Originally Posted by
camaro_dan67
I have a kiwa with the 3m control and I had a very similar problem. One day out of the blue the tool carousel would just go round and round and never stop. I found that the board that the tool changer encoder plugged into was not giving power to the encoder. It turned out to be a voltage regulator on that board. I replaced the voltage regulator then the encoder worked again but the tool number was wrong. I contacted Kiwa in Japan and they told me which parameter on the diagnose screen should be changing as the carousel rotates. The DGNOS parameter that shows this on mine is number 20. It is probably different on yours.
I went through a mess trying to get the tool number and the correct tool in the carousel to match. Mine used binary that was specific to that encoder so i had to figure out which binary number matched the tool number. And no on mine the actual binary number didn't match the tool number. What I ended up doing was rotating the encoder a little at a time until the commanded tool matched the carousel. Hope this helps some. Dan