Servo Fault Monitor

[fabman]

  I am new to brains so forgive my ignorance. I am looking to monitor my servos and output a message as to which axis faulted and stop the system if it should fault out. When i come to my termination I assume i would Send String for my message, I want to display this in the staus line but I dont know the register. Is there any documentation available?I have already watched the videos.

                                                                                                                       

[poppabear]

You cant send messages to MACH with the send string, it is only to send strings out to Modbus devices.

BUT, What I did with mine is I used Modbus to interface a PLC with my Servo Drives, and when they fault the fault code is sent to Mach, and the Drive axis. Thus the Macro pump monitors the code, and scrolls the message of the fault in mach.

scott

[fabman]

Thanks Scott thats a great way to expand I/O and in hindsight would have been cheaper than the upgrade to the Grex.

 So is there anyway to send a message to the status line with a brain?

[poppabear]

no, not from Brain directly.