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Environmental and Facility Requirements
Adept Cobra s350 User’s Guide, Rev. A 31
3.4 Environmental and Facility Requirements
The Adept robot system installation must meet the operating environment requirements
shown in
Table 3-1 .
3.5 Mounting the Robot
Mounting Surface
The Adept Cobra s350 robot is designed to be mounted on a smooth, flat, level tabletop.
The mounting structure must be rigid enough to prevent vibration and flexing during
robot operation. Adept recommends a 25 mm (1 in.) thick steel plate mounted to a rigid
tube frame. Excessive vibration or mounting flexure will degrade robot performance.
Figure 3-2 shows the mounting hole pattern for the Adept Cobra s350 robots.
NOTE: On the under side of the base there are two holes that can be used
as locating points for user-installed dowel pins in the mounting surface;
see
Figure 3-2 . Using locating pins could improve the ability to remove
and reinstall the robot in the same position.
The Adept Cobra s350 robot can be mounted on a moving platform with proper attention
paid to adequately support the robot cabling. The motor/encoder cable connecting the
robot to the MB-40R is not designed to withstand repeated bending operations and has a
minimum recommended bend radius of 200mm. The connectors on this cable are not
designed to support any dynamic forces and Adept always advises users to support the
weight of the cable with external supports and tiedowns. Any additional user cabling
should be installed with user-designed cabling supports and not use these motor/encoder
connectors as attachment points for auxiliary cabling.
Table 3-1. Robot System Operating Environment Requirements
Ambient temperature 5°C to 40°C (41°F to 104°F)
Humidity 5 to 90%, noncondensing
Altitude up to 2000 m (6500 ft.)
Pollution degree 2 (IEC 1131-2/EN 61131-2)
Robot protection class IP20 (
NEMA
Type 1)
Note : See Section 9.1 on page 85 for robot dimensions.