SQ,
Would in not be better to have the control monitor the flushing and determin on its own when to change the EPACK value instead of relying on the operator to do this based on visual conditions ?
I think the upper and lower flow meters are a big clue here. Can you describe how these function. Are they connected to analog inputs on the motion card ?
If these are then you could monitor them with a TIMER file and based on the flushing (high or low pressure) you can build in some of your own knowlegde based machining stratagies to set the new EPACK value. This would be a series of IF THEN statements in the TIMER file.
I think the
VB example is probably a good idea if you need to have the operator input values during machining. All examples and suggestions given in this thread seem pretty flexible to me.
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