. Possible values are 0: Disabled or 1: Enabled |
All properties in Offline mode must be configured via PLC Tags in String format using the N1 parameter equal to -1 (minus one), the N2 parameter equal to 0 (zero), the N3 parameter equal to 0 (zero), and the N4 parameter equal to 3 (three). For more details and examples, please check topic Documentation of I/O Interfaces.