RE: CAN bus -- Interview question

Not sure I understand your question.  The Link you provided clearly states
the reason for the pull cord along a conveyor belt.  Since it's an ESTOP
the CAN bus has nothing to do with it other than perhaps reporting via a
second switch inside the box that the ESTOP was activated.

What to do with the ESTOP comes up often in the home hobby or small
business CNC groups all the time.  There's a big red button on the PC user
screen marked stop and it's attached via a port pin to a physical button
or some other sort of switch.  Once active this big red soft button starts
flashing the CNC software will no longer issues stepping pulses or provide
control outputs.

But it's not an ESTOP even though it looks like one.  Intrinsically safe
systems remove power to all life threatening equipment when pressed.  So
AC power vanishes since the AC is dangerous.  The AC also moves the
conveyor belt and with it removed the belt stops.  Motors stop.  That
operator being electrocuted by a frayed wire no longer is frozen by the
current to the wire and drops away.

There are arguments that if the power is removed that then the machine
cannot be manually operated to help remove someone pinned by the machine.
This is true.  But that is an after the event activity to be dealt with by
emergency response people.  They may well restart the system in a manual
override mode that lets them then reverse motors slowly etc.

But an ESTOP should initially remove all power.  Lately though I believe
PCs and user interfaces are being exempted by that rule and only power to
motion gear is physically removed.

Let the counter arguments begin.  <GRIN>

John Dammeyer



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katoch
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 3:46 AM
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Subject: [CANLIST] CAN bus -- Interview question


Hi,

There were few question which i was not able to answer in an interview
today.
One of them i will like to ask on list :---

What is the use of this Pull cord switches on Conveyor belt ?
What role CAN bus plays it may be the field bus to transfer event to stop
the belt power supply, is it right ?

http://www.martin-eng.com/resources/blog/emergency-stop-switches


thanks & regards,

katoch