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This troubleshooting guide is a test of GE Fanuc IC693CPU323, a ten slot rack with embedded CPU illustrated in the image above. It’s being powered by an IC693PWR330 power supply and its powered up and you should see this indicated by the power LED and the CPU.
If these LEDs are lit, everything should be okay according to this self-diagnostic. If you don’t have an okay light, it’s very likely that it’s a troubled processor, there’s something wrong with it, and you won’t be able to follow this test.
If you have the LED’s lit your goal then is to get the processor into run mode on its own with no other modules and to keep it in run mode.
In Proficy Machine Edition (see above) go ahead and select a new blank file and under main rack, under CPU on the drop down, if you double click on CPU or right click on CPU, you can replace the module. In this illustration we’ve replaced the default module with an IC693CPU323 and a PWR330 and you should do the same. You should see the same physical presentation as illustrated here is what you should have in the Proficy Machine Edition under your navigator bar.
Okay. So the next thing you’re going to do is click the lightning bolt icon which is on the top left corner and that’s the online/offline button. Get connected to the processor. Okay.
So now once that’s done you’re going to click the green handprint icon which is toggling it to online mode or program mode. Alright. So now that that’s done, you’re going to the top menu bar under target. Halfway down is online commands. When you click that, another window will open up and you want to select clear. So a clear memory will, will pop up and it’s going to ask you what you want to clear.
In this particular case, all you’re doing is just a simple “get the processor into run mode” test. So the only thing you want to clear are controller fault table and IO fault table. And select okay. Then, are you sure you want to continue with this? Yes. Don’t select anything else that you may lose something you have saved. Okay.
So once that’s done, you’re going to go and click the download and start active target button or F9 (see above). This is the download information icon with a play button. It’s going to say there’s a build in progress and it’s going to start to put together this blank configuration that you have here. And then it’s going to ask you – a window will pop open – what do you want to download to the controller?
In this particular case, just hardware configuration and logic. So the top two selections. You don’t want to initiate any forced values or write anything to flash memory. That’s not what you’re trying to do here. So you’re going to select “okay.”
Again, that’s just the top two selections – hardware configuration and logic. The build will continue to progress and then it’s going to ask you if you want to start the controller or outputs enabled. Yes or okay. Alright. Now if the processor is in good working condition, it will go under run mode as you see here. So the green LED next to run should come on as soon as you ask it to start the controller.
Now that you have the controller is in run mode, what you want to do, if this is a processor that you think could be troubled, let it run for a couple days, two or three days, maybe in a warm room, a hot environment. What you’re trying to do is to similate that it’s in a situation where it’s working and see if you can create a fault or a problem.
So if you come back after two or three days and it’s still in run mode and there is no faults or errors and everything is fine, you can assume the processor is in good working condition. If for some reason it jumps out of run mode or if it kicks itself out of run mode, what you would want to do is go to target again and then three quarters of the way down that window is diagnostics.
And when you click on diagnostics, your info viewer tab will become a fault table viewer and it will give you any errors or faults that the processor has had within the time that you’ve started it until the time that it may have kicked itself out of run mode.
So you’ll want to pay attention to what those errors are. Sometimes they’re understandable and sometimes they’re not understandable, ie: they’re technical information that’s difficult to interpret.
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