Fanuc 21iM read Sub Program from card (M198)

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Fanuc 21iM read Sub Program from card (M198)

Post by rasp » Sat 21 Mar , 2020 1:48 am

Hi,

I have a Triac with a Fanuc 21iM control with the PCMCIA card reader and I can load and save programs from it no problem. The control only has a very small memory 8K so I was wanting to run programs from the SRAM card I have (48MB) like on the machines at work. On those machines I just put a small program in the control and store the big program on the card e.g.

O0001;
M198 P1000;
M30;

When this is run it reads the program O1000 on the card line by line.

My problem is I can not get the Triac to do this it just skips the M198 and finishes with no alarms.

Any help on getting this to work would be much appreciated.

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Re: Fanuc 21iM read Sub Program from card (M198)

Post by SAW2020 » Tue 14 Apr , 2020 12:40 pm

I have the same control as you, I struggled with this as well for a bit - in the end I configured the control for DNC and now just drip feed in the programs from RS232 with easyDNC with M29 on the control.

Works a treat and got me going quite quickly and less frustrated trying to get the PCMCIA option to function 8)

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