Add Feed Hold Condition to tower light.

[krysdam]

Could you add Feed Hold as a condition that generates an output for the yellow Tower lamp. This would be in addition to Homing and Door Open conditions.

Thanks for your consideration.

 

[masso-support]

can you please explain the requirements for this? because it might confuse a machine operator looking from far why the yellow light is on.

 

[krysdam]

I'm not sure why he would be confused as he would have to put it into the feed hold condition. My logic on this is you have a green light for a running condition, a yellow for advisory conditions (feed hold, homing ) and red for errors that affect or stop normal operations. I actually don't have a light tower, I am using illuminated buttons for RUN and FEED HOLD.

 

[masso-support]

before we can look into changing the logic we must see whats the standard and then implement that, here is some info:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_light
  
• http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=58232
  
• https://www.automation.com/pdf_articles/StackLightEngineeringReferenceGuide.pdf
  

 

[krysdam]

Hi Guys,

After reviewing the links in the last post I find adding feed hold as a condition that would trigger an amber or yellow tower lamp output to be consistent with the majority findings.

Thanks for your consideration.

 

[masso-support]

thanks @krysdam and let's give some more time to this to get feedback from other users and then we can have the changes done.