WANTED: Software for Unimation Puma 560 robot.

[talla]

Hello everybody,

I am Peter and I come from Germany. I have a Puma 500 with a Unival control.

As far as I got everything to run. But an error message is still pending. So I can not perform calibration.

cal
*BATRAM not initialized*



What does "BATRAM" mean?


Maybe someone still has the files from the system or manuals from the parameterization and the commands.

I hope for an answer despite the long time.

-Peter







POWERUP DIAGNOSTIC IN PROGRESS


Testing internal S.C.M. RAM....Passed
Testing the Bank...............Passed
Testing the Timer..............Passed
Initialize S.C.C. Bit Bus......Passed
Initialize S.C.C. Network......Passed
Configure the System...........Passed
Testing expansion memory.......Passed
WARNING hardware configuration has been altered !!!



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UNIMATION VAL-II Copyright (c) 1986 by Unimation, Inc.
Initialize (Y/N)? y
Are you sure (Y/N)? y

Batram not initialized.
TMS servo gains obtained from EPROM.
TP servo gains obtained from EPROM.
VAL-II 560c.4.3A P/N W231.162.02 27-Aug-1991 271Kw
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cal
*BATRAM not initialized*

 

[amona]

In honour of throw back Thursdays how about a good old fashioned Dead Thread Revival!

Because I have a Puma 560 robot arm with a dead controller that I would really like to see move again. The only pinouts I can find seem to be missing several wires and it is hard to line all the colour coding in my pinouts with the 5-7 blue wires I do have.

I have found that if I apply voltage to the white/purple wires I can get the three small motors to turn, I am pretty sure if I did the same on the three big motors I would just get noise and smoke because the brakes are on. Looking to see if anyone is still on here that has some info on what does what in this arm so I can bypass the controller and replace it with something I can work on.

Any help or hints or anything would indeed be greatly appreciated.

 

[smaartin]

I'll second for the thread revival, as I just obtained a Puma 260A. I still need a VAL II manual. I downloaded Jerry's, but it's VAL and doesn't include the disk commands. I need to know how to backup the VAL II floppy. Also looking for the calibration software.

Amona, which controller do you have? If it's a Mark II, I may be able to help.

Steve