Alarm 003 to many digits on Hardinge with 18-T

[HBFixedGear]

My control keeps getting stuck at the following line:

G0 X.3096 Z1. (RAPID TO 1 INCH FROM FACE)

When it stops here I get a "003 TOO MANY DIGITS" alarm. According to the alarm code list this means I have entered too many digits. Very helpful. Anyone run into this before?

Bob J

[dcoupar]

Please post some more code. 5 blocks either side should do.

[muddobber76]

Yea there is nothing wrong with that line, more than likely it is one or a few lines after, as most all modern controls read a few to several lines of code ahead of the one being executed.

[sinha_nsit]

TOO MANY DIGITS: In direct input (i.e., not through calculations), you cannot use more than eight digits, including zeroes.

[HBFixedGear]

Apologies for the tardy reply. I was out for a couple of days and by the time I returned an operator had butchered the program so badly the alarm problem became moot. It seems that leaving the edit key in is a license to kill. After rewriting the program I didn't have the issue so I am assuming it was either an input error or one of my descriptions was to long. Either way it is a phantom until it occurs again. Thank you for your suggestions and responses.

Bob J

[The Engine Guy]

Apologies for the tardy reply. I was out for a couple of days and by the time I returned an operator had butchered the program so badly the alarm problem became moot. It seems that leaving the edit key in is a license to kill. After rewriting the program I didn't have the issue so I am assuming it was either an input error or one of my descriptions was to long. Either way it is a phantom until it occurs again. Thank you for your suggestions and responses.

Bob J

Hi Bob J

Possible you had the program line numbers going above the 9999 that is the usual Fanuc default amount, if for example you have a program where you set the numbers to go in increments of say 10 to allow for editing at the machine it is easy to end up with numbers that go above the 9999 limit and that will bring up the P/S 003 alarm.

Could be when you re-wrote the program you set the line number increments to a smaller amount so didn`t hit the magic 9999!!

Regards
Rob

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