Update - Conveyor Motor (eCatalog 4.8)

New features to Conveyor motor in VC 4.8

The status and their color indications:

Black - off
Yellow - Idle
Green - Running
Red - Fault
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PowerOn signal is renamed to RunForward
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New properties and signals

PowerOn

  • True == turn power ON (State → “Idle” ! )
  • False == shut the motor OFF (State → “Off” )

Fault (Read-only)

  • Defines if the motor is broken or not

ConveyorType (Read-only)

  • Defines whether the motor is connected to a One-way or Two-way conveyor.

State (Read-only)

  • Defines if the motor is in Running, Idle, Fault of Off state.

PresetSpeed1

  • Defines the TargetSpeed value when “SetPresetSpeed1” signal is triggered True PresetSpeed2
  • Defines the TargetSpeed value when “SetPresetSpeed2” signal is triggered True

Failures::

MTBF

  • Defines the Mean Time Between Failures in seconds.

MTTR

  • Defines the Mean Time To Repair in seconds. AutomaticRepair
  • If Enabled, the motor goes automatically to Idle from Fault state after MTTR time.

ExternalFault signal

  • triggers the motor to go to Fault state (Fault == True)

FaultReset signal

  • Resets Fault and changes the state to Idle

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