Livingston & Company WELDWISE 2400, User Manual

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Identifying and Interpreting Accept Status Codes
The main operating display for the weld monitor provides a quick view of the ongoing status of the
welding operation. The
Accept Status codes, displayed at several points in the program, indicate the
nature of any rejected welds, including the parameters that were out of tolerance according to the limits
defined by the current signature. For each
Accept Status code, the weld monitor can display a text
description indicating the parameters that were not within master tolerance limits. You can track and
interpret this information from the stored database values that are logged during weld monitoring.
Advanced users can convert the Accept Status decimal numeric value into a binary value that signifies
the parameters that failed and whether the failure was higher or lower than the tolerance threshold.
To convert an Accept Status code:
1. Enter the value of the code into a
calculator that can handle decimal-to-
binary conversion (such as the
Windows calculator application). For
example, figure 11-3 shows a decimal
value of 260 for the status code:
2. Change the display view from decimal
to binary. The equivalent binary value
appears (100000100), as shown in
figure 11-4:
3. Counting from the right (starting at 0),
bit positions 2 and 9 indicate failures.
Consult the table on the following page
to identify the failed parameter.
The following table maps bit positions to
failures. A binary "1" will appear in each
position where there is an associated
failure. From the previous example, bit
positions 2 and 9 indicate
CURRENTPEAK_HI and FORCE_HI
failures. In other words, peak current and
force were outside of their master
tolerance limits.
Figure 11-3
Figure 11-4